VCARB won the Las Vegas BOTT round with 183 points, nine more than Ferrari. Ferrari nevertheless finished Season 3 first on 1,512, 80 clear of VCARB on 1,432.
The finale narrowed the gap from 89 to 80 without changing the order. That was an appropriately untidy ending to a contest in which the lead had already changed hands four times across the opening six rounds.
Four VCARB podiums beat three Ferrari podiums
QwAsey reet's D2 victory headed VCARB's 183-point return. The team placed four cars on podiums and five in the top five from ten starts; Ferrari countered with Darth Ussh's E1 win, three podiums and five top-five finishes from the same number of starts.
That one-podium difference helped VCARB win the round but could recover only nine points. Ferrari arrived with the 89-point advantage created after scoring 266 at the Mystery Race and 211 at Monza.
The line changes sides, then stays red
VCARB led after Singapore, Ferrari after Qatar, VCARB again from Bahrain through Mexico, and Ferrari from Miami onward. The margins after those final four rounds were 18, 71, 89 and 80 points.
Las Vegas belongs to VCARB in the round table and to Ferrari in the season table. Keeping those outcomes separate reveals the actual arc: a challenger that won the final exchange, and a leader whose decisive work had been done before the finale began.
