Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: From Pole to last as Engine failure ends McLaughlin and Premat's Bathurst

Sunday 8 October 2017

From Pole to last as Engine failure ends McLaughlin and Premat's Bathurst

Original by Fox Sports, Edited by Me

Scott McLaughlin picked up his 11th last-place finish of his career, while Alexandre Premat picked up his 8th last-place finish of his career, when their #17 Shell V-Power Ford retired with Engine failure after 74 of the race's 161 laps. The finish came in McLaughlin's 160th start, and Premat's 75th start.

Alex Rullo and Alex Davison in the #62 Plus Fitness/Castrol Holden started the race in the rear, and held last throughout the early stages, dropping a minute behind the leaders by lap 8, and held last until Craig Lowndes and Steven Richards in the #888 Caltex Holden pitted on lap 17. Alex Rullo and Alex Davison returned to the rear on lap 19 after a pit-stop, also dropping a lap. Davison recovered his lap after the pitstops.

Alex Davison held last until lap 39 when Aaren Russell and Taz Douglas in the #3 Gemini/Plus Fitness pitted a second time. Davison fell back to last on lap 44 during his pitstop. Another pitstop for Russell and Douglas drops car #3 to last again on lap 45, and car #3 pulled into the garage on lap 48 with a foggy windscreen, losing 4 laps.

A broken header for Scott McLaughlin and Alexandre Premat in the #17 Shell V-Power Ford on lap 48, pitting again on lap 55. The engine failed on lap 76, causing the first Safety Car of the race, taking them out of the race and putting car #17 to last on lap 81.

Next to fall out was Lee Holdsworth and Karl Reindler in the #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden, after Engine failure during their lap 76 pitstop. Pushed into the garage, car #18 was retired on lap 83.

Holdsworth and Reindler were followed by James Moffat and Richard Muscat in the #34 Wilson Security Holden, after an initial spin and contact with the wall at McPhillamy Park on lap 139, then 2 laps later crashing heavily at Reed Park, ending their race and causing the third safety car of the race.

Rounding out the bottom five, both crashing with less than 10 laps to go, was Simona De Silvestro and David Russell in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan, running 9th on lap 152 Simona caught the outer ripple strip at the exit of the final corner, spinning her into the inside pit wall, causing the fourth Safety Car of the race and Mark Winterbottom and Dean Canto in the #5 Bottle-O Racing Ford after a crash near Forest Elbow with 2 laps to go.

Either avoiding or working their way out of the bottom five after incidents include 21st place Nick Percat and Andrew Jones in the #8 Clipsal/Boost Mobile Holden, steering failure on the final lap caused Percat to crash out, 20th place Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell in the #88 Holden Red Bull Racing Holden after dropping a cylinder about two-thirds of the way through the race, dropping 37 laps trying solve the issue, 19th place James Courtney and Jack Perkins in the #22 Mobil 1 Holden after a collision with the wall at Reid Park just past half-way, losing 14 laps but managing to stay running at the end and 18th place Garth Tander and James Golding in the #33 Wilson Security Holden after a mid-race crash at the Cutting.

The Bottom Five

Scott McLaughlin/Alexandre Premat	74 Laps	Engine
Lee Holdsworth/Karl Reindler	76 Laps	Engine
James Moffat/Richard Muscat	141 Laps	Crash
Simona De Silvestro/Aaren Russell	152 Laps	Crash
Mark Winterbottom/Dean Canto	159 Laps	Crash

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Tim Slade	2	4	4
2	Will Davison	2	3	3
3	Alex Rullo	1	10	12
4	Taz Douglas	1	6	6
5T	Dale Wood	1	4	7
5T	Jason Bright	1	4	5
6	Nick Percat	1	3	5
7T	Todd Kelly	1	2	4
7T	James Moffat	1	3	5
8t	Tim Blanchard	1	2	2
8T	Matthew Brabham	1	2	2
9	Simona De Silvestro	1	1	7
10	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
11T	Ashley Walsh	1	1	1
11T	Scott McLaighlin	1	1	1
11T	Alexandre Premat	1	1	1
12T	James Courtney	0	2	4
12T	Aaren Russell	0	2	4
13T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	2
13T	Craig Lowndes	0	1	2
13T	Alex Davison	0	1	2
13T	Cameron McConville	0	1	1
14T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
14T	Garth Tander	0	1	1
14T	Lee Holdsworth	0	1	2
15T	Karl Reindler	0	1	1
15T	Richard Muscat	0	1	1
16T	Scott Pye	0	0	2
16T	Macauley Jones	0	0	2
17T	Warren Luff	0	0	1
17T	James Golding	0	0	1
17T	Mark Winterbottom	0	0	1
17T	Dean Canto	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	Shell V-Power Racing	4	½	½	½
4	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	8	3/8	21/8	25/8
5	Nissan Motorsports	9	1/3	4/9	14/9
6	Erebus Motorsports	4	1/4	5/4	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	1	1
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	5/9	6/9	16/9
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.