Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Post-Race Exclusion keeps Bright out of last at Ipswich.

Sunday 2 August 2015

Post-Race Exclusion keeps Bright out of last at Ipswich.

James Moffat picked up his 8^th last-place finish of his career when his #99 Toshiba/Nismo Nissan was disqualified post-race after an engine irregularity after -20 of the race's 20 laps. The finish came in Moffat's 70th round start.

Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden started the race in the rear after troubles in Qualifying. At the first corner, Dale Wood in the #21 turned Todd Kelly in the #7 Jayco Nissan, among other cars involved in the resulting concertina included Jason Bright as well as David Wall in the #34 Wilson Security/Payce/Valvoline Volvo, damaging both cars, ending Bright's race and knocking him to last, while Wall came home 2 laps down in 23rd.

Splitting Bright and Wall was Scott Pye in the #17 Western Star Trucks Holden, who retired with a broken Oil Cooler after 10 laps. Rounding out the bottom five was Dale Wood in the #21 GB Galvanising/ADVAM Holden. Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution/GB Galvanizing Holden was originally in the bottom five, however when James Moffat's #99 Toshiba/Nismo Nissan was found to have an engine irregularity, Moffat was excluded from both race 1 and race 2, elevating Blanchard out of the bottom five.

The bottom five

James Moffat	-20 Laps	Excluded
Jason Bright	0 Laps	Crash
Scott Pye	10 Laps	Oil Cooler
David Wall	18 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	20 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 5

Andre Heimgartner, Ashley Walsh: 2

Will Davison, David Wall, Garth Tander, Lee Holdsworth, Chazz Mostert, Fabian Coulthard, Nick Percat, James Moffat: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 6

Erebus Motorsport: 3

Super Black Racing: 2

Holden Racing Team, Charlie Schwerkolt Racing, Prodrive Racing Australia, Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports, Brad Jones Racing, Nissan Motorsports: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo: 6

Holden: 4

Ford, Mercedes: 3

Nissan: 1

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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.