Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Driveshaft failure leaves Waters last at Winton

Sunday 20 May 2018

Driveshaft failure leaves Waters last at Winton

Original by speedcafe, edited by me

Cameron Waters picked up his 3rd last-place finish of his career when his #6 Monster Energy Ford retired with Driveshaft failure after 28 of the race's 40 laps. The finish came in Waters’ 83rd start.

Todd Hazelwood in the #35 BigMate/Optus Ford started the race in the rear, however at turn 1 Jack LeBrocq in the #19 SS Signs Holden ran into David Reynolds in the #9 Penrite Oils Holden and Richie Stanaway in the #56 Mega Bulk Fuels Ford, spinning both LeBrocq and Stanaway, also damaging Reynolds’ car. Subsequently, Reynolds was hit by Simona De Silvestro in the #78 - Nissan. The resulting tire failure at turn 6 sent Reynolds into Hazelwood. The combination of incidents sending Reynolds to the garage with a bent steering arm, dropping Reynolds to last, losing 6 laps in repairs.

Reynolds held last until another driver came into the picture when, on lap 30, Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford suffered a Driveshaft failure, sending him to the garage. Reynolds dropped Waters to last on lap 36.

Rounding out the bottom five was Tim Blanchard in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden, after contact with Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Nissan sent him into the sand on lap 31, causing the only Safety Car of the race, dropping 2 laps while being retrieved, Lee Holdsworth in the #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden after contact with De Silvestro and James Golding in the #34 Wilson Security Holden and Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Nissan after a post-race reversal of penalties, so Golding was given 15 seconds back while Simona was penalised 15 seconds, leaving her 22^nd.

The Bottom Five

Cameron Waters	28 Laps	Driveshaft
David Reynolds	34 Laps	Running
Tim Blanchard	38 Laps	Running
Lee Holdsworth	39 Laps	Running
Simona De Silvestro	40 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver’s Name	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Richie Stanaway	1	6	7
2	James Golding	1	6	7
3	Tim Blanchard	1	4	8
4	Todd Hazelwood	1	3	7
5	James Courtney	1	2	2
6	Simona De Silvestro	1	1	7
7T	Rick Kelly	1	1	2
7T	Cameron Waters	1	1	2
8T	Jamie Whincup	1	1	1
8T	Garth Tander	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	Gary Rodgers Motorsport	2	1	7/2	8/2
2	Matt Stone Racing	1	1	3	7
3	Tickford Racing	4	2/4	7/4	8/4
4	Nissan Motorsports	4	3/4	6/4	13/4
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	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Drivers	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	3/4	5/4	12/4
Ford	7	4/7	11/7	17/7
Holden	15	6/14	21/14	35/14

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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.