Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First lap incident leaves Rullo last at Ipswich

Sunday 30 July 2017

First lap incident leaves Rullo last at Ipswich

Screencapped from Supercars, edited by me

Alex Rullo picked up his 1st last-place finish of his career when his #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden was involved in a crash that ended his race without completing a single lap of the first race at Queensland Raceway in Ipswich. The finish came in Rullo's 15th start.

Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia Holden started the race in the rear, however by turn 2 Alex Davison in the #3 Gemini/Repair Management Australia Holden had fallen to the rear.

Heading into turn 3 Dale Wood in the #99 GB Galvanizing/ADVAN Holden spun James Moffat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden, looping him into James Golding in the #31 Wilson Security Holden. Trying to avoid the chaos, Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia Holden went into the grass, hitting something and tearing the left-front out of Rullo's car, forcing him to the garage and down to last. Overheating issues from the lap 1 damage would nearly KO Moffat from the face on lap 20, with Moffat losing 8 laps in the garage.

Finishing between Rullo and Moffat was Jason Bright in the #56 MEGA Bulk Fuels Ford, who retired with a broken Throttle Shaft while running 11th on lap 34.

Rounding out the bottom five was Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Nissan after a troubled race which included first lap off-road damage and both late-race off-road excursion and tire failure and Alex Davison in the #3 Gemini/Repair Management Australia Holden.

The Bottom Five

Alex Rullo	0 Laps	Crash
Jason Bright	33 Laps	Throttle Shaft
James Moffat	31 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	37 Laps	Running
Alex Davison	39 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Will Davison	2	3	3
2	Alex Rullo	1	8	9
3	Taz Douglas	1	5	5
4	Dale Wood	1	4	6
5	Jason Bright	1	4	5
6	Tim Slade	1	3	3
7	Nick Percat	1	2	3
8T	Tim Blanchard	1	2	2
8T	Matthew Brabham	1	2	2
9	Simona De Silvestro	1	1	5
10	Todd Kelly	1	1	3
11	Michael Caruso	1	1	2
12T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
12T	Rick Kelly	1	1	1
13	James Courtney	0	2	4
14	James Moffat	0	1	3
15	Aaren Russell	0	1	2
16T	Cameron McConville	0	1	1
16T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
16T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	1
16T	Garth Tander	0	1	1
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
17T	Alex Davison	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	Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	2	2
3	Nissan Motorsports	6	2/3	2/3	8/6
4	Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	5/2	3
5	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	6	1/2	17/5	10/3
6	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	1/2	1	1
7	Walkinshaw Racing	2	0	1	5/2
8	Gary Rodgers Motorsports	3	0	2/3	5/3
9T	Preston Hire Racing	1	0	0	1
9T	Vortex Racing	1	0	0	1
10	Holden Red Bull Racing	2	0	0	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Manufacturer	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Nissan	6	2/3	7/6	11/6
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.