Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Defending V8 LASTCAR Scott Pye to race at Launceston

Sunday 22 March 2015

Defending V8 LASTCAR Scott Pye to race at Launceston

After the fourth race at Albert Park, Marcos Ambrose asked to be relieved of his racing duties as he continues to transition back into the main game after 9 years out at NASCAR.

The winner from this, and the driver who replaces Ambrose? The Defending Australian V8 LASTCAR Driver's champion Scott Pye.

At this point, there are only 3 drivers who have last-place finishes. Scott McLaughlin who retired on the warm-up lap after the Oil Pump failed on his #33 Valvoline/Wilson Security Volvo and Eerebus Mercedes teammates Will Davison in the #9 Solar Mercedes, who retired with a Clutch drama before the race began, and Ash Walsh in the unsponsored #4 Mercedes, who retired with engine issues after 22 laps. Scott Pye, discounting the Albert Park races, did not get his first of seven last-place finishes of the season until the third race at Eastern Creek in August, so it is possible that Pye could defend his title.

But we'll see at this weekend's second round at Symmonds Plains, where Todd Kelly, Nick Percat and Garth Tander had last-place finishes last year.

Oh and if anybody is wondering, Marcos Ambrose's solitary last-place finish in the Australian V8 Supercar championship came a decade ago in the 2005 Gillette V8 Supercar Challenge first race, when his #1 Pirtek Ford retired with Clutch dramas after 1 of the race's 31 laps, narrowly beating out Todd Kelly, who retired on the same lap with Oil Line dramas.

Marcos Ambrose will be back at the endurance events at Sandown, Bathurst and Surfer's Paradise.

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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.