Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: McLaughlin seals title after Blanchard finishes last at Homebush

Monday 7 December 2015

McLaughlin seals title after Blanchard finishes last at Homebush

Tim Blanchard picked up his 2^nd last-place finish of his career when his #3 Cooldrive Holden finished under power, 5 laps down in the first race at Homebush at Sydney. The finish came in Blanchard's 36^th race start.

Craig Lowndes started the race in the rear after a qualifying crash in the #888 Red Bull Racing Australia Holden, however contact on the first corner of the first lap put James Mofatt in the #99 Faresin Nissan collided with Jamie Whincup in the #1 Red Bull Racing Australia Holden, damaging the steering on Moffat's car and sending car #99 to the rear, 2 laps down.

Moffat stayed in last until lap 19 when Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Holden headed to the garage with engine issues on lap 19, dropping to the rear on lap 22. Blanchard returned to the track in lap 24, 4 laps down.

Rounding out the bottom five was Chris Pither in the unsponsored #111 Super Black Racing Holden, who dropped a lap late in the race, Garth Tander in the #2 - Holden pitted a second time on lap 9 with a right-rear wheel nut failure and Alex Davison in the #4 Wendy's Mercedes.

Statistics

With Nick Percat not participating in the final round, Scott Mclaughlin has taken out the 2015 Australian V8 LASTCAR Driver's Championship. Additionally, Gary Rodgers Motorsport has taken out the 2015 Australian V8 LASTCAR Team's Championship, with McLaughlin on 6 last-place finishes and David Wall on 2 last-place finishes.

The Bottom Five

Tim Blanchard	32 Laps	Running
James Moffat	34 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	36 Laps	Running
Garth Tander	37 Laps	Running
Alex Davison	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: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 8 (Team's champion)

Erebus Motorsport: 5

Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports: 4

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, Rod Nash Racing/Prodrive Racing Australia: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Holden: 10 (Manufacturer's champion)

Volvo: 8

Mercedes: 6

Nissan: 5

Ford: 4

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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.