Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: August 2017

Monday 21 August 2017

Mid-race collision leaves Waters last at Eastern Creek

Screenshotted from Youtube, edited by me.

Cameron Waters picked up his 2nd last-place finish of his career when his #6 Monster Energy Ford was involved in a two-car crash that ended his race after 15 of the race's 53 laps. The finish came in Waters’ 62nd start.

Alex Davison in the #3 Gemini/Repair Management Australia Holden started the race in the rear, however a bad start left Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden last. By turn 2 Alex Rullo in the #62 Castrol/Repair Management Holden fell to last. By turn 7 Alex Davison had fallen to last. David Reynolds in the #9 Penrite Holden fell to last after a tire failure on lap 3, barely staying on the lead lap.

Dale Wood in the #99 GB Galvanizing/ADVAN Holden had a tire failure on lap 9, dropping him to last as he limped into the pitlane,

Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford was spun out by Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden at turn 4 on lap 16. damaging the left-rear Suspension on Waters car. Additional contact shortly afterwards caused severe damage to the front of Rullo's car, also sending Rullo to the garage, eventually ending both their races.

Rounding out the bottom five was Craig Lowndes in the #888 Caltex Vortex Holden after mid-race engine issues, Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan after a pit-lane penalty for a pit lane limiter violation and Dale Wood in the #99 GB Galvanizing/ADVAN Holden.

The Bottom Five

Cameron Waters	15 Laps	Crash
Alex Rullo	15 Laps	Crash
Craig Lowndes	39 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	51 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	51 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Will Davison	2	3	3
2	Alex Rullo	1	9	11
3	Taz Douglas	1	5	5
4	Dale Wood	1	4	7
5	Jason Bright	1	4	5
6	Nick Percat	1	3	4
7	Tim Slade	1	3	3
8T	Todd Kelly	1	2	4
8T	James Moffat	1	2	4
9T	Tim Blanchard	1	2	2
9T	Matthew Brabham	1	2	2
10	Simona De Silvestro	1	1	6
11T	Michael Caruso	1	1	2
11T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
11T	Rick Kelly	1	1	1
11T	Jack LeBrocq	1	1	1
11T	Cameron Waters	1	1	1
12	James Courtney	0	2	4
13T	Aaren Russell	0	1	2
13T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	2
13T	Craig Lowndes	0	1	2
14T	Cameron McConville	0	1	1
14T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
15T	Garth Tander	0	1	1
15T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	1
15T	James Golding	0	0	1
15T	Scott Pye	0	0	1
15T	Macauley Jones	0	0	1
15T	Alex Davison	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Team	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Tekno Autosports	1	2	4	4
2	Nissan Motorsports	6	5/6	8/6	11/6
3	Brad Jones Racing	4	3/4	9/4	9/4
4	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	3/4	3/2	7/4
5	Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	5/2	7/2
6	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	6	1/2	17/5	23/6
7	Gary Rodgers Motorsports	3	1/3	1	2
8	Walkinshaw Racing	2	0	1	5/2
9	Holden Red Bull Racing	2	0	1/2	1
10T	Preston Hire Racing	1	0	0	1
10T	Vortex Racing	1	0	0	1

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Manufacturer	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Nissan	6	1	11/6	13/6
2	Ford	6	2/3	2/3	2/3
3	Holden	18	9/18	34/18	39/18

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.