Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Erebus firms for Team's Championship after first-lap crash leaves Davison last at Auckland

Sunday 8 November 2015

Erebus firms for Team's Championship after first-lap crash leaves Davison last at Auckland

Will Davison picked up his 12th last-place finish of his career when his #9 Penrite Mercerdes was taken out in a 3-car pileup without completing a single lap of the first race at Auckland. The finish came in Davison's 149th round start.

Nick Percat in the #222 OPS Gateway Australia Holden started the race in the rear, however at turn 6 Will Davison in the #9 Penrite Mercedes was spun around by Tim Slade in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden, then collected by Fabian Coulthard in the #14 Freightliner Holden, damaging both cars and forcing Davison to the rear. The only other retirement of the race was Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden who suffered engine failure on the second-to-final lap, dropping him to 24th.

Rounding out the bottom five was Fabian Coulthard in the #14 Freightliner Holden after the collision with Will Davison, Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Holden and Dale Wood in the #21 GB Galvanising/ADVAM Holden after a mechanical black flag for loose bodywork.

The Bottom Five

Will Davison	0 Laps	Crash
Jason Bright	19 Laps	Engine
Fabian Coulthard	20 Laps	Running
Tim Blanchard	21 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	21 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 5

Ashley Walsh, James Moffat, Nick Percat: 3

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

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

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 7

Erebus Motorsport: 6

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

Mercedes: 6

Nissan: 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.