Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First lap contact leaves Bright last at Albert Park

Monday 21 March 2016

First lap contact leaves Bright last at Albert Park

Jason Bright picked up his second last-place finish at Albert Park when his #8 BOC Holden was involved in a two-car crash that ended his race without completing a single lap of the first non-championship race at Albert Park.

Aaren Russell in the #4 Plus Fitness Holden started the race in the rear, however in the first turn on the first lap Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden was turned by Scott Pye in the #17 – Holden, damaging the nose of Bright’s car. In turn 3, the front bumper bar caught underneath the left-front of the car, causing the car to sail off the road and retiring car #8 from the race.

Next to fall out was Todd Kelly in the #7 Carsales.com Nissan, with car #7 losing an engine at the start of lap 2, triggering the only safety car of the race. Rounding out the bottom five was Nick Percat in the #222 SP Tools Holden, Aaren Russell in the #4 Plus Fitness Holden and Andre Heimgartner in the #3 SP Tools Holden.

The Bottom Five

Jason Bright	0 Laps	Crash
Todd Kelly	1 Lap	Engine
Nick Percat	11 Laps	Running
Aaren Russell	11 Laps	Running
Andre Heimgartner	11 Laps	Running

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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 Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last.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.