Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Several Engine failures finally leaves Todd last at Albert Park

Monday 21 March 2016

Several Engine failures finally leaves Todd last at Albert Park

Todd Kelly picked up his 3^rd last-place finish at Albert Park when his #7 Carsales.com Nissan retired with Engine issues before the start of the third race at Albert Park.

Just before the start of the race Todd Kelly’s #7 Carsales.com Nissan started billowing smoke out of the back of the #7, and as the rest of the field started the race Todd Kelly was in the garage.

Next to fall out was Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden who after running wide on the second lap tangled with Andre Heimgartner in the #3 SP Tools/Torini Holden, James Moffat in the #34 Valvoline/Wilson Security Volvo and Dale Wood in the #96 GB Galvanising/ADVAM Nissan severely damaging both cars #8 and #34, putting Bright out of the race and both Bright and Moffat in the bottom five.

Splitting Bright and Moffat in the final order was the final car out of the race, Scott McLaughlin in the #33 Valvoline/Wilson Security Volvo after a sudden loss of Oil Pressure caused him to spear off the road on lap 6. Rounding out the bottom five was Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy/Castrol Ford after a Drive-through penalty for contact with Will Dasvison in the #19 Darrell Lea STIX Holden.

The Bottom Five

Todd Kelly	0 Laps	Engine
Jason Bright	1 Lap	Crash
Scott McLaughlin	5 Laps	Oil Pressure
James Moffat	9 Laps	Running
Cameron Waters	12 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.