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

Sunday 26 March 2017

First lap contact leaves Wood last at Albert Park

Originally from Erebus Motorsports Twiter, Cropped by me.

Dale Wood picked up his 3rd last-place finish at Albert Park when his #99 GB Galvanising/ADVAN Holden retired with Steering damage without completing a single lap of the second race at Albert Park.

James Courtney in the #22 Mobil 1 HSV Racing / Boost Mobile started the race in the rear after a qualifying infraction, but by turn 2 Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia/Castrol Holden had fallen to the rear when disaster struck.

Coming out of turn 3 Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden came across on Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan, moving to the right to avoid Blanchard, De Silvestro collected Dale Wood in the #96 GB Galvanising/ADVAN Holden, sending Wood’s car into the air and damaging the Steering on car #96, ending his race. Just two lap later, going into turn 9, the throttle hung on De Silvestro’s #78 about the same time as the right-front, damaged in the lap 1 incident, failed completely, leading to a scary ride for De Silvestro, leaving her in the sand, out of the race.

Shortly afterwards Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Holden Red Bull Racing Team Holden was spun by Chazz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto Ford. Attempting a move on Craig Lowndes in the #888 Caltex Vortex Holden, James Moffat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden slammed into Shane, destroying the noses of both cars and ending both races.

Rounding out the bottom five was Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia/Castrol Holden who retired with brake failure the following lap.

The Bottom Five

Dale Wood	0 Laps	Steering
Simona De Silvestro	2 Laps	Throttle
James Moffat	2 Laps	Crash
Shane Van Gisbergen	2 Laps	Crash
Alex Rullo	3 Laps	Brakes

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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.