Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Kelly Brothers trails field at Launceston as Todd takes V8 LASTCAR lead

Monday 31 March 2014

Kelly Brothers trails field at Launceston as Todd takes V8 LASTCAR lead

Todd Kelly picked up his 15th last place finish of his career when his #7 Jack Daniel's Racing Nissan Altima retired with Suspension issues after 13 of the race's 42 laps. The finish came in Todd's 186^th start, and puts Todd Kelly into the lead of the 2014 V8 Lastcar championship.

Shane Van Gisbergen spent much of the early part of the race trailing the field after suffering a Mechanical Black Flag for loose bodywork. Van Gisbergen would recover, however and finish 12. Just before half-way Rick Kelly ran wide, and when he re-joined the track, he cut off Dean Fiore's #88 Dodo holden, Fiore was forced to go down and hit Todd Kelly, breaking the Upright on the #7 Jack Daniel's Racing Nissan, ending his race. After Todd's retirement Shane Van Gisbergen inherited second-last, which he held until Rick Kelly, Todd's team-mate, lost the brakes coming into turn 6, spinning off the track and causing the first caution of the race. Although he got rescued from the sand, he retired shortly afterwards.

The final three spot were fiercely fought, but the final three went to David Reynolds, who suffered a de-laminated tire on lap 35, Jack Perkins who tangled with Michael Caruso, resulting in a drive-through penalty for Jack, and Michael Caruso.

The Bottom Five

Todd Kelly	13 Laps	Suspenion
Rick Kelly	19 Laps	Brakes
David Reynolds	41 Laps	Running
Jack Perkins	42 Laps	Running
Michael Caruso	42 Laps	Running

Lastcar Standings

Ford: 4

Nissan: 3

Holden: 1

Mercedes, Volvo: 0

Todd Kelly: 3

Scott Pye: 2

David Reynolds, David Wall, Dale Wood: 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.