Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Early race contact leaves Cameron Waters last at Hidden Valley.

Saturday 22 August 2020

Early race contact leaves Cameron Waters last at Hidden Valley.

Original by Supercars/Fox Sports, Edited by me.

Cameron Waters picked up his 6th last-place finish of his career when his #6 Monster Energy Ford was involved in a 2-car incident that ended his race after 6 of the race's 38 laps. The finish came in Waters' 143rd start.

A find of Grant Denyer's Bathurst Challenge, Cameron Waters has proven that he is worthy of being on the grid. He was 4th in Practice 1, but slipped to 6th in Practice 2. He stayed 6th for Qualifying.

Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden started the race in the rear, but at the start Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden fell to the rear. Smith fell to the rear shortly afterwards. The start of lap 2 saw Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden had fallen to the rear. Smith and Goddard would exchange last a few times during the opening few laps.

Lap 5 saw Chris Pither in the #22 Coca-Cola Holden pit and drop to the rear.

Disaster strikes on lap 6 for Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Ford, contact with Jamie Whincup in the #88 Red Bull Holden, damaging the Steering on Waters' car, dropping him to last.

Rounding out the bottom five was Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden, Rick Kelly in the #15 Castrol Ford had problems getting the right-front wheel off and on the car on lap 29, Zane Goddard in the #34 UNIT Holden and Alex Davison in the #19 Local Legends Jerky Biltong Holden.

The Bottom Five

Cameron Waters	6 Laps	Crash
Jack Smith	38 Laps	Running
Rick Kelly	38 Laps	Running
Zane Goddard	38 Laps	Running
Alex Davison	38 Laps	Running

Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	#35	3	5	7
Alex Davison	#19	2	4	8
Zane Goddard	#34	2	2	5
Jake Kostecki	#34	1	5	5
Jack Smith	#4	1	5	8
Nick Percat	#8	1	2	2
Scott Pye	#20	1	2	3
Fabian Coulthard	#12	1	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	#55	1	1	1
Cameron Waters	#6	1	1	1
Chris Pither	#22	0	5	10
Macauley Jones	#3	0	4	6
Anton De Pasquale	#99	0	2	2
James Courtney	#19	0	1	1
Rick Kelly	#15	0	1	1
Bryce Fullwood	#2	0	0	3
Todd Hazelwood	#14	0	0	3
Shane Van Gisbergen	#97	0	0	1
David Reynolds	#9	0	0	1
Scott McLaughlin	#17	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team Name	No. Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Matt Stone Racing	3	6/3	12/3	17/3
Team 18	2	3/2	3/2	7/2
Brad Jones Racing	4	2/4	11/4	18/4
DJR Team Penske	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
Tickford Racing	4	2/4	2/4	2/4
Team Sydney	2	0	9/2	15/2
Penrite Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2
Kelly Racing	2	0	1/2	1/2
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	0	0	3/2
Red Bull Holden	2	0	0	1/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer Name	No. Card	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Holden	16	12/16	41/16	70/16
Ford	8	3/8	4/8	5/8

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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.