Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Spin and Rocks leave Davison last at Phillip Island

Sunday, 23 April 2017

Spin and Rocks leave Davison last at Phillip Island

Will Davison picked up his 16th last-place finish of his career when his #19 Woodstock Holden retired with an Oil Pressure problem without completing a single lap of the sixth race at Phillip Island. The finish came in Davison's 366th race start.

Taz Douglas started the race in the rear in the #3 Repair Management Australia Holden, however almost immediately Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia Holden fell to last. At turn 2, more chaos ensued, though not as bad as in Race 1.

At turn 2 Nick Percat in the #8 BOC Holden made contact with Will Davison in the #19 Woodstock Holden, sending him into Jason Bright in the #56 MEGA Bulk Fuels Ford and Scott Pye in the #2 Mobil 1 HSV Racing Holden casting all three off the road. Davison got bogged in the wet grass, triggering the first safety car of the race. Shortly after Davison was retrieved, he stalled near the entrance to pit-lane, requiring the combined crew of Davison and Craig Lowndes in the #888 Caltex Vortex Holden to push Davison to the garage, leaving him last.

Troubles early in the race eventually forced Bright to the garage on lap 5, losing 7 laps to repair a Broken Front Bar and Front Bar Mount. Rounding out the Bottom Five was Taz Douglas in the #3 Repair Management Australia Holden, Craig Lowndes in the #888 Caltex Vortex Holden after a late-race tire failure and Alex Rullo in the #62 Repair Management Australia Holden.

The Bottom Five

Will Davison	0 Laps	Oil Pressure
Jason Bright	50 Laps	Running
Taz Douglas	55 Laps	Running
Craig Lowndes	56 Laps	Running
Alex Rullo	57 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Will Davison	2	3	3
2	Taz Douglas	1	4	4
3T	Dale Wood	1	2	2
3T	Nick Percat	1	2	2
4	Jason Bright	1	2	2
5	Alex Rullo	0	4	4
6T	David Reynolds	0	1	1
6T	Tim Blanchard	0	1	1
7	Todd Kelly	0	0	2
8T	Simona De Silvestro	0	0	1
8T	Michael Caruso	0	0	1
8T	James Courtney	0	0	1
8T	Scott Pye	0	0	1
8T	James Moffat	0	0	1
8T	Lee Holdsworth	0	0	1
8T	Craig Lowndes	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Team	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Tekno Autosports	1	2	3	3
2	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports	2	1/2	11/2	7
3	Erebus Motorsports	2	1/2	1	1
4	Brad Jones Racing	3	1/3	2	2
5	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	1/4	1/2	1/2
6	Nissan Motorsports	4	0	0	1
7	Walkinshaw Racing	2	0	0	1
8	Preston Hire Racing	1`	0	0	1
9	Vortex Racing	1	0	0	1
10	Gary Rodgers Motorsports	2	0	0	½

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Driver	No. Drivers in Manufacturer	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Holden	16	5/16	15/16	23/16
2	Ford	6	1/6	2/6	2/6
3	Nissan	4	0	¼	2

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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.