Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Rick Kelly last after spectacular flip at Philip Island

Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Rick Kelly last after spectacular flip at Philip Island

Rick Kelly picked up hs 1^st last-place finish of his eSeries Supercars career when his #15 Castrol Ford was involved in a two-car crash that ended his race after 3 of the race’s 9 laps. The finish came in Kelly’s first start.

Due to Coronavirus, the IRL racing is illegal, so the Supercars drivers are racing virtually.

Chris Pither in the #20 Coca-Cola Holden started the race in the rear but by Turn 2 Macauley Jones in the #3 Cooldrive Distribution Holden had fallen to last after an incident with one of the Matt Stone racing entries.

On lap 4, however, Rick Kelly had to get something, and by the time he returned, his car was 50 feet in the air, doing a massive series of barrel rolls. Of course, car #15 was out.

Rounding out the Bottom 5 was JackLeBrocq in the #55 Supercheap Auto Ford, seeming to have connection problems, eventually retiring half-way through the race, Jack Smith in the #4 SCT Logistics Holden who had drama during the race, and both Lee Holdsworth and David Reynolds, the former in the #5 Bottle-O Ford and the latter in the #9 Penrite Oils Holden, after contact late in the race damaged both their cars.

The Bottom Five

Rick Kelly	3 Laps	Crash
Jack LeBrocq	5 Laps	Internet Connection?
Jack Smith	7 Laps	Running?
Lee Holdsworth	8 Laps	Running
David Reynolds	8 Laps	Running

eLASTCAR Championship: Drivers

Driver	Car #	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Rick Kelly	15	1	1	1
Jack LeBrocq	55	0	1	1
Jack Smith	4	0	1	1
Lee Holdsworth	5	0	0	1
David Reynolds	9	0	0	1

eLASTCAR Championship: Teams

Team	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Rick Kelly Racing	2	1/2	1/2	1/2
Tickford Racing	4	0	1/4	2/4
Brad Jones Racing	4	0	1/4	1/4
Erebus Motorsports	2	0	0	1/2

eLASTCAR Championship: Manufacturer

Manufacturer	# Entries	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
Ford	8	1/8	2/8	3/8
Holden	17	0	1/17	2/17

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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.