Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Moffat charges into a tie for second after Engine expires at Eastern Creek

Sunday 23 August 2015

Moffat charges into a tie for second after Engine expires at Eastern Creek

James Moffat picked up his 10th last-place finish of his career when his #99 Toshiba/Nismo Nissan retired with Engine failure after 42 of the race's shortened 49 laps. The finish came in Moffat's 71st round start, and ties Moffat with Ashley Walsh for 2nd in the driver's Australian V8 LASTCAR Championship.

After a freak accident on Friday left Courtney with broken ribs and punctured lungs and keeping him sidelined for the weekend and likely the next round at Sandown, co-driver Jack Perkins was tabbed to race for Courtney in the #22 SP Tools Holden, starting the third race in the rear, however at turn 9 on the first lap Todd Kelly in the #7 One Steel Reinforcing Nissan collided with David Wall in the #34 Wilson Security/Payce/Valvoline Volvo, breaking the rear suspension on Todd's car and front suspension on Wall's car, Kelly made it across the line first, leaving Wall last until lap 7 when he got back on the track, dropping Todd to last, whom eventually getting back out 10 laps down.

Todd held last until lap 42 when James Moffat in the #99 Toshibo/Nismo Nissan retired with Engine failure on lap 42, dropping Moffat to last post-race as Todd Kelly was running at the end of the race, despite only completing 40 laps.

Dale Wood in the #21 GB Galvnising/ADVAM Holden spun off the track in the rain, bringing out the second safety car of the race and dropping 2 laps down. Rounding out the bottom five was Ashley Walsh in the #4 3M Mercedes.

The Bottom Five

James Moffat	42 Laps	Engine
Todd Kelly	40 Laps	Running
David Wall	43 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	47 Laps	Running
Ashley Walsh	49 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 5

Ashley Walsh, James Moffat: 3

Andre Heimgartner, Nick Percat, 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

Nissan Motorsports: 3

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

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

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo, Holden: 6

Nissan: 5

Mercedes: 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.