Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: 1st lap dramas leaves Todd last at Eastern Creek

Sunday 23 August 2015

1st lap dramas leaves Todd last at Eastern Creek

Todd Kelly picked up his 24th last-place finish of his career when his #7 One Steel Reinforcing Nissan finished under power, 2 laps down in the second race at Eastern Creek. The finish came in Todd's 217th round start.

There were a number of incidents in the first lap. Firstly, Scott Pye in the #17 Man Bus & Truck Aus. Holden was spun around by Michael Caruso in the #23 Nismo Nissan, then Rick Kelly in the #15 Jack Daniel's Nissan was almost spun into the fence by Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden, who was then spun out by Garth Tander in the #2 SP Tools Holden, the melee around that time involved Todd Kelly in the #7 One Steel Reinforcing Nissan and Tim Slade in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden, almost turning Slade and dealing Steering damage to Todd's car, dropping him to the rear of the field. Pye, Kelly and Bright would all wind up in the bottom five after Bright blew out a right-front tire on lap 8 heading into turn 1.

Between Jason Bright and Scott Pye was Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution/GB Galvanizing Holden, while Dale Wood in the #21 ADVAM/GB Galvanising Holden rounded out the bottom five.

The Bottom Five

Todd Kelly	14 Laps	Running
Jason Bright	14 Laps	Running
Tim Blanchard	16 Laps	Running
Scott Pye	16 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	16 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 5

Ashley Walsh: 3

Andre Heimgartner, Nick Percat, James Moffat, Todd Kelly: 2

Will Davison, David Wall, Garth Tander, Lee Holdsworth, Chazz Mostert, Fabian Coulthard, Jason Bright: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 6

Erebus Motorsport: 4

Super Black Racing, Brad Jones Racing, Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports, Nissan Motorsports, Jack Daniel's Racing: 2

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

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo, Holden: 6

Mercedes, Nissan: 4

Ford: 3

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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.