Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: BOC Racing fuming after Slade finishes last at Adelaide.

Sunday 6 March 2016

BOC Racing fuming after Slade finishes last at Adelaide.

Tim Slade picked up his 6th last-place finish of his career when his #14 Freightliner Holden stalled at the entrance of turn nine after 12 of the race's 39 laps. The finish came in Slade's 218th race start.

Aaren Russell started the race in the rear in the #4 Plus Fitness/Penrite Holden, and almost immediately Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden fell to the rear, with Holdsworth in the #18 Preston Hire Holden got spun to last in turn 6. Holdsworth held it until lap 5 when last-place was shared by Chazz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto Holden on lap 5, Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden on lap 6, then Nick Percat in the #222 SP Tools/Torini Holden on lap 10.

Suddenly on lap 12 Tim Slade in the #14 Freightliner Holden stopped at the entrance of Turn 9, with the Gearbox unable to engage reverse gear, triggering the only Safety Car of the race and dropping Slade to the rear of the field.

Rounding out the bottom five was Aaren Russell in the #4 Plus Fitness/Penrite Holden, Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden, Lee Holdsworth in the #18 Preston Hire Holden and Andre Heimgarnter in the #3 SP Tools/Torini Holden.

The Bottom Five

Tim Slade	12 Laps	Stalled
Aaren Russell	39 Laps	Running
Tim Blanchard	39 Laps	Running
Lee Holdsworth	39 Laps	Running
Andre Heimgartner	39 Laps	Running

2016 Australian V8 LASTCAR Standings

Driver's Championship

Tim Slade: 1

Team's Championship

BOC Racing: 1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Holden: 1

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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.