Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Reynolds and Baird take out Pirtek Enduro LASTCAR cup after Pither and Stanaway crash out of race 2

Sunday 23 October 2016

Reynolds and Baird take out Pirtek Enduro LASTCAR cup after Pither and Stanaway crash out of race 2

Chris Pither picked up his 5th last-place finish of his career, while Richie Stanaway picked up his 1st last-place finish of his career, when their #111 Ice Break Ford was involved in a single-car crash that ended their race after 14 of the race's 102 laps. The finish came in Pither's 53rd start and Stanway's 4th start, is Pither's 2nd last-place finish of the season, the other coming after a heavy crash in the 2nd race at Launeston, 18 races ago.

The field contracted to 25 cars after Shae Davies and Chris Van der Drift in the #4 Davbridge Constructions Holden after Shae crashed heavily during Qualifying, ending the weekend for the team. Dale Wood and David Russell in the #96 GB Galvanizing/ADVAM Holden started the race in the rear. Into the fast chicane, car #96 wound up in the fence at the exit of the 7,8,9,10 chicanes, damaging the right-front of the car.

Wood and Russell held last until lap 15 when Chris Pither and Richie Stanaway had contact with James Courtney and Jack Perkins in the #22 SP Tools Holden in turn 4, breaking the Steering on car #11 and pitching it into the fence, triggering the only safety car of the race, putting car #111 to the rear on lap 16. Next to fall out was Andre Heimgartner and Aaren Russell in the #3 Plus Fitness Holden after being spun into the turn 11 wall by David Reynolds and Craig Baird in the #9 Penrite Oils Holden. Car #3 went to the garage on lap 25, losing 10 laps. Car #3 would eventually retire on lap 52.

Car #21 would eventually finish 22^nd. Wood split Scott Pye and Tony D'Alberto in the #17 Hog's Breath Cafe Ford had a jack spike failure on lap 16, breaking the air coupling inside the car. They pitted on lap 54, leading to a long pit-stop, dropping a lap and Todd Kelly and Matthew Campbell in the #7 Carsales.com Nissan, after a mis-timed pitstop on lap 35, thinking that the Heimgartner crash would cause a caution, but it didn’t, leaving Todd and Matt in 21^st.

The bottom five

Chris Pither/Richie Stanaway	14 Laps	Crash
Andre Heimgartner/Aaren Russell	30 Laps	Crash
Scott Pye/Tony D’Alberto	101 Laps	Running
Dale Wood/David Russell	101 Laps	Running
Todd Kelly/Matthew Campbell	101 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Nick Percat: 4

Lee Holdsworth: 3

Scott Pye, David Reynolds, Craig Baird, Chris Pither: 2

Tim Slade, Aaren Russell, Scott McLaughlin, , Fabian Coulthard, Michael Caruso, Cameron Waters, Kurt Kostecki, James Courtney, Will Davison, James Moffat, Karl Reindler Richie Stanaway,: 1

Team's Championship

Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports, Charlie Schwerkolt Racing,: 4

DJR Team Penske, Erebus Motorsports: 3

Gary Rodgers Motorsport, Super Black Racing: 2

BOC Racing, Pepsi Max Racing, Nissan Motorsports, Holden Racing Team, Tekno Autosports: 1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Holden: 15

Ford: 6

Volvo: 2

Nissan: 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.