Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: June 2017

Monday 19 June 2017

Simonma De Silvestro becomes first female driver to finish last in over 20 years.

Simona De Silvestro picked up her 1^st last-place finish of her career when her #78 Harvey Norman Nissan finished under power, one lap down in the second race at Hidden Valley. The finish came in De Silvestro’s 14^th start.

Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden started the race in the rear after being excluded from qualifying for a near-crash with Garth Tander in the #33 Wilson Security Holden, however at the end of lap 1 Will Davison in the #19 Woodstock Bourbon Holden pitted, dropping him to the rear. On lap 2 Garth Tander in the #33 Wilson Security Holden pitted along with others, dropping to the rear. On lap 5 Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden pitted, falling to the rear. Cameron McConville in the #3 Repair Management Australia Holden pitted on la 7, dropping him to the rear, also losing a lap. Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan fell to last on lap 17. On lap 20 Michael Caruso in the #23 Nissan Nismo/Auto Glym Nissan pitted, falling to last. McConville returned to last on lap 23.

McConville held last until lap 30 when Will Daison returned to last during his second pit-stop. Blanchard fell to last on lap 32 after a second pit-stop. Macauiey Jones returned to last on lap 35 after his second pit-stop. Wood fell to last after his second pit-stop on lap 37. De Silvestro fell to last on lap 41 after her second pit-stop. After being spun on lap 46 by De Silvestro, dropping Wood to last.

Wood held last until lap 58 when James Mofat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden blew a right-rear tire. Wood fell behind Moffat on lap 64, but a 15-second post-race penalty for Simona De Silvestro after spinning out Dale Wood left her last.

Rounding out the bottom five was Cameron McConville in the #3 Repair Management Australia Holden, James Moffat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden and Macauley Jones in the #4 Drillpro Services/NBS Holden.

Note:
The last time a female driver finished last was Melinda Price, when her, Andrew Reid (possibly driver at the time) and Garry Jones' #51 3M Toyota was taken out in a 2-car crash after 16 of the race's 161 laps (The #51 had already crashed out, but was hit by the #89 Peugeot Dealers Australia Peugeot of Ken Matthews and Matthew Martin on lap 17).

The Bottom Five

Simona De Silvestro	69 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	69 Laps	Running
Cameron McConville	69 Laps	Running
James Moffat	69 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	69 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Will Davison	2	3	3
2	Taz Douglas	1	5	5
3	Dale Wood	1	4	5
4T	Nick Percat	1	2	3
4T	Jason Bright	1	2	3
4T	Simona De Silvestro	0	1	3
5T	Tim Blanchard	1	2	2
5T	Matthew Brabham	1	2	2
6	Michael Caruso	1	1	2
7T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
7T	Rick Kelly	1	1	1
8	Alex Rullo	0	7	8
9	James Courtney	0	1	3
10T	Cameron McConville	0	1	1
10T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
10T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	1
10T	Tim Slade	0	1	1
10T	Garth Tander	0	1	1
11T	Todd Kelly	0	0	2
11T	James Moffat	0	0	2
12T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	1
12T	Craig Lowndes	0	0	1
12T	James Golding	0	0	1
12T	Scott Pye	0	0	1
12T	Macauley Jones	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	15/2	8
3	Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	2	5/2
4	Brad Jones Racing	4	1/2	5/4	3/2
5	Nissan Motorsports	4	1/2	3/4	3/2
6	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	1/2	3/4	¾
7	Walkinshaw Racing	2	0	1/2	2
8	Gary Rodgers Motorsports	3	0	1/3	4/3
9	Preston Hire Racing	1	0	0	1
10	Vortex Racing	1	0	0	1
11	Holden Red Bull Racing	2	0	0	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Manufacturer	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Ford	6	2/3	2/3	2/3
2	Nissan	5	3/5	6/5	9/5
3	Holden	18	7/18	26/18	43/18

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.