Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Dale Wood takes out championship as a Water Pump failure nets Caruso last in another storm-hit race

Sunday 7 December 2014

Dale Wood takes out championship as a Water Pump failure nets Caruso last in another storm-hit race

Michael Caruso picked up his 6^th last-place finish of his career when his #36 Norton Hornet broke a Water Pump after 6 of the storm-shortened race's 44 laps. The finish came in Caruso's 101^st start.

Todd Kelly in the #7 Jack Daniel's Nissan started the race in the rear. For the third race in a row, turn 1 lap 1 sent a car to the rear, in this case it was Mark Winterbottom in the #5 Pepsi Max Ford. Over the course of the next 8 laps, Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Racing Holden, then Tim Slade in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden, Dale Wood in the #21 ADVAM/GB Holden and finally Michael Caruso in the #36 Norton Hornet fell to the rear in turn, eventually Caruso held last after pulling into the garage with a broken Water Pump. Next to fall out was Robert Dahlgren in his final start in the #34 Valvoline Volvo, who crashed out on lap 29. The caar got back out and, had the raace run full distance, Dahlgren would have been classified however, as the race was shortened, Dahlgren completed an insufficent number of laps to be classified.

Rounding out the bottom five is the 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR Champion Dale Wood in the #21 ADVAM/GB Holden, Jack Perkins in the #18 Jeld-Wen Ford in his final race for Charlie Scherwkolt racing and David Wall in the #17 Wilson Security Holden.

Other 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR Championship stats.

Holden has taken out the 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR Manufacturer's championship with 21 last-place finishes.
Dick Johnson Racing has taken out the 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR Team's championship with an average (including Marcos Ambrose with zero last-place finishes) of 2.67 last-place finishes per driver.

The bottom five

Michael Caruso	6 Laps	Water Pump
Robert Dahlgren	29 Laps	Crash
Dale Wood (champion)	43 Laps	Running
Jack Perkins	43 Laps	Running
David Wall	43 Laps	Running

Manufacturer Standings:

Holden: 21

Nissan: 9

Ford: 8

Volvo: 4

Mercedes: 2

Driver Standings:

Dale Wood: 5

Todd Kelly, Tim Slade, Scott Pye, David Wall: 4

David Reynolds, Robert Dahlgren, James Moffat: 3

Jack Perkins, Shane Van Gisbergen, Michael Caruso: 2

Nick Percat, Garth Tander, Scott McLaughlin, Will Davison, Craig Lowndes, Chris Pither, James Courtney, Greg Murphy, Lee Holdsworth, Craig Baird: 1

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How Juniorgeneric defines a Last-Place finisher

Australian V8 LASTCAR'S Official Definition of a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF)

For the purposes of the Australian V8 LASTCAR championship rankings and statistics, a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF) is a driver(s) who, after qualifying for a V8 Supercars Championship Points-Paying race, the result must be confirmed from official sources, or unofficial sources failing that. Only one driver (or two in a endurance race) can be classified as the LPF for that race.

Meeting those requirements, the LPF can be any driver classified as such for any reason, including, but not limited to.
1) A "did not start" although it should be noted that there is a difference between my definition of "did not start" and Brock Beard's definition of "Did not Start".
For example, in Bathurst 2015 Chazz Mostert and Cameron Waters' #6 Pepsi Max Ford had a huge accident during practice that injured Mostert and all but wrote off the car. Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last. Under Brock Beard's definition, however, Mostert and Waters would have finished last instead of David Wall and Chris Pither.
2) An entrant who encounters an event once the race has started which prevents the driver(s) from finishing ahead of any other qualified entrants, including both DNFs and drivers who finish under power but laps down*

*Only when all the cars in the race are running ahead of the LPF

3) A decision to “start and park” the driver’s entry (Extremely rare in V8 Supercars)
(4) a disqualification handed down by V8 Supercars and/or track officials that subsequently classifies the driver(s) in the final position behind the unofficial LPF.

Australian V8 LASTCAR shall not consider the LPF as anything else, including but not limited too
1) Any DNQ's
2) Any driver's who's car withdrew before the race start.
3)The lowest-ranked driver who finishes the race under power (unless all cars finished under power, actually quite common in V8 Supercars)
4) A driver(s) who finished last initially, however post-race disqualifications usurped the spot.
5) A driver(s) who may be catagorised as finishing last for exhibition events (I may bring these back at some point in the near future, I need more accurate numbers for the events before I start them up again)
6) Anything in non-V8 Supercar Main game (again, insufficent historical data)
7) A driver who was running last when the checkered flag fell, however because they greeted the checkered flag but a drive who was in front of them at the end of the race, however was not running at the end of the race. In that instance the driver who doesn't finish the race will fall behind the driver whom is still running at the end of the race.

In the rare event where official results or a preponderance of unofficial results are later updated with more accurate information about who was the LPF for that event, Australian V8 LASTCAR rankings and statistics shall be updated to reflect that change.