Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Lap 2 crash leaves Bright last in Sprint for the Grid.

Sunday, 16 September 2018

Lap 2 crash leaves Bright last in Sprint for the Grid.

Original by Supercars, edited by me.

Jason Bright picked up his 1st Race for the Grid last-place finish of his career when his #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden was involved in a single-car crash after 2 of the race's 20 laps.

Steve Owen in the #56 Rabble.club Ford started the race in the rear. Late on lap 1, Alex Rullo in the #78 Harvey Norman/LG Super UHD TV Retro Nissan collided with Warren Luff in the #2 Mobil 1/Boost Mobile Holden, and subsequently at the start of lap 2, Rullo went wildly off the road at turn 1, dropping to the rear. Rullo would eventually retire with brake issues on lap 14, having completed 12 laps.

Suddenly, on lap 3, Jason Bright in the #18 Preston Hire/Fuchs Holden was spun by Warren Luff in the #2 - Holden, ending his race and dropping him to the rear on lap 6.

Next to fall out was Bryce Fulwood in the #35 Bigmate/Optus Ford who was put in the fence by another car on lap 12, ending his race. Rullo followed Fulwood out shortly afterwards. Rounding out the Bottom Five is Richard Muscat in the #34 Wilson Security/Garry Rogers '83 Tribute Holden and Warren Luff in the #2 Mobil 1/Boost Mobile Holden.

The Bottom Five

Jason Bright	2 Laps	Crash
Bryce Fulwood	10 Laps	Crash
Alex Rullo	12 Laps	Brakes
Richard Muscat	19 Laps	Running
Warren Luff	19 Laps	Running

Race for the Grid Results

Chris Pither, Dale Wood, Andrew Jones, Andre Heimgartner, Richie Stanaway, Cameron Waters, Taz Douglas, Craig Lowndes, Jason Bright: 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.