Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Turn 8 hit leaves Davison last at Adelaide

Sunday 5 March 2017

Turn 8 hit leaves Davison last at Adelaide

Will Davison has picked up his 14th last-place finish of his career when his #19 Woodstock Holden was involved in a 2-car crash that ended his race without completing a single lap of the first race at Adelaide. The finish came in Davison's 362nd start.

Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia Holden started the race in the rear, however at turn 8 disaster struck for Will Davison in the #19 Woodstock Holden crashing into the wall at turn 8 after contact with Todd Kelly in the #7 Carsales.com Nissan, who was outside of James Moffat in the #34 Valvoline Volvo, the crash taking Davison out of the race and down to last.

The extreme heat claimed Taz Douglas in the #3 Southgate Holden/Auto Masters Holden lost 14 laps in the garage after having to be treated for Heat Exhaustion due to a cool suit failure, eventually the cool suit was fixed and Taz Douglas was able to finish. Placing between Davison and Douglas, the other car that fell out of the race was Dale Wood in the #99 GB Galvanizing/ADVAM Holden, retiring with Gearbox failure on lap 50.

Rounding out the bottom five was Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia Holden and Todd Kelly in the #7 carsales.com Nissan has two tire failures during the race, and got a bad sportsmanship flag for loose bodywork.

The Bottom Five

Will Davison	0 Laps	Crash
Dale Wood	49 Laps	Gearbox
Taz Douglas	64 Laps	Running
Alex Rullo	76 Laps	Running
Todd Kelly	77 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Will Davison	1	1	1
2T	Dale Wood	0	1	1
2T	Taz Douglas	0	1	1
4T	Alex Rullo	0	0	1
4T	Todd Kelly	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Team	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Tekno Autosports	1	1	1	1
2	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	2	0	½	1
3	Nissan Motorsports	4	0	¼	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Manufacturer	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	1/16	1/8	3/16
2	Nissan	4	0	¼	½

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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.