Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Gearshifter issue leaves Cameron Hill last, and leading, at Wanneroo

Saturday 29 April 2023

Gearshifter issue leaves Cameron Hill last, and leading, at Wanneroo

Cameron Hill picked up the 2^nd last-place finish of his career when his #35 Truck Assist Chevrolet finished under power, 7 laps down in the second race at Wanneroo. The finish came in Hill’s 8^th start and his 2^nd of the Season.

Cameron Hill is one of the rookies of 2023, alongside Declan Fraser and Matthew Payne. It has been a struggle, though a few mid-teens results show he has potential. He was 20^th in the 90-minute Practice session and improved to 19^th in Qualifying.

Declan Fraser in the #56 Tradie Ford started the race in the rear, but by the end of Lap 1 Cameron Hill in the #35 Truck Assist Chevrolet had fallen to last. Hill would continue losing ground to the backmarkers and pit on Lap 6 with a gear shifter failure, anchoring him to last, losing 7 laps in repairs.

The Bottom 5 was more interesting. David Reynolds in the #26 Penrite Ford was pushed into the sand at the final corner by Anton De Pasquale in the #11 Shell V-Power Ford, the dirt ingested caused Brake issues. Anton's 15-second time penalty plunged him into the Bottom Five.

Splitting Hill and De Pasquale was Tim Slade in the #23 Nulon Chevrolet lost 2 laps late in the race due to a Mechanical issue, and Thomas Randle in the #55 Castrol Ford. Declan Fraser in the #56 Tradie Ford rounded out the Bottom Five.

The Bottom Five

Cameron Hill	35 Laps	Running
Tim Slade	40 Laps	Running
Thomas Randle	42 Laps	Running
Anton De Pasquale	42 Laps	Running
Declan Fraser	42 Laps	Running

Driver Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Cameron Hill	2	3	4
2	Nick Percat	1	3	4
3	Declan Fraser	1	2	4
4	Jack Smith	1	2	3
5T	Mark Winterbottom	1	1	2
5T	Todd Hazelwood	1	1	2
7	Broc Feeney	1	1	1
8T	James Courtney	0	2	3
8T	Macauley Jones	0	2	3
10	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	3
11	Tim Slade	0	1	2
12T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	1
12T	Jack LeBrocq	0	1	1
12T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
12T	Will Brown	0	1	1
12T	Thomas Randle	0	1	1
17	James Golding	0	0	2
18T	Matthew Payne	0	0	1
18T	Cameron Waters	0	0	1
18T	Andre Heimgartner	0	0	1

Team Championship

Pos	Team	Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Matt Stone Racing	2	2/2	4/2	4/2
2	Tim Blanchard Racing	1	1	1	1
3T	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	3/2	4/2
3T	Red Bull/Ampol Racing	2	1/2	2/2	2/2
5	Team 18 Racing	2	1/2	1/2	1/2
6	Tickford Racing	4	1/4	4/4	9/4
7	Premair Hire Racing	2	0	2/2	3/2
8	Brad Jones Racing	4	1/4	3/4	6/4
9	Penrite Racing	2	0	2/2	3/2
10	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2

Manufacturer Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	14	5/14	14/14	20/14
2	Ford	11	3/11	10/11	20/11

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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.