Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Post-Race Exclusion leaves Stanaway last at Albert Park

Saturday 16 March 2019

Post-Race Exclusion leaves Stanaway last at Albert Park

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Richie Stanaway picked up his 4th last-place finish of his career when his #33 Boost Mobile Holden was disqualified from the 3rd race at Albert Park after -25 of the race's 25 laps. The finish came in Stanaway's 43rd start. He was also ordered to start the 4th race from last and in the pit-lane (I reckon he should start the race in the wall).

Stanaway is in his 2nd season of Supercars action, switching to Garry Rodgers Motorsport after he was dropped from Tickford racing. He was 11th in Practice 1 but plummeted to 18th in Practice 2. He recovered slightly to qualify 17th.

Although Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford and Scott McLaughlin in the #17 Bottle-O Ford failed to even make it to the grid, Richie Stanaway in the #33 Boost Mobile Holden was disqualified for dangerous driving involving Lee Holdsworth in the #18 Bottle-O Ford, including Stanaway trying to put Holdworth in the wall sending him to last.

Disaster struck for the 2nd race this round for Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 Red Bull/Holden Holden, losing a wheel after his pit-stop, triggering the only safety car of the race. Van Gisbergen would finish 2 laps down. Rounding out the bottom five was Macauley Jones in the #21 Cooldrive Distribution Holden.

The Bottom Five

Richie Stanaway	-25 Laps	Disqualified
Cameron Waters	0 Laps	Did Not Start
Scott McLaughlin	0 Laps	Did Not Start
Shane Van Gisbergen	23 Laps	Running
Macauley Jones	25 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	1	2	4
Rick Kelly	15	1	2	2
Shane Van Gisbergen	97	1	1	2
Richie Stanaway	33	1	1	1
Scott Pye	2	1	1	1
Macauley Jones	21	0	2	3
Cameron Waters	6	0	2	2
Scott McLaughlin	17	0	1	1
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	1
Todd Hazelwood	35	0	1	1
James Golding	34	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	0	3
Fabian Coulthard	12	0	0	1
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan Motorsports	4	1/2	1	7/4
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	2	1/2	1	1
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	½	½	½
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2	½	½	1
Matt Stone Racing	1	0	1	1
Tickford Racing	4	0	3/4	3/4
Brad Jones Racing	3	0	2/3	1
DJR Team Penske	2	0	1/2	1
Tekno Autosports	1	0	0	3

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	2/4	4/4	7/4
Holden	14	2/14	7/14	12/14
Ford	6	1/8	2/6	3/6

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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.