Meowsy won the Las Vegas D1 race from P17, gaining 16 positions in the second-biggest charge through the field IMS had recorded. BULLDOGGER47 finished second from P6 and Rochamoya third from P7.
TheMekanic17 added 17 points elsewhere in the classification and finished Season 3 first in D1 on 219, 70 ahead of LKR Gerardo6. Las Vegas therefore produced separate owners for the race and the season.
One place short of the recovery record
Only Duxnuts69's P18-to-P1 Canada victory had gained more positions. Meowsy's 16 matched Darth Ussh's P18-to-P2 recovery at Jeddah, while BULLDOGGER47 and Rochamoya each gained four places on the Vegas podium.
The classification does not reconstruct the passes behind that movement, and its recorded elapsed times include the effects that produced the official order. The auditable achievement is the full grid-to-finish transformation: P17 became P1.
Seven rounds on top end at seventy
TheMekanic17 took the D1 lead after Bahrain and retained it through every remaining round. The margin to second moved 15, 28, 23, 43, 49, 62 and finally 70 points as the identity of the nearest challenger changed.
That is why the finale needs both views. Meowsy supplied the weekend's extraordinary movement through the field. TheMekanic17 supplied the season's opposite quality: a lead held continuously from Round 3 until the totals stopped.
