Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Defending champ gets a Last-Place finish for 2015.

Sunday 3 May 2015

Defending champ gets a Last-Place finish for 2015.

*All drivers who finish under power are scored ahead of all driver's who failed to finish the race.

Defending 2014 Australian V8 LASTCAR champion Scott Pye picked up his 10^th last-place finish of his career after his #17 Detroit Diesel Holden was taken out in a 2 car accident after 78 of the race's 83 laps. The finish came in Pye's 32^nd round start.

Lee Holdsworth started the race in the rear in the #18 Fuchs/Walkinshaw/Beko Holden, but by lap 6 Dale Wood in the #21 ADVAM/Wilson Security Holden had fallen to the rear. On lap 11, starting pit-stops put Jason Bright in the #8 BOC/Summit Holden to the rear, dropping a lap in the process. On lap 18, Dale Wood returned to the rear of the field approaching the completion of the first round of pitstops.

On lap 23, disaster struck for Tim Slade in the #300 Supercheap Auto Holden suffered a left-rear suspension failure, forcing the #47 to the garage and dropping him last place Slade returned to the track on lap 37, 14 laps down and in last place. So as of Lap 37 all 25 cars were still running, which isn't unusual in the V8 Supercars. Slade wound eventually finish 23^rd.

Just when it looked like all 25 cars were going to finish, on lap 79 Scott Pye in the #17 MTU Detroit Diesel Holden collided with Andrew Heimgartner in the #111 Only Domains Ford crashed out at turn 1. As Pye was behind Heimgartner at the time of the crash, Pye was credited with the last-place finish.

Rounding out the bottom five was Ash Walsh in the #4 Starlight Foundation/Repsol Mercedes after bringing out the first Safety car of the race on lap 49, after spinning off the road at turn 6 and dropping him 6 laps down to the leaders and David Wall in the #34 Wilson Security Volvo who finished a lap down to the leaders.

The bottom five

Scott Pye	78 Laps	Crash
Andre Heimgartner	78 Laps	Crash
Tim Slade	69 Laps	Running
Ashley Walsh	77 Laps	Running
David Wall	82 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 3

Will Davison Ashley Walsh, Andre Heimgartner, David Wall, Garth Tander: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 4

Erebus Motorsports: 2

Super Black Racing, Holden Racing Team: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo: 4

Mercedes: 2

Ford, Holden: 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.