Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Reactions to Twitter clips: Scotty Mac and JDub.

Wednesday 7 August 2019

Reactions to Twitter clips: Scotty Mac and JDub.

So I decided to share this with people, and give some of my reactions to these clips. You can find the clips in the links. There are three clips to listen to and react to.

Reaction to this clip: https://twitter.com/i/status/1159018842514845696

So first off, Scott Pye's quote: "Every year, there's always someone - usually in the last half of that race - that messes it up"

There is a very simple reason why this tends to be the case. And this is because, after several hours of driving, you're tired, your reaction times aren't exactly as they were at the start of the race, the car's not quite where it was at the start of the race, everything's hot, and as a result, errors are much easier to make. And at a track like Bathurst, there's little to no room for error, and that is why you see rather a lot of crashes in the latter half of the race compared to the former half.

Reaction to this clip:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1159033942621769730

Ooof Scott, putting Bathurst above your fiancée? Harsh. He did say that it was only because Bathurst came first, but, I still reckon both getting married and winning Bathurst is equally momentous moments.

For getting married, that is a personal moment, while winning Bathurst is a professional moment.

And now we have the third comment. This one from Jamie Whincup.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1159056596053315584

https://twitter.com/i/status/1159056596053315584

For a list of what has happened involving Jamie Whincup to deny his a Bathurst.
-He ran out of fuel
-He drove past a Safety Car despite not being allowed to.
-His car suffered electrical issues.
-He was involved in a 3-car crash that ended Tander's race and heavily damaged McLaughlin's car.

So despite having 4 Bathurst's, he has thrown four more potential Bathursts away.

The quote "I feel like I've had a little bit of everything up there over the years" is so true in regards to Jamie Whincup.

So, just some quick thoughts on the clips released over the last 24 hours.

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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.