Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Davison blamed by Percat for multi-car crash that left Heimgartner last at Darwin

Sunday 21 June 2015

Davison blamed by Percat for multi-car crash that left Heimgartner last at Darwin


The entire bottom five are present in this shot.

Andre Heimgartner picked up his 2^nd last-place finish of his career when his unsponsored #111 Super Black Racing Ford was in a seven-car collision that ended his race without completing a single lap of the 14^th race of the season. The finish came in Heimgartner's 6^th round start.

Fabian Coulthard in the #14 Freightliner Holden dropped to the rear in turn 1 after he was hit by Rick Kelly in the #15 Jack Daniel's Nissan. The incident, along with a drive-through penalty, left Rick Kelly bookending the bottom five. Near the end of lap 1, Andre Heimgartner in the unsponsored #111 Super Black Racing Holden was spun by Will Davison in thre #9 Solar Energy Mercedes collided with Nick Percat in the #222 Heavy Haulage Australia Holden, Jamie Whincup in the #1 Red Bull Holden, Lee Holdsworth in the #18 Fuchs/Walkinshaw/Beko Holden and Percat's teammate Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution/GB Galvanising Holden, with Percat calling Davison and Whincup a "tool", and threatening to punch Davison.

On lap 10 Dale Wood in the #21 ADVAM/GB Galvanising Holden collided with David Wall in the #34 Wilson Security/Valvoline Volvo, damaging Dale Wood's car and dropping him down to 22nd, 2 laps down. Blanchard's retirement was due to engine failure, not crash damage.

Greatest congratulations for Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Racing Holden on 100 race wins.

The bottom five

Andre Heimgartner	0 Laps	Crash
Nick Percat	1 Lap	Crash
Tim Blanchard	9 Laps	Engine
Dale Wood	18 Laps	Running
Rick Kelly	21 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 4

Andre Heimgartner: 2

Will Davison Ashley Walsh, David Wall, Garth Tander, Lee Holdsworth, Chazz Mostert, Fabian Coulthard: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 5

Erebus Motorsport, Super Black Racings: 2

Holden Racing Team, Charlie Schwerkolt Racing, Prodrive Racing Australia, Brad Jones Racing: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo: 5

Holden, Ford: 3

Mercedes: 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.