LASTCAR.info: Last-Place Finishers: The Clash

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Last-Place Finishers: The Clash

Last Update: February 5, 2023
(list does not include last-place finishers of Bud Shootout Qualifiers run from 1998-2000)

(4) Terry Labonte

(2) John Andretti, Geoffrey Bodine, Derrike Cope, Jeff Gordon, Erik Jones, David Pearson, Ricky Rudd

(1) Donnie Allison, Chuck Bown, Jeff Burton, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Bill Elliott, Harry Gant, Jeff Green, Bobby Hamilton, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Jimmy Hensley, P.J. Jones, Kasey Kahne, Brad Keselowski, Jason Leffler, Joey Logano, J.D. McDuffie, Jamie McMurray, Jimmy Means, Joe Milikan, Benny Parsons, Tim Richmond, Morgan Shepherd, Martin Truex, Jr., Darrell Waltrip, Michael Waltrip

*Both Bown and Ernie Irvan did not start the ‘95 running; Bown was officially credited with last place.
**Hamilton, Green, and Andretti (in his one start for Petty Enterprises) did not start their Petty cars in the field because the 43 team rendered itself ineligable for the Busch / Bud Pole Award.

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40 drivers start a NASCAR Cup Series race. 38 fill the grid in the XFINITY Series. 36 take the green in Trucks. Yet, even when the field is short, only a handful of these stories are ever told.

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LASTCAR's Official Definition of a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF)

For LASTCAR purposes, including rankings and statistics, a “last-place finisher” (LPF) shall be defined as any single NASCAR driver who, after earning a starting spot in the field for a NASCAR-sanctioned points-paying race against other NASCAR Cup, XFINITY, or Truck Series drivers, was at race’s conclusion classified as the last-ranked qualified driver in the field for said race. This classification must be recognized on official NASCAR results, or failing this, by a preponderance of unofficial sources. Only one driver can be classified as the LPF for any single NASCAR-sanctioned race.

So long as the above is met, the LPF can be any one driver classified as such for any reason, including but not limited to (1) a “did not start,” that is, an entrant who qualifies for a starting spot in the race, but for any reason is subsequently unable to start the event, including a post-qualifying driver switch if it is still recognized as the LPF in the results (2) an entrant who encounters an event once the race has started which prevents the driver from finishing ahead of any other qualified entrants, including both DNFs and a driver who finishes under power but laps down, (3) a decision to “start and park” the driver’s entry, (4) a disqualification handed down by NASCAR and/or track officials that subsequently classifies the driver in the final position behind the unofficial LPF.

LASTCAR shall not consider the LPF as anything else, including but not limited to (1) the lowest-ranked driver who finishes the race under power, (2) the fastest driver who does not qualify for the event in question, (3) a driver who was originally the LPF, but sometime after the race was usurped for the spot by a disqualified entrant NASCAR and/or track officials classified as the official LPF, (4) a driver who may be categorized as finishing last for exhibition events (these entrants shall be ranked only in the rankings for that event, and not commingled with LPFs).

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, LASTCAR rankings and statistics shall be updated to reflect that change.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Last-Place Finishers: The Clash

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