Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Engine failure leaves Rick Kelly last at Winton

Saturday, 25 May 2019

Engine failure leaves Rick Kelly last at Winton

Original by Kelly Racing on Twitter, Edited by me.

Rick Kelly picked up his 9th last-place finish of his career when his #15 Sengled Nissan retired with Engine failure after 34 of the race's 67 laps. The finish came in Kelly's 536th start.

Rick Kelly is a veteran of this sport. He has been around since 2001, and has one controversial championship, won in 2006. he was 5th in Practice 1 but slid to 12th in Practice 2. Kelly would not improve, and be eliminated in Q1, lining up 12th.

Chris Pither in the #33 Boost Mobile Holden started the race in the rear after subbing in for Richie Stanaway, who pulled out due to neck troubles, but after falling off the road at Turn 7, Chaz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto Ford fell to the rear. Mostert then started climbing through the field, and on lap 3 he dropped Jack Smith in the #4 JCT Logistics Holden to the rear. Later in the race, Mostert would be penalised 15 seconds for his 2^nd pitstop on lap 28 after colliding with James Courtney in the #22 Mega Bulk Fuels Holden.

The first round of pitstops started on lap 4. During these pitstops, James Courtney in the #22 MEGA Bulk Fuels Holden on lap 4, Chaz Mostert in the #55 Supercheap Auto Ford on lap 5, Todd Hazelwood in the #35 - Holden on lap 7, Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan on lap 9. De Silvestro held last until lap 18 when Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden pitted and fell to last.

Disaster then strikes for Mark Winterbottom in the #18 Irwin Tools Holden on lap 20 after contact with Simona, damaging the tire and sending him to the pits, dropping a lap. He then had to serve a 15-second time penalty at his stop, dropping him further behind.

Just as it seemed like Frosty was going to get his first last-place finish in 6 years, Rick Kelly in the #15 Sengled Nissan suddenly slowed, pulled into the garage on lap 37, and retired with Engine failure, dropping him to last. Following Kelly out was Will Davison in the #23 Milwaukee Ford, after Transaxle failure on lap 57, triggering the only Safety Car of the race. Frosty would finish 22^nd.

Splitting Frosty and Davison was Simona De Silvestro in the #78 Harvey Norman Nissan. Rounding out the bottom five was Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden.

The Bottom Five

Rick Kelly	34 Laps	Engine
Will Davison	56 Laps	Transaxle
Simona De Silvestro	66 Laps	Running
Mark Winterbottom	66 Laps	Running
Jack Smith	66 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Garry Jacobson	3	2	4	7
Macauley Jones	21	1	4	6
Richie Stanaway	33	2	3	6
Rick Kelly	15	2	3	4
James Courtney	22	2	3	3
Jamie Whincup	88	2	2	2
Shane Van Gisbergen	97	1	2	3
Scott Pye	2	1	2	2
Chaz Mostert	55	1	1	1
Cameron Waters	6	0	3	3
Jack Smith	4	0	3	4
Simona De Silvestro	78	0	2	5
James Golding	34	0	2	2
Todd Hazelwood	35	0	2	2
Jack LeBrocq	19	0	1	9
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	1	2
Scott McLaughlin	17	0	1	1
Anton De Pasquale	99	0	1	1
Andre Heimgartner	7	0	1	1
Will Davison	23	0	1	1
Mark Winterbottom	18	0	0	2
Fabian Coulthard	12	0	0	1
Tim Blanchard	77	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Team	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	3/2	5/2	5/2
Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2	3/2	4/2	5/2
Nissan Motorsports	4	4/4	9/4	14/4
Garry Rodgers Motorsports	2	2/2	3/2	7/2
Brad Jones Racing	5	2/5	6/5	10/5
Tickford Racing	4	1/4	3/4	4/4
Matt Stone Racing	1	0	2	2
Tekno Autosports	1	0	1	8
DJR Team Penske	2	0	1/2	2/2
Erebus Racing	2	0	½	½
IRWIN Racing	1	0	0	2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Manufacturer	# Cars	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Nissan	4	4/4	10/4	16/4
Holden	14	8/14	24/14	39/14
Ford	6	2/6	5/6	8/6

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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.