Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: The biggest crash in V8 Supercars history leaves Douglas last at Launceston.

Sunday 9 April 2017

The biggest crash in V8 Supercars history leaves Douglas last at Launceston.

Source: Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports Twitter, edited by me.

Taz Douglas picked up his 2nd last-place finish of his career when his #3 Repiar Management Australia Holden was involved in a 14-car pileup that ended his round after 1 of the race's 4 laps. The finish came in Douglas' 50th start.

Taz Douglas in the #3 Repair Management Australia Holden started the race in the rear, however by turn 2 Michael Caruso in the #23 Nismo Nissan, likely hoping that the track would dry out, started the race on dry tires and was in last. He held last until lap 2 when catastrophe struck.

Heading out of turn 3, Rick Kelly in the #15 Sengled Nissan was bounced into the fence by Fabian Coulthard in the #12 Shell Ford. Further up the road, Garth Tander in the #33 Wilson Security Holden was spun out by Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford, spearing Tander into the slowing Rick Kelly, spearing him across the track. With the track blocked and almost no vision, James Moffat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden runs over the back of Tim Slade in the #14 Freightliner Holden, and Rick firstly hits the other fence, then is hit by Nick Percat in the #8 Biante 1:1/Adelaide Holden, who is then hit by Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden. About the same time, James Moffat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden collided with teammate Tander, then with Scott Pye in the #2 Mobil 1 HSV Racing Holden. Will Davison then slams into Rick, flaring Davison's back, and Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia/Castrol Holden and Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan run into the back of Tander, at the same time Taz Douglas in the #3 Repair Management Australia Holden slammed into the back of James Courtney in the #22 Mobil 1 HSV Racing Holden, sending Courtney into Percat, Blanchard and back into Douglas, before finally rolling back into Davison. the result of this crash was a 50-minute red flag that reduced the number of laps run from 50 to 4.

It has been confirmed that Will Davison in the #19 Woodstock Holden, Rick Kelly in the #15 Sengled Nissan, and Taz Douglas in the #3 Repair Management Australia Holden and James Courtney in the #22 Mobil 1 HSV Racing Holden were done for the weekend.

Rounding out the bottom five, with just five of the 14 cars involved, was Will Davison in the #19 Woodstock Holden, Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia/Castrol Holden, Taz Douglas in the #3 Repair Management Australia Holden and James Courtney in the #22 Mobil 1 Holden. While Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan was involved in the crash, and was headed for a bottom 3 finish, she managed to limp her car back to the pits and get it repaired during the red flag. The upshot of this is that Simona get back out and finished 14^th.

The bottom five

Taz Douglas	1 Lap	Crash
Will Davison	1 Lap	Crash
Alex Rullo	1 Lap	Crash
James Courtney	1 Lap	Crash
Scott Pye	1 Lap	Crash

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Taz Douglas	1	3	3
2	Will Davison	1	2	2
3	Nick Percat	1	1	1
4	Alex Rullo	0	2	2
5	Dale Wood	0	1	1
6T	Simona De Silvestro	0	0	1
6T	Todd Kelly	0	0	1
6T	Michael Caruso	0	0	1
6T	James Courtney	0	0	1
6T	Scott Pye	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	4	4
3	Brad Jones Racing	3	1/3	2/3	2/3
4	Nissan Motorsports	4	0	0	¾
5	Walkinshaw Racing	2	0	0	1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Manufacturer	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	3/16	8/16	11/16
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.