Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Hoping Dawrin last-placer Holdsworth a speedy recovery

Sunday 19 June 2016

Hoping Dawrin last-placer Holdsworth a speedy recovery

Lee Holdsworth was seriously injured in a major crash at the Hidden Valley racetrack Sunday 19th June. Lee Holdsworth's #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden was bumped by Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden, after his contact with James Courtney in the #22 Mobil 1 Holden, sending Lee Holdsworth hard into the concrete between turns 1 and 2. Lee Holdsworth has a broken pelvis and is likely out for the majority of the remainder of the season. He is currently tied for the lead in the 2016 Australian V8 LASTCAR championship with Nick Percat in the #222 ABRO/Repair Management Australia Holden.

Safety has always been a high priority of the V8 Supercar series, and as I think that it might be time it investigate the SAFER barrier for the barriers between turns 1 and 5 (on both sides) at Darwin so nobody gets as badly hurt as Holdsworth was. I know with the weak Australian Dollar there maybe cost issues, but honestly, you can't put a price on driver's safety. That part of the track has now been hit at least once by a driver racing there every year for the last four, and I think it's time that something more than Concrete was put there.

Hope for a speedy recovery Lee.

And the next Virgin Australia LASTCAR series articles will be out tomorrow.

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 Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last.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