Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Clutch Failure leaves Davison last Adelaide

Sunday 1 March 2015

Clutch Failure leaves Davison last Adelaide

Will Davison picked up his 12^th last-place finish of his career when his #9 Solar Erebus Mercedes lost the Clutch before the start of the race. The finish came in Davison's 133^rd start.

In the first race Will Davison in the #9 Solar Erebus Mercedes suffered an engine issue after bounding over the kerbs at turn 2, and carryover damage from race 1 included Clutch drama which eventually ended his race.

Rounding out the bottom five is Chazz Mostert in the #6 Pepsi Max Ford, who crashed out at turn 8 on lap 4, Michael Caruso in the #23 Nismo's Nissan who firstly tangled with Mark Winterbottom in the #5 Pepsi Max Ford and David Reynolds in the #55 Bottle-O Ford on lap 15, the tire then went flat on the following lap, sending Caruso into the wall at turn 8, ending his race, Tim Slade in the #47 Supercheap Auto Holden after breaking the left-front suspension after contact with Shane Van Gisbergen in the #97 STIX Holden in turn 9 on lap 26 and 6-time Australian V8 Supercar champion Jamie Whincup in the #1 Red Bull Holden who suffered a left-rear puncture on lap 27, dropping him to the final spot on the bottom five.

The Bottom Five

Will Davison	0 Laps	Clutch
Chazz Mostert	3 Laps	Crash
Michael Caruso	16 Laps	Crash
Tim Slade	25 Laps	Crash
Jamie Whincup	39 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin, Will Davison: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports (2 drivers, 1 last-place finish), Erebus Motorsports (2 drivers, 1 last-place finish):0.5

Manufacturer's Championship:

Volvo, Mercedes: 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.