ForestalWaif1 gained seven places from P8 to win Imola's D2 race for VCARB, making a first podium and first victory the same result.
MilitaryMaple18 moved from P6 to second for Red Bull, with Alpine pole-sitter PerfectPaulie88 finishing third.
Three starts without silverware, seven places to erase them
ForestalWaif1's first three starts had produced 25 points but no podium, split between Haas and VCARB. Imola did not merely improve the best finish; it moved the ceiling all the way from outside the top three to victory.
ForestalWaif1 had debuted for Haas at Abu Dhabi and changed to VCARB for Season 2. Four starts in D2 had yielded 50 points by Imola, with the fourth accounting for the first top-three finish and the first win.
VCARB makes the fourth start count
That seven-place gain did more than improve a personal best. It replaced a career without silverware with the maximum possible version of a breakthrough in one afternoon.
The first podium and first win arrived together, which is one way to make the wait look wonderfully efficient in retrospect. From eighth on the grid, nothing about the result was inherited.
