Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: David Wall moves into second after missing the pits for wets results in last-place at storm-hit H

Sunday 7 December 2014

David Wall moves into second after missing the pits for wets results in last-place at storm-hit H

David Wall picked up his 8th last-place finish of his career when his #17 Wilson Security Holden crashed out after 16 of the storm shortened race's 23 laps. The finish came in Wall's 47th start, and moves Wall into a 4-way tie for 2nd on the 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR Championship.

On the first corner of the first lap, Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Racing holden spun out Marcos Ambrose in the #66 Xbox ford, with Jack Perkins in the #18 Jeld-Wen ford also suffering damage in the incident. This dropped Ambrose to the rear of the field. With the threat of rain, firstly, Todd Kelly in the #7 Jack Daniel's racing Nissan, then Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Racing Holden, then Jack Perkins in the #18 Jeld-Wen ford fell to the rear. On lap 17, the storms came and David Wall in the #17 Wilson Security holden stayed out on the track on slick tires and with no grip, crashed repeatedly, until he stopped on the back straight between turns 8 and 9.

Rounding out the bottom five was Russell Ingall in the #23 Repair Management Australia Holden who finished 1 lap down to the leaders, Lee Holdsworth in the #4 Beko/Fuchs Mercedes who pitted on the final lap, Todd Kelly in the #7 Jack Daniel's Nissan and Jack Perkins in the #18 Jeld-Wen ford in his final round start for Charlie Scherwkolt racing.

The bottom five

David Wall	16 Laps	Crash
Russell Ingall	22 Laps	Running
Lee Holdsworth	23 Laps	Running
Todd Kelly	23 Laps	Running
Jack Perkins	23 Laps	Running

Manufacturer Standings:

Holden: 21

Ford, Nissan: 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: 2

Nick Percat, Garth Tander, Scott McLaughlin, Will Davison, Craig Lowndes, Michael Caruso, 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.