Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: DJR Team Penske penalties APPLIED!

Saturday 19 October 2019

DJR Team Penske penalties APPLIED!

The penalty has been delivered.

So, DJR Team Penske has been hit with a $250,000 fine and docked 300 team points. Scott McLaughlin and Alex Premat keet their victory, Fabian Coulthard and Tony D'Alberto were dumped from 6th to 21st in the standings, the last car on the lead lap.

This is the maximum penalty that can be given out to a team, and so I'm OK with this result, mostly.

I still personally think that Ryan Story should face a sanction himself, as he was the one who commanded Fabian Coulthard to slow up and disadvantage most of the field. Although (getting a little conspiratorial for this next bit) Rodger Penske was the one who made the original order, and Ryan Story was just the one who gave the order.

Anyway, back to seriousness, 46 seconds is an enormous amount of time to hold the entire field up for. And it was commanded by Ryan Story, again, maybe on ordered from Penske.

Of course, the Fordtard conspiracy theorists are out in force, complaining about RBHRT getting away with "something similar" a couple of years ago, even though in the case of RBHRT it was only the two team cars affected, while in Coulthard's case there were as many a 5 drivers who would have gotten out of the pitlane ahead of Scott McLaughlin and Jamie Whincup. In addition, cars #21 and #78 would have likely gotten back on the lead lap.

Here is the link to the full stewards summary, it's long but VERY detailed.
https://dscxx9mer61ho.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/49.0-Stewards-Decision-123-DJRTP-Car-12.pdf

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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.