Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Post-race exclusion leaves Walsh and LeBrocq last at Surfer's Paradise.

Monday 26 October 2015

Post-race exclusion leaves Walsh and LeBrocq last at Surfer's Paradise.

Ashley Walsh picked up his 7^th last-place finish of his career, while Jack LeBrocq picked up his 1^st last-place finish of his career, when they #4 Wendy's Mercedes was excluded post-race for a tire pressure violation after -102 of the race's 102 laps. The finish came in Walsh's 17^th round start and LeBrocq's 1^st start.

Macauley Jones started the race in last in the #21 GB Galvanizing/ADVAM Holden, however before the end of the first lap Jack LeBrocq in the #4 Wendy's Mercedes fell to the rear with a rear suspension failure, heading to the garage on lap 2 and dropping 8 Laps.

The first retirees of the race was Chris Pither and David Wall in the #34 Wilson Security/Valvoline Volvo, with Pither at the wheel at the time, when Ant Pedersen in the unsponsored #111 Super Black Racing Ford turned in on him, sending car #34 into the inside wall, then both cars into the outside wall. Although Pedersen was able to continue, car #34's day was done, and they dropped behind Walsh and LeBrocq on lap 15 and lost four more lap on lap 41 leaving Walsh and LeBrocq fourteen laps down at the finish. However, Walsh and LeBrocq was excluded post-race for a tire pressure violation, elevating Pither and Wall to 24^th.

Rounding out the bottom five is Jason Bright and Andrew Jones in the #8 BOC Holden when Bright clobbered the tires twice in the 6-7-8-9-10 chicane complex, dropping laps both times and Tim Blanchard and Karl Reindler in the #3 Cooldrive Holden after the window net fell off on two separate occasions, forcing lengthy pitstops to re-attach.

Australian V8 LASTCAR notes

This is what I'm talking about when a team is disqualified post-race, Wall and Pither do not add to their last-place totals but Walsh's and LeBrocq's are added to.

The Bottom Five

Ashley Walsh/Jack Lebrocq	-102 Laps	Excluded
David Wall/Chris Pither	6 Laps	Crash
Ashley Walsh/Jack LeBrocq	88 Laps	Running
Jason Bright/Andrew Jones	97 Laps	Running
Tim Blanchard/Karl Reindler	101 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 5

Ashley Walsh, James Moffat, Nick Percat: 3

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

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

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 7

Erebus Motorsport: 5

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, Mercedes: 5

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.