Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Post-Race Exclusion leaves Moffat last at Eastern Creek

Monday 21 August 2017

Post-Race Exclusion leaves Moffat last at Eastern Creek

Original photo: Speedcafe. Edited by me.

James Moffat picked up his 13^th last-place finish of his career when his #34 Wilson Security Holden was disqualified for a technical breach after -31 of the race’s 31 laps. The finish came in Moffat’s 213^th start.

Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden started the race in the rear, a delayed start, however at turn 1 Will Davison in the #95 Cars 3 Holden was spun out of 14th place off James Courtney in the #22 SP Tools Holden, with Davison also spinning Jason Bright in the #56 Mega Bulk Fuels Ford, dropping Davison to last.

Will Davison held last until lap 9 when pistops began, with James Courtney in the #22 SP Tools Holden briefly held last, then on lap 11 Tim Slade in the #14 Freightliner Holden suffered a tire failure, dropping him to last. Rulllo fell to last on lap 13.

Alex Davison in the #3 Gemini/Repair Management Australia Holden fell to last on lap 15 in his pit-stop, and held last until lap 16 when Todd Kelly in the #7 carsales.com.au Nissan suffered a tire failure, spraying debris all over the track, causing a safety car. Repairs dropped Todd Kelly to last. Post-Race, James Moffat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden was excluded from the race after an attachment was discovered to the undertray of the #34.

A late-race incident at the restart between Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Red Bull Racing Australia Holden and Scott McLaughlin in the #17 Shell Ford saw both penalised for separate incidents. Shane Van Gisbergen was dropped into the bottom five after a post-race drive-through penalty for overlapping McLaughlin before the Green Flag, and McLaughlin narrowly avoided a bottom five appearance after a post-race Drive-Through Penalty for spinning Shane Van Gisbergen in turn 2. Between Kelly and Van Gisbergen was Todd Kelly, Nick Percat in the #8 AC Delco/Adelaide Holden. Between McLaughlin and Van Gisbergen was Alex Rullo.

The Bottom Five

James Moffat	-31 Laps	Excluded
Todd Kelly	30 Laps	Running
Nick Percat	31 Laps	Running
Shane Van Gisbergen	31 Laps	Running
Alex Rullo	31 Laps	Running

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Will Davison	2	3	3
2	Alex Rullo	1	8	10
3	Taz Douglas	1	5	5
4	Dale Wood	1	4	6
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	5
11T	Michael Caruso	1	1	2
11T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
11T	Rick Kelly	1	1	1
12	Jack LeBrocq	1	1	1
13	James Courtney	0	2	4
14T	Aaren Russell	0	1	2
14T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	2
15T	Cameron McConville	0	1	1
15T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
15T	Garth Tander	0	1	1
16T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	1
16T	Craig Lowndes	0	0	1
16T	James Golding	0	0	1
16T	Scott Pye	0	0	1
16T	Macauley Jones	0	0	1
16T	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	Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	5/2	7/2
5	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	6	1/2	17/5	23/6
6	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	1/2	1	1
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	5/6	10/6	11/6
2	Ford	6	2/3	2/3	2/3
3	Holden	18	9/18	32/18	3

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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.