Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Turn 5 Rookie collision leaves Golding last at Adelaide

Sunday 4 March 2018

Turn 5 Rookie collision leaves Golding last at Adelaide

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

James Golding picked up the 1^st last-place finish of his career when his #34 Wilson Security Ford was involved in a 4-car crash that ended his race after 55 of the race’s 78 laps. The finish came in Golding’s 13th start,

This is Golding's first full-time season with Gary Rodgers Motorsports, one of five rookies to run their first full-time season.

Golding was slowest in 1st Practice but jumped to 18th in Practice 2. Golding qualified 25th and was 19th in final practice.

Jack LeBrocq in the #19 SS Signs Holden started the race in the rear, however, by Turn 1 James Golding in the #34 Wilson Security Holden had fallen to the rear. By turn 8, Rick Kelly in the #15 Castrol/Sengled Nissan hit the wall at turn 3, damaging the right-rear Wishbone on car #15, sending him to the garage and to the rear, losing 13 laps in repairs.

Fabian Coulthard in the #12 Shell V-Power Ford attempted a pass on Richie Stanaway in the #56 Mega Bulk Fuels/Tickford Ford, but coming into turn 14, Coulthard rode over the right-rear of Stanaway's car, damaging the left-front of Coulthard's car, dropping 3 laps in repairs. The chaos of the following lap would eventually lift Coulthard out of the bottom five.

At turn 5, James Golding in the #34 Wilson Security Holden, Todd Hazelwood in the #35 Bigmate/Optus Ford and Richie Stanaway in the #56 Mega Bulk Fuels/Tickford Ford all tangled. Golding hit the rear of Stanawy, spinning both him and Hazelwood into the tires. Golding then slams into the left-rear of Hazelwood’s car, breaking the Wishbone on the left-rear of Hazelwood’s car and terminally damaging Golding’s car, also leaving Stanaway in the tire barrier, causing the second safety car of the race. Stanaway would go on to DNF after a Drivetrain failure on the last lap. Hazelwood would lose 3 laps in repairs and would finish between Rick Kelly and Coulthard.

Splitting Stanaway and Golding was Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden was nudged by Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Nissan into the wall at turn 8 on lap 59, triggering the third safety car of the race. Blanchard dropped to 2nd last on lap 71. This happened despite Simona De Silvestro being ahead at the 150m board before Turn 8, meaning De Silvestro should have had right of way.

The Bottom Five

James Golding	55 Laps	Crash
Tim Blanchard	58 Laps	Crash
Richie Stanaway	77 Laps	Drivetrain
Rick Kelly	65 Laps	Running
Todd Hazelwood	75 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver’s Name	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
James Golding	1	1	1
Tim Blanchard	0	1	1
Richie Stanaway	0	1	1
Rick Kelly	0	0	1
Todd Hazelwood	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team Name	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Gary Rodgers Motorsport	2	1/2	1/2	1/2
Brad Jones Racing	3	0	1/3	1/3
Tickford Racing	4	0	1/4	1/4
Matt Stone Racing	1	0	0	1
Nissan Motorsports	4	0	0	¼

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	14	1/14	2/14	2/14
Ford	8	0	1/8	2/8
Nissan	4	0	0	1/4

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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.