Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: May 2018

Sunday 20 May 2018

More mechanical gremlins leaves Waters leading LASTCAR championship after Winton

Original by speedcafe, edited be me.

Cameron Waters picked up his 4th last-place finish of his career when his #6 Monster Energy Ford finished under power, 5 laps down in the second race at Winton. The finish came in Waters’ 83rd start.

David Reynolds in the #9 Penrite Oils Holden started the race in the rear after suspension issues in qualifying, however before the start Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford suffered a broken Axel forcing him to the garage after the warm-up but before race start, dropping Waters to last, losing 4 laps in repairs. Waters would remain in last for the entirety of the race.

Rounding out the bottom five was James Golding in the #34 Wilson Security Holden, Todd Hazelwood in the #35 BigMate/Optus Holden, Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Nissan and Garth Tander in the #33 Wilson Security Holden after being spun by James Courtney in the #25 Mobil 1/Boost Holden late in the race.

The Bottom Five

Cameron Waters	62 Laps	Running
James Golding	67 Laps	Running
Todd Hazelwood	67 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	67 Laps	Running
Garth Tander	67 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver’s Name	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Cameron Waters	2	2	3
2	James Golding	1	7	8
3	Richie Stanaway	1	6	7
4	Tim Blanchard	1	4	8
5	Todd Hazelwood	1	4	8
6	James Courtney	1	2	2
7T	Simona De Silvestro	1	1	8
7T	Rick Kelly	1	1	2
8T	Garth Tander	1	1	2
8T	Jamie Whincup	1	1	1
8T	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
8T	Nick Percat	1	1	1
8T	Michael Caruso	1	1	1
9	Lee Holdsworth	0	2	6
10	Andre Heimgartner	0	2	2
11	Will Davison	0	1	2
12T	Craig Lowndes	0	1	1
12T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	1
12T	Michael Caruso	0	1	1
12T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
13	Jack LeBrocq	0	0	2
14	Anton De Pasquale	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Team Name	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Matt Stone Racing	1	1	4	8
2	Gary Rodgers Motorsport	2	1	8/2	9/2
3	Nissan Motorsports	4	4/4	7/4	14/4
4	Tickford Racing	4	3/4	8/4	9/4
5T	Brad Jones Racing	3	2/3	4/3	8/3
5T	Red Bull Holden Racing	2	1/2	2/2	2/2
7T	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	2/2	2/2
7T	Preston Hire Racing	1	0	3	6
8	23Red Racing	1	0	1	2
9	Craig Lowndes Racing	1	0	1	1
10	Tekno Autosports	1	0	0	2
11	Erebus Motorsports	2	0	0	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	3/4	5/4	13/4
Ford	7	4/7	12/7	19/7
Holden	15	7/14	23/14	37/14

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.