Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Rough weekend ends with last-place for Percat in Auckland finale

Sunday 8 November 2015

Rough weekend ends with last-place for Percat in Auckland finale

Nick Percat picked up his 5th last-place finish of his career when his #222 OPS Gateway Holden was involved in a crash that ended his race after 6 of the race's 69 laps. The finish came in Percat's 37th start, and moves Percat into 2nd for the Australian V8 LASTCAR Championship, 1 finish behind Scott McLaughlin.

The field returned to 25 cars, with Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden was repaired in time to start race 3, along with previous race last-place finisher Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Racing Australia Holden.

In the race itself Dale Wood started the race in the rear in the #21 GB Galvnizing/ADVAM Holden, but by the end of lap 2 Mark Winterbottom in the #5 Pepsi Max Ford was spun around, dropping to the rear. Then, by lap 5 Andre Heimgartner in the unsponsored #111 Super Black Racing Ford fell to the rear, with David Wall in the #34 Wilson Security/Valvoline Volvo dropped to the rear.

On lap 8 Nick Percat in the #222 OPS Australia Holden was around at turn 8, with major damage to the side of his car, triggering the only safety car of the race and dropping him to the rear, the only retirement of the race. Ashley Walsh in the #10 10 Tenths Mercedes pulled into the pit-lane on lap 63 with an overheating engine, but managed to continue and finish 24th, 2 laps down.

Rounding out the bottom five was Tim Slade in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden after he exceeded the pit-lane speed limit on lap 35, copping a Drive-Through penalty and dropping him into the bottom five, a lap down, Cameron Waters in the #6 Pepsi Max Ford went three-wide with Garth Tander in the #2 SP Tools Holden and James Courtney in the #22 SP Tools Holden, spinning the latter and copping a drive-through penalty that dropped him into the bottom five, also a lap down and Andre Heimgartner in the unsponsored #111 Super Black Racing Ford.

The Bottom Five

Nick Percat	6 Laps	Crash
Ashley Walsh	67 Laps	Running
Tim Slade	68 Laps	Running
Cameron Waters	68 Laps	Running
Andre Heimgartner	68 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 5

Nick Percat: 3

Ashley Walsh, James Moffat: 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, Craig Lowndes: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 7

Erebus Motorsport: 6

Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports: 3

Nissan Motorsports: 3

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

Holden Racing Team, Prodrive Racing Australia, Red Bull Racing Australia: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Holden: 10

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.