XAQxFr took the D2 championship lead in Miami despite finishing outside the podium positions. A 14-point round lifted the Red Bull driver from third to first on 107 points.
PerfectPaulie88 scored 12 and remained second on 106, leaving one point between them. Quenooo29, CapnBlkbrn81 and HPJones filled the Miami podium.
The championship headline sits below the podium
The round winner scored 31 and two first-time or returning podium finishers took 24 and 20, yet the narrowest contest in D2 was decided farther down the order: 14 points against 12 for the leading pair.
Red Bull retained the constructors’ lead on 210 points, 26 ahead of VCARB. The team order held steady even as its driver moved to the head of a much tighter individual table.
One point between drivers, 26 between teams
Those gaps give Miami two scales. The constructors’ contest still offered Red Bull room; the drivers’ contest offered xAQ virtually none. PerfectPaulie was one point away after six rounds.
Not every lead change needs a victory photograph. Miami’s D2 table changed because xAQ scored two more points than PerfectPaulie on a day when neither stood on the podium.
