Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Late-Race crashes leaves Rick Kelly last at Michigan International Speedway

Wednesday 3 June 2020

Late-Race crashes leaves Rick Kelly last at Michigan International Speedway

Rick Kelly picked up his 3^rd last-place finish of his eSeries career when his #15 Castrol Ford finished under power, 2 Laps down in the first race at Michigan. The finish came in Kelly’s 27^th start, and moves him to 2^nd in the Supercars eSeries last-place championship.

James Courtney in the #44 Boost Mobile Holden started the race in the rear, but after a massive crash on lap 2 Jake Kostecki in the #344 NTL Holden had fallen to last. After last-place switched between several drivers, Michael Caruso in the #10 Castrol/BP Ford had fallen to the rear.

By the end of the race, however, Rick Kelly in the #15 Castrol Ford had fallen to the rear, with Jamie Whincup in the #88 Red Bull Holden just in front. Rounding out the bottom five was Michael Caruso in the #10 Monster Energy Ford, Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden and James Courtney in the #44 Boost Mobile Holden.

The Bottom Five

Rick Kelly	26 Laps	Running
Jamie Whincup	26 Laps	Running
Michael Caruso	26 Laps	Running
Chris Pither	26 Laps	Running
James Courtney	27 Laps	Running

eLASTCAR Championship: Drivers

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Jack Smith	4	4	12	19
Rick Kelly	15	3	6	7
Macauley Jones	3	3	5	7
Josh Fife	140	3	3	3
Jake Kostecki	33	2	5	6
Garry Jacobson	35	2	2	2
Chris Pither	22	1	6	15
James Courtney	44	1	4	5
Mark Winterbottom	18	1	3	3
Bryce Fullwood	2	1	3	3
Lando Norris	04	1	2	2
Fabian Coulthard	12	1	1	2
Scott McLaughlin	17	1	1	2
Nick Percat	8	1	1	2
Alexander Rossi	27	1	1	1
Brock Feeny	99	1	1	1
Jamie Whincup	88	0	4	7
Will Davison	23	0	3	3
Scott Pye	20	0	3	5
Alex Davison	3	0	2	6
Todd Hazelwood	35	0	1	4
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	3
Zane Goddard	33	0	1	4
David Reynolds	9	0	1	2
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	2
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	1	2
Shame Van Gisbergen	97	0	1	2
Craig Lowndes	888	0	1	2
Joey Logano	56	0	1	1
Matt Chada	32	0	1	1
Cameron Waters	6	0	1	1
Michael Caruso	10	0	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	55	0	0	2
Chaz Mostert	25	0	0	2
Angelo Mozouris	10	0	0	1
Jack Doohan	33	0	0	1
Andre Heimgartner	7	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Teams

Team	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Brad Jones Racing	5	11/5	19/5	33/5
Matt Stone Racing	3	3/3	7/3	11/3
Rick Kelly Racing	4	4/4	74	11/4
Walkinshaw Andretti United	5	4/5	7/5	9/5
Irwin Tools Racing	4	2/4	7/4	9/4
Tickford Racing	8	2/8	10/8	13/8
DJR Team Penske	7	2/7	3/7	5/7
Team Sydney	2	0	8/2	19/2
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	8	0	7/8	13/8
Erebus Motorsports	4	0	2/4	5/4
MW Motorsports	1	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Manufacturer

Manufacturer	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	31	19/31	62/31	107/31
Ford	18	8/18	19/18	28/18

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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.