Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Wet conditions leave rookie Russell last at Adelaide

Sunday 6 March 2016

Wet conditions leave rookie Russell last at Adelaide

Aaren Russell picked up his 1^st last-place finish of his career when his #4 Plus Fitness / Penrite Holden crashed into the turn 8 barrier during the warm-up lap of the shortened 48 laps of the third race of the season. The finish came in Russell's 4^th start.

The field contacted to 25 for the third race after Chris Pither and the #111 Ice Break Ford withdrew after a hard crash in the second race. James Moffat in the #34 Wilson Security/Valvoline Volvo started the race in the rear after a Power Steering failure during qualifying, however the rain came before the start, and Aaren Russell in the #4 Plus Fitness/Penrite Holden crashed into the turn 8 barrier on the warm-up lap, damaging his car and dropping him to the rear.

The rain also meant that the first six laps were completed under the Safety Car. Within a lap James Moffat in the #34 Wilson Security/Valvoline suffered Suspsension damage and pulled into the garage, dropping to 24th, 10 laps off the leaders, however with the high attrition of the race Moffat got to the last car in the bottom five.

Splitting Russell and Moffat was Chazz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto Ford, crashing heavily on lap 28, Dale Wood in the #96 GB Galvinising/Advan Nissan who retired on lap 30 for unknown reasons. Rounding out the bottom five was James Courtney in the #22 SP Tools Holden on lap 34, crashing heavily in Turn 8 while leading, however with many cautions and a Red Flag meant that Courtney could get back out and be classified.

The Bottom Five

Aaren Russell	0 Laps	Crash
Chazz Mostert	27 Laps	Crash
Dale Wood	30 Laps	Unknown
James Moffat	38 Laps	Running
James Courtney	41 Laps	Running

2016 Australian V8 LASTCAR Standings

Driver's Championship

Tim Slade, Nick Percat, Aaren Russell: 1

Team's Championship

BOC Racing, Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports, Erebus Motorsports: 1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Holden: 3

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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.