Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Turn 8 hit leaves defending champion Percat last at Adelaide

Sunday 5 March 2017

Turn 8 hit leaves defending champion Percat last at Adelaide

Defending Virgin Australia LASTCAR Champion Nick Percat has picked up his 9th last-place finish of his career when his #8 Clipsal Holden was involved in a single-car crash that ended his race without completing a single lap of the second race at Adelaide. The finish came in Percat's 110th start.

Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan started the race in the rear after being penalised from 25th for blocking Nick Percat in the #8 BOC Holden during qualifying, and she held last after stalling at the start, However Nick Percat in the #8 Clipsal Holden smacked the wall at turn 8, damaging his car and dropping him to the rear. Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan endured a tough race, spun out at the final corner by James Courtney in the #22 Mobil 1 Holden about half-way through the race while Simona was trying to get to the pit-lane, then a drive-through penalty dropped her to 23^rd.

Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia Holden and Taz Douglas in the #3 Southgate Holden/Auto Masters Holden split Percat and De Silvestro, both due to a lack of pace. Rounding out the bottom five was Michael Caruso in the #23 Nismo Nissan after a tire failure with 7 laps to go, dropping him into the bottom five.

The Bottom Five

Nick Percat	0 Laps	Crash
Alex Rullo	75 Laps	Running
Taz Douglas	76 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	77 Laps	Running
Michael Caruso	77 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1T	Will Davison	1	1	1
1T	Nick Percat	1	1	1
2	Taz Douglas	0	2	2
3T	Dale Wood	0	1	1
3T	Alex Rullo	0	1	1
4T	Simona De Silvestro	0	0	1
4T	Todd Kelly	0	0	1
4T	Michael Caruso	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	Brad Jones Racing	3	1/3	2/3	2/3
3	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	2	0	3/2	3/2
4	Nissan Motorsports	4	0	0	3/4

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Manufacturer	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	2/16	5/16	6/16
2	Nissan	4	0	¼	3/2

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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.