Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Power Steering failure leaves Lowndes last in Second Sprint for the Grid

Sunday 17 September 2017

Power Steering failure leaves Lowndes last in Second Sprint for the Grid

Original by Fox Sports, edited by me

Craig Lowndes picked up his 1^st Sprint for the Grid last-place finish of his career when his #888 Caltex Colin Bond Tribute Holden retired with a Power Steering Failure after 5 of the race’s shortened 19 laps.

The field contracted to 24 cars after the withdrawal of cars #4 (Permanent) and #19 (For Race 2 only), and during the warm-up lap Jason Bright in the #56 MEGA Bulk Fuels Ford stalled on the grid with a failed Starter Motor, causing a false start and dropping Bright to last.

Bright lost 2 laps in repairs, and held last until lap 5 when Craig Lowndes in the #888 Caltex Colin Bond Tribute Holden who had been smoking since lap 2, pulled out of the race with Power Steering failure. Lowndes fell to last on lap 7.

Rounding out the bottom five was Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD/R380 Tribute Nissan, Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Magement/Castrol Holden and Aaren Russell in the #3 Gemini/Repair Management Australia Holden.

The Bottom Five

Craig Lowndes	5 Laps	Power Steering
Jason Bright	17 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	19 Laps	Running
Alex Rullo	19 Laps	Running
Aaren Russell	19 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 Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last.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.