Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Contact and Suspension failure ends race 2 for Tim Slade

Monday, 28 April 2014

Contact and Suspension failure ends race 2 for Tim Slade

Tim Slade picked up his 2^nd last-place finish of his career when his #47 Supercheap Auto Holden retired with crash damage after 4 of the race's 35 laps. The finish came in Slade's 85^th start.

The field had contracted to 24 cars after David Wall and the #17 Walkinshaw Racing holden withdrew from the remainder of the event. The second sprint race was an initial arm wrestle between several drivers early on. On lap 3 Tim Slade was battling with Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Brad Jones Racing Holden. Slade nudged Bright, nearly spinning him out. Then heading into turn 5 Bright dived on Slade, and heading out of turn 6 Slade and Bright bumped repeatedly, eventually breaking the left-front suspension on the #47.

Rounding out the bottom five was Robert Dahlgren in the #34 Valvoline Volvo, who brought out the caution when he stopped at the exit of pit-lane with smoke pouring from his Volvo, Jack Perkins after a spin and a tire failure which left him 2 laps down, Dale Wood in the #21 Wilson Security Holden and Michael Caruso in the #36 Norton Hornet Nissan.

The bottom five

Tim Slade	4 Laps	Crash
Robert Dahlgren	10 Laps	Power Steering
Jack Perkins	33 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	35 Laps	Running
Michael Caruso	35 Laps	Running

Lastcar Standings

Holden: 6

Ford: 4

Nissan: 3

Volvo: 2

Mercedes: 0

Todd Kelly: 3

Scott Pye, Dale Wood, David Wall: 2

David Reynolds, Nick Percat, Garth Tander, Robert Dahlgren, Scott McLaughlin, Tim Slade: 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.