Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Contact with “the enforcer” nets Percat last place at Tasmania

Monday 31 March 2014

Contact with “the enforcer” nets Percat last place at Tasmania

Nick Percat picked up his 1st last place finish of his career when his #222 Coates Hire Holden retired with crash damage after 8 of the race's 42 laps. The finish came in Percat's 3rd start.

After a penalty for a safety infringement, Craig Lowndes started the race in the rear. Will Davison then fell to the rear initially after bogging himself in the sand on the opening lap. A resulting melee between James Courtney, Robert Dahlgren, Michael Caruso, Russsell Ingall damaged several cars. Nick Percat then made contact with Russell Ingall on lap 8, sending both cars off the road and damaging the steering on the #222, and while he tried to complete the race, the car was too damaged to continue.

Rounding out the bottom five, and all the rest finished under power, Rick Kelly who got spun off the road late in the race by Chazz Mostert, Will Davison after his first lap bogging, and both Dale Wood and Russell Ingall who both suffered pit-lane penalties.

The bottom five

Nick Percat	8 Laps	Crash
Rick Kelly	40 Laps	Running
Will Davison	40 Laps	Running
Dale Wood	41 Laps	Running
Russel Ingall	41 Laps	Running

Lastcar Standings

Ford: 4

Nissan: 3

Holden: 2

Mercedes, Volvo: 0

Todd Kelly: 3

Scott Pye: 2

David Reynolds, David Wall, Dale Wood, Nick Percat: 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 Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last.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.