Darth Ussh won Japan's E1 race from pole and scored 35 points, taking the eight-point advantage he carried from Australia and turning it into a final margin of 16 over TheIceman729.
TheIceman729 scored 27 and finished the season on 267 points to Ussh's 283. Japan therefore settled the championship with the leader's own race win, rather than through a result elsewhere in the classification.
Pole, victory — and a P18 charge behind
JGelinas11 gained one place to finish second from P3 for McLaren. MilitaryMaple18 supplied the podium's very different route, advancing 15 positions from P18 to third for Mercedes. Ussh, by contrast, completed the cleanest line on the page: P1 to P1.
The classification records where those drives began and ended, not how the places changed hands. What it does establish is that Japan's E1 podium joined an unchanged pole-sitter to the round's largest documented gain among its top three.
A title fight that kept changing its mind
Ussh's lead was 29 after Jeddah, 10 after Baku, 12 after Brazil and eight after Australia. That sequence refused the comfort of a simple trend: TheIceman729 closed rapidly, Ussh checked the movement, and Australia compressed it again.
Japan finally broke the oscillation. Ussh's 35-27 scoring advantage restored eight points in one afternoon, producing the same 16-point final gap by which 283 exceeded 267. The arithmetic ended where the race began—with Ussh in front.
