Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Late-Race collision leaves Holdworth and Bourdais last at Surfer's Paradise

Monday 26 October 2015

Late-Race collision leaves Holdworth and Bourdais last at Surfer's Paradise

Lee Holdsworth picked up his 8th last-place finish of his career, while Sebastien Bourdais picked up his 1st last-place finish of his career, when their #18 FUCHS/BEKO/Preston Hire Holden was involved in a 3-car crash that ended his race after 88 of the race's 102 laps. The finish came in Holdsworth's 151st round start, and Bourdais' 6th round start.

Ashley Walsh and Jack LeBrocq in the #4 Wendy's Erebus Mercedes started the race in the rear, with everybody tripping the first kerb hop on the first lap. On lap 3 Ant Pedersen in the unsponsored #111 Super Black Racing Ford fell to the rear, then on lap 4 Paul Dumbrell in the #1 Red Bull Racing Holden collided with Taz Douglas in the #99 Mack Trucks Nissan, damaging the splitter mountings on car #1, dropping 12 Laps in repairs and falling to the ear. On lap 35 diaster struck for Mark Winterbottom in the #5 Pepsi Max Ford when he collided with Garth Tander in the #2 SP Tools Holden, heavily damaging the suspension on car #5 and dropping to last on lap 51. Whincup and Winterbottom continued to tussle for last until the restart on lap 88, when Tim Slade in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden was spun out by Will Davison in the #9 Penrite Mercedes, then was collected by Lee Holdsworth in the #18 FUCHS/- Holden, forcing car #18 to the garage and out of the race, falling to last post-race.

Rounding out the bottom five is Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden who's #8 had a hole punched in the radiator of car #8, forcing Bright to the garage and losing 12 laps, Scott McLaughlin in the #33 Wilson Security/Valvoline who on lap 60 suffered a Power Steering failure, forcing the car to the garage and dropping 11 laps, dropping him to 22nd and Scott McLaughlin in the #33 Wilson Security/Valvoline Volvo who suffered a Power Steering failure just past half-way, dropping 11 laps.

As a post-note, after finishing the race first, Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 STIX Holden spent so long doing a burnout that he was the 24th and final car to return to the pit-lane.

The Bottom Five

Lee Holdsworth/Sebastien Bourdais	88 Laps	Crash
Jamie Whincup/Paul Dumbrell	87 Laps	Running
Mark Winterbottom/Steve Owen	88 Laps	Running
Jason Bright/Andrew Jones	89 Laps	Running
Scott McLaughlin/Alexandre Premat	91 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 5

Ashley Walsh, James Moffat, Nick Percat: 3

Andre Heimgartner, Todd Kelly, David Wall, Lee Holdsworth: 2

Will Davison, Garth Tander, Chazz Mostert, Fabian Coulthard, Jason Bright, Chris Pither, Sebastien Bourdais: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 7

Erebus Motorsport: 4

Nissan Motorsports. Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports: 3

Super Black Racing, Brad Jones Racing, Jack Daniel's Racing, Charlie Schwerkolt Racing: 2

Holden Racing Team, Prodrive Racing Australia: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Holden: 8

Volvo: 7

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.