Uhmm What9409 climbed from 11th on the Portugal D3 grid to finish second and take a first IMS podium for Kick Sauber. QwAsey reet won from pole, with Her Wet Cat third from second.
The nine-place recovery was the only route into the top three from outside the first row. It placed Uhmm What between the winner and the championship leader, both of whom had started ahead.
One result carries Kick Sauber's podium count
Kick Sauber scored 61 BOTT points from six starts, with one podium and two top-five finishes. Uhmm What's 24 points accounted for almost two-fifths of the team total.
Haas also scored 61, but SleekMover's D1 victory gave it the stronger countback. Kick Sauber's equal points came from fewer starts and a podium achieved from much deeper on the grid.
Her Wet Cat leaves with a 12-point lead
Her Wet Cat's third place moved the Ferrari driver to 105 points, 12 ahead of NesbiLeGrand. Uhmm What's breakthrough shared the podium with the title leader without borrowing that separate championship story.
Portugal sent Uhmm What to Texas with the cleanest possible addition to the record: P11 had become P2. The absent lap order limits the reconstruction, but not the scale of the result.
