Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: First-lap pileup leaves Holdsworth last at Auckland

Sunday 5 November 2017

First-lap pileup leaves Holdsworth last at Auckland

Original by Supercars, Screenshot and edit by me

Lee Holdsworth picked up his 15th last-place finish of his career when his #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden was involved in a multi-car crash that ended his race after 1 of the race's 70 laps. The finish came in Holdsworth's 381st start.

Aaren Russel in the #3 Plus Fitness Holden started the race in the rear, however by turn 1 Jack Perkins in the #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden had fallen to last. At turn 8, calamity struck for Prodrive Racing.

Coming into turn 8, Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford collided with Mark Winterbottom in the #5 The Bottle-O/Castrol/Mercury Cider Ford, sending him into, and spinning, Chaz Mostert in the #55 Superchear Auto/Navy Health Ford. The resulting concertina collected Lee Holdsworth in the #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden, Will Davison in the #19 Woodstock Bourbon Holden and James Courtney in the #22 Mobil 1 HSV Racing/Bost Mobile Holden. While briefly Mostert took last, by the end of lap 2 Holdsworth had pulled into the garage and dropped to last., with Courtney following Holdsworth out on lap 7. Davison would finish 23rd, 3 laps off the leaders.

Splitting Courtney and Davison is Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Rd Bull Holden Racing Team Holden after slamming into the back of Tim Slade in the #14 Freightliner Holden on lap 16, losing 14 laps in repairs. Rounding out the bottom five was Jack Perkins in the #62 Repair Management/Castrol Holden.

The Bottom Five

Lee Holdsworth	1 Lap	Crash
James Courtney	5 Laps	Crash
Shane Van Gisbergen	56 Laps	Running
Will Davison	67 Laps	Running
Jack Perkins	68 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	4
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	Lee Holdsworth	1	3	4
12	Tim Blanchard	1	2	2
12	Matthew Brabham	1	2	2
13	Simona De Silvestro	1	1	8
14T	Michael Caruso	1	1	2
14T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	2
15T	Rick Kelly	1	1	1
15T	Cameron Waters	1	1	1
15T	Ashley Walsh	1	1	1
15T	Scott McLaighlin	1	1	1
15T	Alexandre Premat	1	1	1
15T	Fabian Coulthard	1	1	1
16	James Courtney	0	4	5
17	Alex Davison	0	2	4
18	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	2	3
19T	Karl Reindler	0	2	2
19T	David Reynolds	0	2	2
20T	Craig Lowndes	0	1	2
21T	Cameron McConville	0	1	1
21T	Garth Tander	0	1	1
21T	Richard Muscat	0	1	1
21T	Luke Youlden	0	1	1
21T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
22	David Russell	0	0	3
23T	Scott Pye	0	0	2
23T	Macauley Jones	0	0	2
23T	Jack Perkins	0	0	2
24T	Warren Luff	0	0	1
24T	James Golding	0	0	1
24T	Mark Winterbottom	0	0	1
24T	Dean Canto	0	0	1
24T	Chris Pither	0	0	1
24T	Andre Heimgartner	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Team	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Tekno Autosports	2	1	3/2	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	10	1/2	27/10	33/10
7	Preston Hire Racing	2	1/2	5/2	3
8	Prodrive Racing Australia	8	1/4	5/8	1
9	Gary Rodgers Motorsports	5	1/5	4/5	7/5
10	Charlie Schwerkolt Racing	2	0	2	2
11	Vortex Racing	2	0	1/2	1
12	Walkinshaw Racing	4	0	1	9/4
13	Holden Red Bull Racing	4	0	1/2	3/4

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	17/34	60/34	88/34
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.