Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Scott McLaughlin Last as "Warming Up" Takes a more literal tone.

Sunday 1 March 2015

Scott McLaughlin Last as "Warming Up" Takes a more literal tone.

Scott McLaughlin picked up his 5th Last-Place finish of his career when his #33 Valvoline/Wilson Security Volvo retired with an Oil Pump failure on the warm-up lap of the first race of the 2015 Australian V8 LASTCAR series at the Clipsal 500. The finish came in McLaughlin's 32nd round start, and his first last-place finish in more than a year.

While Scott McLaughlin was warming up the tires on his #33 Valvoline/Wilson Security Volvo, the Oil Pump failed, leading to a spin between turns 3 and 4 and bumping the wall. The resulting fire prevented McLaughlin from making a single lap in the race, leaving McLaughlin last.

Rounding out the bottom five was Will Davison in the #9 Solar Erebus Mercedes who's car shut down suddenly on lap 29 due to an engine issue, Andre Heimgartner in the unsponsored #111 Super Black Racing ford, who was part of a three-car incident with fellow bottom five member Dale Wood in the #21 GB Galvanising Holden who was relegated to the bottom five after a post-race penalty and Ash Walsh in the unsponsored #4 Erebus Mercedes, who finished out of the bottom five. Michael Caruso in the #36 Nismo Nissan completed the bottom five after an early-race tire failure.

Australian V8 LASTCAR statistics

This is Scott McLaighlin's first last-place finish since the first race at Homebush in 2013, where McLaughlin retired with a drive-line failure after 10 of the race's 74 laps.

The Bottom Five

Scott McLaughlin	0 Laps	Did not Start
Will Davison	28 Laps	Engine
Andre Heimgartner	32 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	33 Laps	Running
Michael Caruso	33 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports (2 drivers, 1 last-place finish): 0.5

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo: 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.