Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Continued mechanical woes opens up 2 finish lead for McLaughlin, his team and Volvo.

Sunday 3 May 2015

Continued mechanical woes opens up 2 finish lead for McLaughlin, his team and Volvo.

Scott McLaughlin picked up his 7th last-place finish of his career when his #33 Wilson Security/Valvoline Volvo retired with throttle issues after 11 of the race's 25 laps. The finish came in McLaughlin's 35th round start, and gives McLaughlin, Gary Rodgers Motorsports and Volvo a 2 last place finish lead over the rest of the field in the Driver's, Team's and Manufacturer's championship, respectively.

Ashley Walsh in the #4 Starlight Foundation/Repsol Mercedes started the race in the rear of the field. In a continuation of the horror start to the year Scott McLaughlin and his teammate David Wall have McLaughlin retired from the race on lap 11, citing problems with the throttle cable, dropping McLaughlin to the rear of the field.

Rounding out the bottom five was Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Darrel Lea STIX Holden, Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution/GB Galvanising Holden, David Wall in the #34 Wilson Security/Valvoline Volvo and Scott Pye in the #17 MTU Detroit Diesel Ford.

The bottom five

Scott Mclaughlin	11 Laps	Throttle
Shane Van Gisbergen	25 Laps	Running
Tim Blanchard	25 Laps	Running
David Wall	25 Laps	Running
Scott Pye	25 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, Walkinshaw Racing: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo: 4

Mercedes: 2

Ford, Holden: 1

*I didn't see either race 7 or race 8 so sorry for the lackluster report.

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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.