Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Coulthard last after second career rollover.

Sunday 5 November 2017

Coulthard last after second career rollover.

Original by Supercars, Screenshot then edit by me

Fabian Coulthard picked up his 9th last-place finish of his career when his #12 Shell V-Power Ford was involved in 3-car crash that ended his race after 56 of the race's shortened 66 laps. The finish came in Coulthard's 346th start, and his second last-place finish where’s he’s flipped out of the race, the first coming at Bathurst in 2010.

After qualifying was rained out and the starting order was set based on combined 1st and 2nd practice session, Jack Perkins in the #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden started the race in the rear, and exchanged last a couple of times with Aaren Russell in the #3 Plus Fitness Holden.

Perkins held last until lap 9 when James Courtney in the #22 Mobil 1 HSV/Boost Mobile Holden, dropping him to the rear, then on lap 12 when Michael Caruso in the #23 Nissan Nismo/Auto Glym Holden pitted, dropping him to the rear. By lap 14 Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden pitted, falling to the rear. Jack Perkins falls back to last shortly afterwards.

Perkins held last until lap 32 when James Courtney in the #22 Mobil 1 HSV/Boost Mobile Holden crashed in turn 3 on lap 31, triggering the 1st Safety car of the race and dropping Courtney to the rear, 3 laps down. Courtney would eventually finish 25^th.

The biggest crash of the race came on lap 56, after contact between David Reynolds in the #9 Penrite Holden and Chaz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto/Navy Heath Ford. During the subsequent redress, Fabian Coulthard in the #12 - Ford bumped Reynolds, causing Reynolds to bump the wall and Coulthard to flip wildly at turn 11, ending Coulthard's race, and almost his weekend. Reynolds would finish 24^th, 3 laps down.

Rounding out the bottom five was Chaz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto/Navy Heath Ford after a pit-lane drive-through penalty for the contact with Reynolds and Jack Perkins in the #62 - Holden.

The bottom five

Fabian Coulthard	56 Laps	Crash
James Courtney	63 Laps	Running
David Reynolds	63 Laps	Running
Chaz Mostert	66 Laps	Running
Jack Perkins	66 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Taz Douglas	2	8	8
2	Tim Slade	2	4	5
3	Todd Kelly	2	3	5
4	Will Davison	2	3	3
5	Jack LeBrocq	2	2	2
6	Alex Rullo	1	11	14
7	Dale Wood	1	4	8
8	Aaren Russell	1	4	6
9	Jason Bright	1	4	5
10T	Nick Percat	1	3	5
10T	James Moffat	1	3	5
11	Tim Blanchard	1	2	2
11	Matthew Brabham	1	2	2
12	Simona De Silvestro	1	1	8
13T	Michael Caruso	1	1	2
13T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	2
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
13T	Fabian Coulthard	1	1	1
14	James Courtney	0	3	4
15	Alex Davison	0	2	4
16	Lee Holdsworth	0	2	3
17T	Karl Reindler	0	2	2
17T	David Reynolds	0	2	2
18T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	2
18T	Craig Lowndes	0	1	2
19T	Cameron McConville	0	1	1
19T	Garth Tander	0	1	1
19T	Richard Muscat	0	1	1
19T	Luke Youlden	0	1	1
19T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
20	David Russell	0	0	3
21T	Scott Pye	0	0	2
21T	Macauley Jones	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
22T	Andre Heimgartner	0	0	1
22T	Jack Perkins	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	14/6
3	Nissan Motorsports	9	7/9	8/9	19/9
4	Erebus Motorsports	4	3/4	2	15/4
5	Shell V-Power Racing	4	3/4	3/4	3/4
6	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	9	5/9	27/9	32/9
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	3/4	2
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	19/9
2	Holden	34	16/34	57/34	83/34
3	Ford	13	5/13	8/13	11/13

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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.