Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Several updates to LASTCAR standing heading into Final Round.

Friday 27 November 2015

Several updates to LASTCAR standing heading into Final Round.

With 1 round left to go, I have gone over several drivers and have found that I have inconsistencies with results and what I reported on.

The first is the first race at Darwin, where I had reported that Fabian Coulthard had picked up his 8th last-place finish of his career. However I have since checked the results and it turns out the Scott McLaughlin was classified as last, moving Scott McLaughlin's last-place total count for the season to six, and the number of last-place finishes acquired by Gary Rodgers Motorsports to 8, and McLaughlin's career last-place finish tally to 10. Additionally, Scott McLaughlin has 7 appearances in the bottom five. The only driver who can claim the title from Scott McLaughlin outright is Nick Percat, however Percat must finish last in all three of the final races at Homebush.

James Moffat and Lee Holdsworth are the only two contenders left for the 2015 Australian LASTCAR championship. Moffat, Holdsworth and Percat all have six appearances in the bottom five, with McLaughlin at seven bottom-five appearances. At least one of Moffat or Holdsworth will be eliminated at the conclusion of the first race, and both will be eliminated if neither finish last.

Scott McLaughlin can wrap up the 2015 Australian V8 LASTCAR championship as early as the conclusion of race 1 if McLaughlin finishes last in the first race and Nick Percat fails to finish in the bottom five.

If none of David Wall, Scott McLaughlin, Will Davison or whomever is going to be running car #4 in the final round of the championship fail to finish last, then Gary Rodgers Motorsport will clinch the 2015 Australian V8 LASTCAR Team's Championship, with the nearest team, Erebus Motorsports, being 2-last place finishes behind Gary Rodgers Motorsports.

Holden has already clinched the Manufacturer's championship for 2015.

So unlike the Australian V8 Supercar Championship, which will go down to the final race, the 2015 Australian V8 LASTCAR Championship could very well be decided in the first race of the final round.

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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.