sirspinsal0t moved from P5 to first in Spa's E2 classification and secured a maiden IMS victory for Ferrari. BBLDRiZZY6523 finished second from pole; Tedoi6974 held third from P3.
The race winner and championship tables split. Tedoi6974 led the drivers on 66 points, while VCARB took the constructors' lead on 106, six ahead of Ferrari.
P5 becomes the useful number
The first win was not a pole conversion. sirspinsal0t gained four places, passed the statistical position of every driver ahead and delivered Ferrari's immediate prize even as the team slipped behind in accumulated points.
BBLDRiZZY6523's second place explains the apparent contradiction. VCARB did not win the race, but its season total was sufficient to move ahead of Ferrari in the constructors' standings.
Three rewards, three owners
sirspinsal0t owned the Spa win, Tedoi6974 owned the drivers' lead and VCARB owned the constructors' lead. The classification distributed the weekend's most important outcomes rather than allowing one result to swallow them all.
Zandvoort-R therefore received an E2 contest with a new winner and no single centre of power. That complexity—not generic talk of momentum—is what made Spa consequential.
