Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Walsh emerges as potential challenger after last-place at Eastern Creek.

Sunday 23 August 2015

Walsh emerges as potential challenger after last-place at Eastern Creek.

Ashley Walsh picked up his 6^th last-place finish of his career when his #4 3M Mercedes finished under power, on the lead lap in the first race at Sydney Motorsport Park, formerly known as Eastern Creek. The finish came in Walsh's 13^th round start.

Garth Tander in the #2 SP Tools Holden started the race in the rear after a crank sensor issue left Tander with only a slow first lap as a qualifying time.

By turn 1 Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution/GB Galvnising Holden had fallen behind Tander, then on lap 4 Dale Wood in the #21 ADVAM/GB Galvanising Holden was turned around by Nick Percat in the #222 Repair Management Australia Holden, dropping Wood to the rear. By lap 7 however Ashley Walsh in the #4 3M Mercedes fell to the rear, where he stayed for the remainder of the race.

Rounding out the bottom five was Dale Wood in the #21 ADVAM/GB Galvanising Holden, Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution/GB Galvnising Holden, David Wall in the #34 Wilson Security/Payce/Valvoline and Nick Percat in the #222 Repair Management Australia Holden.

Garth Tander finished 18th.

The bottom five

Ashley Walsh	16 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	16 Laps	Running
Tim Blanchard	16 Laps	Running
David Wall	16 Laps	Running
Nick Percat	16 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 5

Ashley Walsh: 3

Andre Heimgartner, 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: 4

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

Mercedes: 4

Ford, 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.