Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Last Lap spin into the sand leaves Cameron Hill last at Albert Park.

Saturday 1 April 2023

Last Lap spin into the sand leaves Cameron Hill last at Albert Park.

Cameron Hill picked up the 1st last-place finish of his career when his #35 Truck Assist Chevrolet spun off the track and got stuck in the sand trap after 12 of the race's 13 laps. The finish came in Hill's 6th start.

Cameron Hill is one of the rookies of 2023, alongside Declan Fraser and Matthew Payne. He was 23rd in Practice 1 but rose to 20th in Practice 2 and remained 20th in Qualifying.

The field contracted to 24 cars after James Courtney's #5 Snowy Rivers Caravans Ford was withdrawn after the major fire in race 5.

David Reynolds in the #26 Penrite Ford started the race in the rear after contact with Will Brown in the #9 Coca-Cola Chevrolet caused steering damage. Tim Slade took over last during the second lap,

then during Lap 2 pitstops Cameron Hill in the #35 Truck Assist Chevrolet pitted and fell to last.

Will Brown in the #9 Penrite Chevrolet crashed on Lap 5, dropping him to last, losing 2 laps in repairs. Just as Will Brown was about to finish last Cameron Hill in the #35 Truck Assist Chevrolet spun into the same on the last lap, and with a DNF, dropped behind Brown.

Rounding out the Bottom 5 was Anton De Pasquale in the #11 Shell V-Power Ford copped a 15-second time penalty for an unsafe release into Jack LeBrocq, Declan Fraser in the #56 Tradie Ford and Nick Percat in the #2 NTI Ford.

The Bottom Five

Cameron Hill	12 Laps	Spun Off
Will Brown	11 Laps	Running
Anton De Pasquale	13 Laps	Running
Declan Fraser	13 Laps	Running
Nick Percat	13 Laps	Running

Driver Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Nick Percat	1	3	4
2	Declan Fraser	1	2	3
3T	Mark Winterbottom	1	1	2
3T	Todd Hazelwood	1	1	2
3T	Cameron Hill	1	1	2
6	Broc Feeney	1	1	1
7	James Courtney	0	2	3
8T	Jack Smith	0	1	2
8T	Macauley Jones	0	1	2
8T	Anton De Pasquale	0	1	2
11T	Shane Van Gisbergen	0	1	1
11T	Jack LeBrocq	0	1	1
11T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
11T	Will Brown	0	1	1
15	James Golding	0	0	2
16T	Tim Slade	0	0	1
16T	Matthew Payne	0	0	1

Team Championship

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

Manufacturer Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Ford	11	3/11	9/11	16/11
2	Chevrolet	14	3/14	9/14	14/14

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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.