Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Engine sensor failure leaves Owen last at Homebush

Monday 7 December 2015

Engine sensor failure leaves Owen last at Homebush

Steve Owen picked up his 8th last-place finish of his career when his #6 Pepsi Max Ford retired with Engine failure after 8 of the race's 27 laps. The finish came in Owen's 98th round start.

Tim Slade in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden started the race in the rear, however by lap 3 Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Holden had fallen to the rear, which he held until lap 8 when Steve Owen in the #6 Pepsi Max Ford fell to the rear, with disaster befalling car #6 on lap 10, ? leaving the car stranded on the exit of turn 1 and triggering the first/only safety car of the race.

The only other retirement of the race was James Moffat in the #99 Faresin Nissan, who crashed over the kerbs in the 2-3-4 chicane on lap 18, tearing the right-front wheel out of car #99, knocking Moffat out of the race. Rounding out the bottom five was Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden, after losing 2 laps with rear suspension issues, Alex Davison in the #4 Wendy's Mercedes and Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Holden.

The Bottom Five

Steve Owen	8 Laps	Engine
James Moffat	17 Laps	Suspension
Jason Bright	35 Laps	Running
Alex Davison	37 Laps	Running
Tim Blanchard	37 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 6 (Driver's Champion)

Nick Percat: 4

Ashley Walsh, James Moffat: 3

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

Garth Tander, Chazz Mostert, Jason Bright, Chris Pither, Sebastien Bourdais, Jack LeBrocq, Craig Lowndes, David Reynolds, Tim Blanchard, Steve Owen: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 8 (Team's champion)

Erebus Motorsport, Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports: 5

Nissan Motorsports: 3

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

Holden Racing Team, Red Bull Racing Australia, Rod Nash Racing/Prodrive Racing Australia: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Holden: 10 (Manufacturer's champion)

Volvo: 8

Mercedes: 6

Nissan, Ford: 5

No comments:

Post a Comment

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.