LASTCAR.info: December 2013

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Robert Taylor / LASTCAR Charity Auction Update!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in last week's LASTCAR Charity Auction, including everyone who bid, RaceTalkRadio.com and Jayski for promoting it, and of course artist Robert Taylor for contributing his incredible works!

Thanks to you, we raised $72.00 to benefit research for Parkinson's Disease through a donation to the Michael J. Fox Foundation!

To the winner of the auction, your drawings will be in the mail this afternoon along with your code for a free copy of my first LASTCAR book.

Happy Holidays, everyone, and stay tuned as we count down the final 50 days before the Sprint Unlimited at Daytona and the sixth season of LASTCAR!

Friday, December 13, 2013

LASTCAR Charity Auction! - Now Through December 23!

I am thrilled to announce an exciting new charity auction on eBay presented by myself and motorsports artist Robert Taylor!

Recall those three drawings Robert did for the Homestead posts of Michael McDowell, Jeff Green, and Chris Lafferty? Now you can bid on the original drawings! The auction can be found right here.

As reported here in October, Robert Taylor is an inspiring artist. He suffered from Parkinson's Disease in 2005, which for a time prevented him from doing his artwork. But, thanks to new treatments, he is churning out artwork more than ever before! In honor of Robert's journey, I am offering three of his works for sale with 100% of the proceeds to be given to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research!

The winner of the auction will receive the following:

*Three original 10.5" x 14" drawings of Michael McDowell (#98 Phil Parsons Racing Ford), Jeff Green (#10 TriStar Motorsports Toyota) and Chris Lafferty (#0 Koma Unwind Chevrolet), all signed by Robert Taylor.

*PLUS a letter with a code for a FREE copy of my eBook “LASTCAR: The First Year-By-Year Chronicle of Last-Place Finishers in the NASCAR Cup Series (1949-2013).”

There is no reserve price, free standard shipping, so what are you waiting for? Place your bid today and pick up a unique one-of-a-kind memento of LASTCAR history!

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Formulast One: Statistics About the First Retirements of Grand Prix (1950-2013) - ON SALE NOW!

I am pleased to announce the release of another new last-place book, and my first non-NASCAR volume. This is “Formulast One!”

For those of you who visited this site in 2012, the material in this book was originally on a second website of the same name. The site used a similar format to LASTCAR, only it dealt with the last-place finishers of Formula One races. Unfortunately, the site did not take off, so I decided to take it down and publish the statistics in their own book.

The good news is that for $2.99, you can now get those statistics and more!

*A complete annotated season-by-season, race-by-race list of the last-place finishers of every Formula One event run from 1950 through the present, organized by date, listing the driver’s nation of origin, car number, chassis and engine manufacturer, and indicating how many last-place finishes each driver had scored to that point.

*Season-ending rankings showing which driver(s) scored the most last-place finishes at the end of each season.

*Rankings originally published on “Formulast One,” now current through the 2013 season, which rank the most finishes by driver, country, chassis manufacturer, and engine manufacturer.

For $2.99, you can download my book to your computer on Amazon.com or in virtually any format, including Microsoft Word and PDF, at Smashwords.com. Both web sites include a free sample of my book that can be downloaded on any device.

And, just like my other three books, those who purchase this book will also have it updated for free at the end of the 2014 season.

So, if you’d like a little something different, be sure to pick this one up!

Sincerely,
Brock, LASTCAR

Monday, December 2, 2013

LASTCAR: Cup Series Last-Place Finishers By Track - ON SALE NOW!

Do you know which driver has the most last-place finishes in the Daytona 500?

Or which driver finished last the most at North Wilkesboro Speedway?

Or which drivers picked up their first career last-place finishes at Richmond?

Find out in my newest eBook, “LASTCAR: Cup Series Last-Place Finishers By Track (1949-2013).”

This eBook contains a brand-new collection of last-place statistics, organized alphabetically by track.

For just $2.99, you'll get:

*Never-before-published articles about every track on which the Cup Series has competed since 1972, organized in a track-by-track format, including tracks no longer run today such as Riverside International Raceway and North Wilkesboro Speedway!

*Complete rankings since 1949 showing which drivers have the most last-place finishes at each of those Cup Series tracks, current through 2013!

*Detailed lists for every track about which drivers scored their first Cup Series last-place finishes at that track!

*Expanded information on the last-place finishers of today’s exhibition races, including the Sprint Unlimited at Daytona and the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race!

*Profiles of notable last-place finishers and other significant last-place moments that occurred at each track!

To get your copy for just $2.99, click here to get it at Amazon or if you prefer a different format, you can get it here at Smashwords! Both web sites include a free sample of my book that can be downloaded on any device.

Like my other two books, those who purchase this book will also have it updated for free at the end of the 2014 season!

And in case you haven't heard, my two previous LASTCAR books have been updated through the 2013 season! Click here for more details!

Thank you for supporting LASTCAR these past five years and stay tuned - I have two more LASTCAR books coming later this winter!

Sincerely,
Brock, LASTCAR

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by Brock Beard

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.

The mission of LASTCAR.info is to fill in these missing pieces one week at a time, especially regarding the least-covered racers in motorsports - the last-place finishers.

Since 2009, LASTCAR.info has covered the untold "race" for the most last-place finishes in NASCAR history - and, in doing so, continues to chronicle the trials and triumphs of those who race for something as meaningful as victory: survival.

New NASCAR articles and statistical updates are added following each Monster Energy NASCAR Cup, XFINITY, and Truck Series race weekend, plus driver features, historical retrospectives, editorials, and more.

E-Mail: brockbeard@gmail.com

Twitter: @LASTCARonBROCK

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.