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Season 2 in Review: five champions, 11 rounds and a record book rewritten

Piastrigoat, ForestalWaif1, Her Wet Cat, Darth Ussh and quenooo29 finish first in their divisions as Ferrari claims the inaugural BOTT crown overall.

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Championship review

Who took the titles

TitleChampionDecidedMargin
WDCD1piastrigoatSeason 2 championR11Japan+37TheMekanic17
WCCD1FerrariSeason 2 championR11Japan+31Red Bull
WDCE1Darth UsshSeason 2 championR11Japan+16TheIceman729
WCCE1FerrariSeason 2 championR10Australia+98Red Bull
WDCD2ForestalWaif1Season 2 championR10Australia+58PerfectPaulie88
WCCD2VCARBSeason 2 championR10Australia+129Alpine
WDCE2quenooo29Season 2 championR10Australia+59JPlanteX
WCCE2McLarenSeason 2 championR11Japan+32Ferrari
WDCD3Her Wet CatSeason 2 championR10Australia+56Duxnuts69
WCCD3FerrariSeason 2 championR9Monaco+148Aston Martin
BOTTALLFerrariSeason 2 championR11Japan+440Red Bull

Season 2 crowned piastrigoat in D1, ForestalWaif1 in D2, Her Wet Cat in D3, Darth Ussh in E1 and quenooo29 in E2 after 11 F1 24 rounds. Their final championship margins ranged from 16 points to 70.

Ferrari won the first BOTT campaign on 1,801 points, 440 ahead of Red Bull. It also finished first in the D1, D3 and E1 constructors' tables; VCARB took D2 and McLaren took E2.

Silverstone opens the season from the back rows

Thalo4 won the opening D1 race from 15th and Darth Ussh took D2 from 14th, while Her Wet Cat won D3 and RangoTheMerc E1. Ferrari's 142 points established the first BOTT lead; three rounds later, nobody had displaced it.

Imola pushed the scale upward. Ferrari won three divisions, scored 178 points and led Red Bull by 144 overall, while Her Wet Cat's 29.662-second D3 victory established the largest winning margin of the season.

Canada supplied the recovery that remained untouched: Duxnuts69 won D3 from 18th, passing the opening round's already improbable P15 and P14 victories. The result cut Her Wet Cat's championship advantage from 39 points to two.

The Hungary D3 leg of the first Mystery Race left the lead level at 76 points between Her Wet Cat and RobbySimps44. Portugal then gave Red Bull a record 188-point team round, reducing Ferrari's BOTT lead to 171 without taking it away.

Texas changed the architecture and the D1 order together. E2 debuted with quenooo winning from pole, while TheMekanic17 turned a 12-point deficit to piastrigoat into an 11-point lead. Red Bull won three divisions and the round; the season had acquired a fifth table and a fresh argument in its first.

Jeddah and Baku compress the margins

Piastrigoat answered immediately in Jeddah, winning from pole and retaking D1 by seven points. TheIceman729 beat Ussh by 0.275 seconds in E1, a record close finish that survived precisely one round.

Baku cut that record to 0.111 seconds when TheMekanic beat Rochamoya in D1. Piastrigoat still led the standings by five, Ussh's E1 cushion fell to ten and Ferrari raised the team-round record to 207 points.

The second Mystery Race belonged to two different kinds of authority. Her Wet Cat reached a fifth IMS win and moved 61 points clear in D3; VCARB scored 204 points with victories in Monaco D1 and Qatar D2, finishing only three short of Ferrari's new benchmark.

Australia creates the finale pressure

TheIceman won Australia E1 and reduced Ussh's lead to eight points. Piastrigoat finished third in D1 and stretched his advantage to 20, while JPlanteX won E2 to become quenooo's listed 59-point challenger.

Australia also concentrated its spectacle in the recovery columns: RoydeBoy1564 won D2 from 16th, Indraft reached third in D3 from 14th and quenooo finished second in E2 from 12th. Meowsy and JPlante added first IMS victories from pole.

Japan settled the remaining tables. Piastrigoat finished second and ended D1 37 points clear; Ussh won E1 and restored a 16-point margin; Forestal completed a wire-to-finale D2 lead at 70; quenooo retained 58 in E2 despite JPlante winning both closing races.

The final tables reward different seasons

Piastrigoat survived a lead loss and answered it. Forestal turned continuity into the largest final divisional margin. Her Wet Cat recovered from a midseason tie, Ussh defended against a late squeeze and quenooo built a shorter E2 campaign around repeated wins. Five first places, five different shapes.

The constructors' results add the team layer: Ferrari by 31 in D1, VCARB by 136 in D2, Ferrari by 147 in D3, Ferrari by 130 in E1 and McLaren by 32 in E2. No single badge swept the divisions, even as Ferrari dominated the aggregate.

Season 2 leaves a 0.111-second closest finish, a 29.662-second largest margin, a win from 18th and a 207-point team round. More importantly, those records attach to races and rivalries rather than floating as trivia. The season began with champions to defend; it ends with enough evidence for the next preview to be genuinely dangerous.

Season progression

The D1 lead changes hands and returns

TheMekanic takes the lead in Texas

Piastrigoat and TheMekanic17 from Portugal to Japan. Each bar shows the cumulative total after that round.

piastrigoatTheMekanic17
R5
piastrigoat105
TheMekanic1793

piastrigoat+12

R6
piastrigoat113
TheMekanic17124

TheMekanic17+11

R7
piastrigoat144
TheMekanic17137

piastrigoat+7

R8
piastrigoat172
TheMekanic17167

piastrigoat+5

R9
piastrigoat200
TheMekanic17184

piastrigoat+16

R10
piastrigoat221
TheMekanic17201

piastrigoat+20

R11
piastrigoat253
TheMekanic17216

piastrigoat+37

Season progression

Ussh withstands TheIceman's late E1 pressure

Eight points before Japan

Cumulative points from Jeddah to Japan. Each bar shows the cumulative total after that round.

Darth UsshTheIceman729
R7
Darth Ussh176
TheIceman729147

Darth Ussh+29

R8
Darth Ussh198
TheIceman729188

Darth Ussh+10

R9
Darth Ussh222
TheIceman729210

Darth Ussh+12

R10
Darth Ussh248
TheIceman729240

Darth Ussh+8

R11
Darth Ussh283
TheIceman729267

Darth Ussh+16

Season progression

Ferrari leads every BOTT round

Ferrari by 440

The inaugural team championship's final top three. Each bar shows the cumulative total after that round.

FerrariRed BullVCARB
R1
Ferrari142
Red Bull74
VCARB89

Ferrari+68

R2
Ferrari320
Red Bull176
VCARB160

Ferrari+144

R3
Ferrari474
Red Bull262
VCARB260

Ferrari+212

R4
Ferrari583
Red Bull390
VCARB349

Ferrari+193

R5
Ferrari749
Red Bull578
VCARB455

Ferrari+171

R6
Ferrari904
Red Bull742
VCARB570

Ferrari+162

R7
Ferrari1086
Red Bull809
VCARB683

Ferrari+277

R8
Ferrari1293
Red Bull991
VCARB774

Ferrari+302

R9
Ferrari1487
Red Bull1141
VCARB978

Ferrari+346

R10
Ferrari1631
Red Bull1273
VCARB1066

Ferrari+358

R11
Ferrari1801
Red Bull1361
VCARB1223

Ferrari+440

Historical proof · Through S2 R2

Largest winning margins in IMS history

This result: #1

The comparison uses IMS results available at the end of this round. The highlighted row is the result cited by this article.

TopRankEntryEventSupporting detailValue
1#1Her Wet Cat over Duxnuts69This storyS2 R2ImolaFerrari · D329.662s
2#2Darth Ussh over Tedoi6974S2 R2ImolaFerrari · E118.893s
3#3PerfectPaulie88 over jakebandy8S1 R3SingaporeAlpine · D217.953s
4#4jakebandy8 over Wadz51S1 R3ChinaMcLaren · D115.019s
5#5piastrigoat over Wadz51S2 R2ImolaFerrari · D112.868s
Historical proof · Through S2 R8

Closest finishes in IMS history

This result: #1

The comparison uses IMS results available at the end of this round. The highlighted row is the result cited by this article.

TopRankEntryEventSupporting detailValue
1#1TheMekanic17 over RochamoyaThis storyS2 R8BakuRed Bull · D10.111s
2#2TheIceman729 over Darth UsshS2 R7JeddahFerrari · E10.275s
3#3TheMekanic17 over SleekMoverS1 R6Abu DhabiRed Bull · D10.438s
4#4Duxnuts69 over tylerman00S2 R3CanadaWilliams · D30.794s
5#5Thalo4 over King Pigeon5160S2 R1SilverstoneVCARB · D11.161s
Historical proof · Through S2 R8

Highest-scoring team rounds in IMS history

This result: #1

The comparison uses IMS results available at the end of this round. The highlighted row is the result cited by this article.

TopRankEntryEventSupporting detailValue
1#1FerrariThis storyS2 R8Baku2 wins · 4 podiums207 points
2#2Red BullS2 R5Portugal1 wins · 4 podiums188 points
3#3FerrariS2 R7Jeddah2 wins · 5 podiums182 points
4#4FerrariS2 R2Imola3 wins · 4 podiums178 points
5#5FerrariS2 R5Portugal1 wins · 4 podiums166 points
After the round

Championship picture

Drivers
1
piastrigoat
172
2
TheMekanic17
167

5 points between first and second

Drivers
1
piastrigoat
221
2
TheMekanic17
201

20 points between first and second

Across the divisions

The weekend in numbers

D1 · SilverstoneThalo4VCARB · 30 pts
D2 · SilverstoneDarth UsshFerrari · 31 pts
D3 · SilverstoneHer Wet CatFerrari · 32 pts
E1 · SilverstoneTheIceman729Kick Sauber · 31 pts
1
Ferrari2W · 4 podiums
142
2
Kick Sauber1W · 3 podiums
117
3
VCARB1W · 1 podiums
89
Race classification

D1 podium

Full result ↗
PosDriverTeamGridGainPts
1piastrigoatFerrari1031
2RochamoyaMercedes3+124
3Wadz51Ferrari2-120
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