Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Nissan clean-sweeps last at Ipswich as Todd Kelly's engine fails in final race.

Sunday 2 August 2015

Nissan clean-sweeps last at Ipswich as Todd Kelly's engine fails in final race.

Todd Kelly picked up his 23^rd last-place finish of his career when his #7 Jayco Nissan retired with Engine failure after 61 of the race's 65 laps. The finish came in Todd's 216^th round start, and leaves Nissan with a clean sweep of last at Queensland raceway.

Tim Slade started the race in the rear in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden, however by the end of lap 1 Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution/GB Galvanizing Holden had fallen to the rear, and the first to lose a lap on lap 9. However, Blanchard got his lap back after the first round of pit-stops. Then on lap 22 Dale Wood in the #21 ADVAM/GB Galvanising Holden copped a drive-through penalty for an unsafe pit-lane release, dropping him to the rear.

Wood held last until lap 30 when Jamie Whincup in the #1 Red Bull Holden had a drama in the pit-lane, dropping him briefly to the rear, with Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Darrell Lea STIX Holden falling to the rear. By the end of the second round of pit-stops, Dale Wood had returned to last, dropping a lap with about 10 laps to go and where Wood stayed until three laps to go when Todd Kelly in the #7 Jayco Nissan suffered Engine Failure, dropping him to the rear of the field. Todd Kelly was so angry he went on a 30-second swearing spree where, literally, every other word was a f*** or f*** with additions.

Rounding out the bottom five was Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution/GB Galvanising Holden after a late-race drive-through penalty, Ashley Walsh in the #4 Infant's Friend/3M/Repsol Mercedes and Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Darrell Lea STIX Holden

The bottom five

Todd Kelly	61 Laps	Engine
Dale Wood	64 Laps	Running
Tim Blanchard	64 Laps	Running
Ashley Walsh	64 Laps	Running
Shane Van Gisbergen	65 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 5

Andre Heimgartner, Ashley Walsh, Nick Percat, James Moffat: 2

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

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 6

Erebus Motorsport: 3

Super Black Racing, Brad Jones Racing, Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports, Nissan Motorsports: 2

Holden Racing Team, Charlie Schwerkolt Racing, Prodrive Racing Australia, Jack Daniel's Racing: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo, Holden: 6

Ford, Mercedes, Nissan: 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.