Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Multiple crashes leaves McLean last in Carnage led eSeries at Charlotte

Wednesday 25 August 2021

Multiple crashes leaves McLean last in Carnage led eSeries at Charlotte

Matt McLean picked up the 1st last-place finish of the 2021 eSeries event when his #54 Shure Holden was involved in multiple crashes that eventually ended his race after 33 of the race's 38 laps.

Sam Brabham in the #10 Brabham Mustang started the race in the rear, but immediately Tony D'Alberto in the #923 Logitech Mustang fell to the rear after contact.

Contact between Dylan O’Keefe in the #22 Premiair Hire Holden, Andre Heimgartner in the #7 NED Mustang and Matt McLean in the #54 Shure Holden left firstly McLean last, then OKeefe dropped to last shortly afterwards. Tony D'Alberto then crashed on Lap 11 trying to get into the pitlane.

Scott Pye in the #20 DeWalt entry lost 4 laps starting Lap 11, dropping to the rear Lap 15.

On the restart on lap 19, Tony D'Alberto, Sam Brabham, Scott Pye and Matt McLean were all fighting for the last place 3 laps down. Brabham lost 2 more laps in the chaos, despite a massive crash between the leaders, Jake Kostecki in the #35 Yellow Cover Holden and Matt Chada in the #18 Shannons Mustang.

Matt McLean had another massive crash on Lap 35 that ended his race and left him last.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was Sam Brabham in the #10 Repco Mustang Andre Heimgartner in the #7 NED Mustang, Scott Pye in the #20 DeWalt Holden and Jayden Ojeda in the #31 Swyftx Holden.

The Bottom Five

Matt McLean	33 Laps	Crash
Sam Brabham	33 Laps	Running
Andre Heimgartner	35 Laps	Running
Scott Pye	36 Laps	Crash
Jayden Ojeda	36 Laps	Running

The Bottom Five

Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Matt McLean	1	1	1
Sam Brabham	0	1	1
Andre Heimgartner	0	1	1
Scott Pye	0	0	1
Jayden Ojeda	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.