Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Many Crashes and Quit leaves Toby Price last at Bathurst

Monday 18 May 2020

Many Crashes and Quit leaves Toby Price last at Bathurst

Toby Price picked up his 1st last-place finish of his eSeries career when his #87 Red Bull Holden was involved in a crash that ended his race after 5 of the race's 8 laps. The finish came in Price's 2nd start.

After winning Race 1, John Steffensen in the #44 White King Holden started the race in the rear, but after being sent 100ft into the air, Mick Doohan in the #88 Holden/Red Bull Holden fell to the rear. Shortly afterwards Chad Reed in the #22 Boost Mobile/Airma Ford fell to last. By the end of lap 2 Peter Siddle in the #64 Adelaide Strikers/Hyper Stimulator Ford had fallen to the rear, follows by Dan Reardon in the #122 Fasthouse/Monster Energy Holden fell to the rear.

After a massive series of crashes, Greg Murphy in the #51 Sky Sport Ford, then Craig Lowndes in the #888 Holden/Red Bull Holden fell to the rear after getting suck in the fence between Turns 1 and 2, then Toby Price in the #87 Red Bull Holden fell to the rear and retired on Lap 7.

Rounding out the bottom five was Nathan Hindmarsh in the #40 Pirtek Ford, Craig Lowndes in the #888 Red Bull Holden after getting stuck in the fence, Greg Murphy in the #51 Team NZ Ford and Neil Crompton in the #7 Green-Eyed Monster, both after flipping.

The Bottom Five

Toby Price	5 Laps	Crash
Nathan Hindmarsh	7 Laps	Running
Craig Lowndes	7 Laps	Running
Greg Murphy	7 Laps	Running
Neil Crompton	7 Laps	Running

Celebrity Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Scott Pedder	4	1	1	1
Toby Price	87	1	1	1
Jarryd Hughes	15	0	1	1
Brad Hodge	77	0	1	1
Nathan Hindmarsh	40	0	1	1
Craig Lowndes	888	0	1	1
Jack Riewoldt	14	0	0	1
Carl Cox	62	0	0	1
Greg Murphy	51	0	0	1
Neil Crompton	7	0	0	1

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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.