Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Mosert's no last-place finish streak ends in the tires in final race at Winton

Sunday 17 May 2015

Mosert's no last-place finish streak ends in the tires in final race at Winton

Chazz Mostert picked up his 1^st last-place finish of his career, his no-last place finish streak broken at 77 races, when his #6 Pepsi Max Australia Ford finished under power, 4 laps down in the final race at Winton. The finish came in Mostert's 31^st round start.

Dale Wood started the race in the rear in the #21 Galvanising/Advam Holden, but rookie Andre Heimgartner in the #111 Only Domains Ford stalled at race start, dropping him to the rear. David Wall in the #34 Wilson Security/Valvoline Volvo pitted on lap 2, dropping him to the rear. On lap 7 Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cool Drive Distribution/GB Galvanising. On lap 11, Rick Kelly in the #15 Jacck Daniel's Nissan had problems with a wheel nut in the pit-lane, dropping Rick to the rear. A second pit-stop on lap 30 dropped Rick a lap down. On lap 33, disaster struck for the then-race leader Chazz Mostert in the #6 Pepsi Max Ford.

Coming out of turn 3, Mostert dropped a wheel in the dirt, then crashed into the tyre wall in turn 4 while leading, bringing out the only caution of the race. The crash dropped Mostert 2 laps down and into last-place.

Rounding out the bottom five is Will Davison in the #9 Solar Australia Erebus, who had to pit twice in the only safety car period to reach the minimum fuel limit, Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 STIX Holden, Ashley Walsh in the #4 Starlight Foundation/Repsol Mercedes and Dale Wood in the #21 Galvanising/Advam Holden.

The bottom five

Chazz Mostert	63 Laps	Running
Will Davison	67 Laps	Running
Shane Van Gisbergen	67 Laps	Running
Ashley Walsh	67 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	67 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 4

Will Davison Ashley Walsh, Andre Heimgartner, David Wall, Garth Tander, Lee Holdsworth, Chazz Mostert: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 5

Erebus Motorsports: 2

Super Black Racing, Holden Racing Team, Charlie Schwerkolt Racing, Prodrive Racing Australia: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo: 5

Mercedes, Holden, Ford: 2

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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.