Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Slick Tires + Wet Track = Last Place for Jason Bright at Launceston

Sunday 9 April 2017

Slick Tires + Wet Track = Last Place for Jason Bright at Launceston

Source: Screenshot from Race 4 Highlights, Edited by me.

Jason bright picked up his 17th last-place finish of his career when his #56 MEGA Bulk Fuels Ford was involved in a single car crash that ended his after 3 of the races shortened 76 laps. The finish came in Bright's 550th start.

Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia Holden started the race in the rear, however by turn 3 Tim Blanchard in the #21 GB Galvanizing Holden had fallen to the rear.

Blanchard held last until lap 2 when Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia/Castrol Holden spun Jason Bright in the 56 MEGA Bulk Fuels Ford. After spearing off the road in turn 7 on lap 3 Dale Wood in the #99 GB Galvanizing/Advan on slick tires, caught a wet patch coming out of turn 6, causing him to spin onto the kerb, the grass and finally hitting the tire wall, eventually triggering the first safety car of the race and leaving Bright last.

Next to fall out was Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden who got wide coming out o the final corner, spinning spectacularly across the front straight and Scott Pye in the #2 Mobil 1 HSV Racing Holden, spearing across the track and into the wall, triggering the second Safety Car of the race. The last car to retire was Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia Holden suffered race-ending front-end damage on lap 62.

Rounding out the bottom five was James Moffat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden after he was hit by Michael Caruso in the #23 Nismo Nissan, damaging the left-rear on Moffat's car, losing 6 laps in repairs and Todd Kelly in the #7 carsales.com Nissan who spun off at turn 6 with brake issues on lap 71, losing 4 laps.

The bottom five

Jason Bright	3 Laps	Crash
Tim Blanchard	41 Laps	Crash
Alex Rullo	62 Laps	Crash
James Moffat	70 Laps	Running
Todd Kelly	72 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Taz Douglas	1	3	3
2	Will Davison	1	2	2
3T	Nick Percat	1	1	1
3T	Jason Bright	1	1	1
4	Alex Rullo	0	3	3
5T	Dale Wood	0	1	1
5T	Tim Blanchard	0	1	1
6	Todd Kelly	0	0	2
7T	Simona De Silvestro	0	0	1
7T	Michael Caruso	0	0	1
7T	James Courtney	0	0	1
7T	Scott Pye	0	0	1
7T	James Moffat	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Team	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Tekno Autosports	1	1	2	2
2	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	2	1/2	5	5
3	Brad Jones Racing	3	1/3	1	1
4	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	1/4	1/4	1/4
5	Nissan Motorsports	4	0	0	1
6	Walkinshaw Racing	2	0	0	1
7	Gary Rodgers Motorsports	2	0	0	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Manufacturer	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	3/16	10/16	14/16
2	Ford	6	1/6	1/6	1/6
3	Nissan	4	0	¼	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.