Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: No pace and tire degradation leaves Brabham last at Perth

Sunday 7 May 2017

No pace and tire degradation leaves Brabham last at Perth

Tim Blanchard picked up his 5th last-place finish of his career when his #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden finished under power, 2 laps down in the first race at Barbagallo raceway. The finish came in Blanchard's 116th race start.

Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia Holden started the race in the rear, however immediately Jason Bright in the #56 MEGA Bulk Fuels Ford had trouble getting off the line, dropping to the rear immediately. On lap 9 Bright relegated Matthew Brabham in the #3 Repair Management/Dunning's Holden to last. Brabham held last until failing tires caused Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden to fall last on lap 41, where he stayed for the rest of the race.

Rounding out the bottom five was Matthew Brabham in the #3 Repair Management/Dunning's Holden, Alex Rullo in the #62 Strike Drilling/Castrol Holden, Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Nissan and Nick Percat in the #8 Holden Supporting Equality/Adelaide Holden after engine issues throughout the race.

The Bottom Five

Tim Blanchard	48 Laps	Running
Matthew Brabham	49 Laps	Running
Alex Rullo	49 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	50 Laps	Running
Nick Percat	50 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Will Davison	2	3	3
2	Taz Douglas	1	4	4
3T	Dale Wood	1	2	2
3T	Nick Percat	1	2	3
3T	Jason Bright	1	2	2
4	Tim Blanchard	1	1	1
5	Alex Rullo	0	5	5
6T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
6T	Matthew Brabham	0	1	1
7T	Todd Kelly	0	0	2
7T	Simona De Silvestro	0	0	2
8T	Michael Caruso	0	0	1
8T	James Courtney	0	0	1
8T	Scott Pye	0	0	1
8T	James Moffat	0	0	1
8T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	1
8T	Craig Lowndes	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Team	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Tekno Autosports	1	2	3	3
2	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	2	1/2	13/2	8
3	Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	1	1
4	Brad Jones Racing	3	2/3	3	4
5	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	1/4	1/2	1/2
6	Nissan Motorsports	4	0	0	5/4
7	Walkinshaw Racing	2	0	0	1
8	Preston Hire Racing	1`	0	0	1
9	Vortex Racing	1	0	0	1
10	Gary Rodgers Motorsports	2	0	0	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Manufacturer	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	6/16	18/16	27/16
2	Ford	6	1/6	2/6	2/6
3	Nissan	4	0	¼	9/2

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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.