Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Turn 1 collision leaves Coulthard last at Darwin

Sunday 21 June 2015

Turn 1 collision leaves Coulthard last at Darwin

Fabian Coulthard picked up his 8^th last-place finish of his career when his #14 Freightliner Holden was involved in a two car crash that ended his race without completing a single lap of the 13^th race of the season. The finish came in Coulthard's 131^st start.

David Wall in the #34 Valvoline Volvo started the race in the rear, and in a chaotic race 13, and just at the first corner of the first race, Fabian Coultard in the #14 Freightliner Holden collided with Jamie Whincup in the #1 Red Bull Holden, destroying a rear tire and damaging the suspension on car #14, ending Coultard's race.

During a subsequent crash in turn 6, Scott Mclaughlin in the #33 collided with Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Racing Australia and Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Holden tangled with Will Davison in the #9 Solar Energey Mercedes, ending McLaughlin's race. However, as McLaughlin was higher in the field than Coulthard, last-place was credited to Coulthard.

Despite incidents involving David Reynolds in the #55 Bottle-O Ford's final turn spin, Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden and Andre Heimgartner in the unsponsored #111 Super Black Racing Ford tangling in turn 1 shortly after the first restart, a second spin by Craig Lowndes on lap 15, the resulting fire triggering a second caution flag, Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 STIX Holden, James Courtney in the #22 SP Tools Holden and his team-mate Garth Tander in the #2 SP Tools Holden crash on the second-to-final lap, only James Courtney finished in the bottom five, finishing 23^rd, with the last two of the bottom five holding Andre Heimgartner only after a second off-road excursion on the second-to-last lap and Ash Walsh in the #4 Infant's Friend/Snap-On/Repsol Mercedes.

The Bottom Five

Fabian Coulthard	0 Laps	Crash
Scott McLaughlin	0 Laps	Crash
James Courtney	21 Laps	Running
Andre Heimgartnet	21 Laps	Running
AshleyWalsh	21 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 4

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

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 5

Erebus Motorsports: 2

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

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo: 5

Holden: 3

Mercedes, 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.