Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Crash in the chicane leaves Todd Kelly last at Surfer's Paradise

Sunday 22 October 2017

Crash in the chicane leaves Todd Kelly last at Surfer's Paradise

Screenshotted by me, original by Darcy.f1

Todd Kelly picked up his 26th last-place finish of his career, while Jack Lebrocq picked up his 3rd last-place finish of his career, when their #7 carsales.com.au Nissan was involved in a 2-car crash, with Todd Kelly at the wheel, that ended their race after 45 of the race's shortened 94 laps. The finish came in Todd's 541st race start, and LeBrocq's 15th start.

Aaren Russell and Taz Douglas started the race in the rear in the #3 Plus Fitness Holden, however by turn 2 Alex Rullo and Aaren Russell in the #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden fell to the rear, however Rullo got back past Douglas by the back straight.

On lap 6 Karl Reindler in the #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden had to slow in turn 11, the resulting concertina caused Alexandre Premat in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford to spin, and he was collected by Jack Perkins in the #22 Mobil 1 HSV Racing/Boost Mobile Holden and Luke Youlden in the #9 Penrite Australian Made and Owned Holden, dropping Premat to the rear. Premat put Douglas to the rear on lap 13.

Douglas held last until lap 16 when Garry Jacobson in the #56 MEGA Bulk Fuels Ford pitted, dropping Jacobson to the rear. Douglas fell to last again on lap 19, and was the first to drop a lap on lap 23.

Douglas held last until lap 34 when Chris Pither in the #99 GB Galvanizing/ADVAN Holden pitted, exchanging with co-driver Dale Wood, dropping him to the rear.

Richard Muscat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden fell to the rear on lap 35 after exchanging with James Moffat.

Mechanical Black Flag for Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden due to an opening passenger door. putting them to the rear. Douglas returned to the rear during his lap 42 pit stop.

On lap 46 Todd Kelly in the #7 carsales.com. Nissan collided heavily with Garth Tander in the #33 Wilson Security Holden at the turn 1,2,3 chicane, doing terminal damage to the front and rear of car #7, putting Todd and co-driver Jack LeBrocq into the garage, and dropping them to last on lap 48.

Next to fall out was Aaren Russell and Taz Douglas in the #3 Plus Fitness Holden, Suspension failure on lap 50, possibly related to an earlier incident, took them out. Following the #3 out was Lee Holdsworth in the #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden hit a tire bundle head-on at turn 10, dislodging the tires and causing the first Safety Car of the race. The damage sent Holdsworth to the garage on lap 60, and retired shortly afterwards.

Rounding out the bottom five was Alex Rullo and Alex Davison in the #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden, dropping 2 laps during the race and Dale Wood and Chris Pither in the #99 GB Galvanizing/ADVAN Holden after an incident late in the race with James Moffat and James Golding in the #34 - Holden.

The Bottom Five

Todd Kelly/Jack LeBrocq	45 Laps	Crash
Aaren Russell/Taz Douglas	48 Laps	Suspension
Lee Holdsworth/Karl Reindler	58 Laps	Crash
Alex Rullo/Alex Davison	92 Laps	Running
Dale Wood/Chris Pither	94 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Tim Slade	2	4	4
2	Todd Kelly	2	3	5
3	Will Davison	2	3	3
4	Jack LeBrocq	2	2	2
5	Alex Rullo	1	10	13
6	Taz Douglas	1	7	7
7	Dale Wood	1	4	8
8	Jason Bright	1	4	5
9T	Nick Percat	1	3	5
9T	James Moffat	1	3	5
10T	Tim Blanchard	1	2	2
10T	Matthew Brabham	1	2	2
11	Simona De Silvestro	1	1	7
12	Michael Caruso	1	1	2
13T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
13T	Rick Kelly	1	1	1
13T	Cameron Waters	1	1	1
13T	Ashley Walsh	1	1	1
13T	Scott McLaighlin	1	1	1
13T	Alexandre Premat	1	1	1
14	Aaren Russell	0	3	5
15	James Courtney	0	2	4
16	Lee Holdsworth	0	2	3
17	Karl Reindler	0	2	2
18	Alex Davison	0	1	3
19T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	2
19T	Craig Lowndes	0	1	2
20T	Cameron McConville	0	1	1
20T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
20T	Garth Tander	0	1	1
20T	Richard Muscat	0	1	1
21T	Scott Pye	0	0	2
21T	Macauley Jones	0	0	2
21T	David Russell	0	0	2
22T	Warren Luff	0	0	1
22T	James Golding	0	0	1
22T	Mark Winterbottom	0	0	1
22T	Dean Canto	0	0	1
22T	Chris Pither	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Team	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Tekno Autosports	2	1	3/2	3/2
2	Brad Jones Racing	6	5/6	9/6	2
3	Nissan Motorsports	9	7/9	8/9	17/9
4	Shell V-Power Racing	4	½	½	½
5	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	8	3/8	25/8	29/8
6	Erebus Motorsports	4	1/4	5/4	5/2
7	Prodrive Racing Australia	8	1/4	5/8	1
8	Gary Rodgers Motorsports	5	1/5	4/5	7/5
9	Charlie Schwerkolt Racing	2	0	2	2
10	Vortex Racing	2	0	1/2	1
11	Walkinshaw Racing	4	0	1/2	7/4
12	Holden Red Bull Racing	4	0	1/4	½
13	Preston Hire Racing	2	0	0	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Manufacturer	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Nissan	9	7/9	8/9	17/9
2	Ford	13	5/13	8/13	11/13`
3	Holden	34	12/34	53/34	77/34

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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.