Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Door troubles leave Taz Douglas last in First Sprint for the Grid

Sunday 17 September 2017

Door troubles leave Taz Douglas last in First Sprint for the Grid

Original by Newcastle Herald, edited by me

Taz Douglas picked up his 1^st Sprint for the Grid last-place finish of his career when his #3 Gemini/Repair Management Australia Holden was involved in a multi-car incident that ended is race after 1 of the race’s shortened 17 laps.

Alex Davison in the #3 Gemini/Repair Management Australia Holden started the race in the rear, however after turn 4 Matt Campbell in the #97 Holden Red Bull Racing Team Holden was spun into the fence at Turn 4 by Taz Douglas in the #3 Gemini/Repair Management Australia Holden, also making contact with Todd Hazelwood in the #4 Cooldrive Distribution/Norm Beechey 65 Tribute, dropping him to the rear.

Just one lap layer, Taz Douglas in the #3 Gemini/Repair Management Australia Holden suffered door damage on lap 2, forcing him to the garage, dropping him to the rear on lap 3.

On lap 19, there was an almighty crash between Jonathon Webb in the #19 Woodstock Bourbon Holden and Todd Hazelwood in the #4 Cooldrive Distribution/Norm Beechey 65 tribute Holden, sending Webb into the tires and Hazelwood flipping wildly into the air, before landing before bouncing multiple times on the ground, continuing to spin as he landed. Hazelwod was OK, but car #4 was a total write off. The Red Flag caused a 1 lap drop-back, leaving the drivers where they were a lap earlier.

Splitting Webb and Hazelwood was David Russell in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD/R380 Tribute Nissan.

The bottom five

Taz Douglas	1 Lap	Crash
Matt Campbell	17 Laps	Running
Jonathon Webb	17 Laps	Running
Matt Campbell	17 Laps	Running
Todd Hazelwood	17 Laps	Running

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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.