Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Engine Failure leaves Slade last at Townsville

Sunday 9 July 2017

Engine Failure leaves Slade last at Townsville

Tim Slade picked up his 6th last-place finish of his career when his #14 Freightliner Holden retired with Engine failure after 25 of the race's 70 laps. The finish came in Slade's 260th race start.

Aaren Russell in the #3 Repair Management Australia Holden started the race in the rear, but Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden fell to the rear by turn 4. The following lap Russell fell back to last. Tim Slade in the #14 Freightliner Holden was turned around by Fabian Couithard in the #12 Shell V-Power Ford at turn 13 at the end of lap 2, dropping him to the rear. Fabian would finish 21st, one spot out of the bottom five.

Craig Lowndes in the #888 Caltex Vortex Holden pitted on lap 9, dropping him to the rear. Lee Holdsworth in the #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden fell to the rear on lap 11. Fabian Coulthard in the #12 Shell V-Power Ford fell to the rear on lap 13, serving a 15-second stop-and-hold penalty, for the contact with Slade, that dropped him off the lead lap. Coulthard recovered his lost lap on lap 20. The completion of pitstops left Aaren Russell in the #3 Repair Management Autsralia Holden.

Russell held last until lap 27 when Disaster strikes for Tim Slade in the #14 Freightliner Holden, the car suddenly slowing to a stop near turn 11 with Engine failure, putting him to the rear on lap 28.

Rounding out the bottom five was Aaren Russell in the #3 Repair Management Australia Holden, Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden, Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan and Dale Wood in the #99 GB Galvanizing/ADVAN Holden.

The Bottom Five

Tim Slade	25 Laps	Engine
Aaren Russell	68 Laps	Running
Alex Rullo	69 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	69 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	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	6
4	Jason Bright	1	3	4
5	Tim Slade	1	3	3
6	Nick Percat	1	2	3
7T	Tim Blanchard	1	2	2
7T	Matthew Brabham	1	2	2
8	Simona De Silvestro	1	1	4
9	Todd Kelly	1	1	3
10	Michael Caruso	1	1	2
11T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
11T	Rick Kelly	1	1	1
12	Alex Rullo	0	7	8
13	James Courtney	0	2	4
14	Aaren Russell	0	1	2
15T	Cameron McConville	0	1	1
15T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
15T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	1
15T	Garth Tander	0	1	1
16	James Moffat	0	0	2
17T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	1
17T	Craig Lowndes	0	0	1
17T	James Golding	0	0	1
17T	Scott Pye	0	0	1
17T	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	Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	5/2	3
3	Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	2	2
4	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	5	2/5	17/5	19/5
5	Nissan Motorsports	4	3/4	1	2
6	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	1/2	3/4	¾
7	Walkinshaw Racing	2	0	1	5/2
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	Nissan	5	4/5	7/5	11/5
2	Ford	6	2/3	2/3	2/3
3	Holden	18	8/18	29/18	47/18

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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.