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Jazzy wins Spa as champion NesbiLeGrand completes D3 campaign

Pole victory gave Aston Martin the finale, but Nesbi's P5-to-P2 recovery closed a season spent first after every round and produced a 106-point final advantage.

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Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps from trackside
S5 · R11Spa
Champion status

The crown was already won

D3 · WDCNesbiLeGrandSeason 5 champion
Points at seal
251
Nearest rival
160
Margin
+91
Still available
74

Crowned at Qatar, Round 9, with 2 rounds remaining.

Jazzy-draught9 won Spa D3 from pole, while NesbiLeGrand climbed from P5 to second and finished Season 5 first on 289 points. The final gap to zoolander83 was 106.

vHUNT3R finished third from P4 for McLaren. The podium joined a pole conversion, a three-place championship recovery and a one-place move, with the season leader occupying the middle step.

Pole wins, P5 secures the season

Jazzy's result repeated the D3 victory achieved in Qatar, now from pole rather than P2. Nesbi's runner-up score added 23 points to a lead that had already reached 83 after Abu Dhabi.

The scale of the final margin came from accumulation, not one Spa result. Nesbi led on 41 after Bahrain and remained first after every subsequent round, reaching 64, 83, 113, 144 and onward to 289.

First after every snapshot

The full progression line shows the nearest rival falling from nine points behind at the opener to 106 at Spa. The identity of second changed; Nesbi's position did not.

Spa's D3 result therefore had two owners. Jazzy won the race from pole. Nesbi recovered to second and completed a season whose defining feature was not one result but uninterrupted first place.

Season progression

NesbiLeGrand leads after all 11 rounds

Final gap · 106

Leader against second place across Season 5. Each bar shows the cumulative total after that round.

NesbiLeGrandSecond place
R1
NesbiLeGrand41
Second place32

NesbiLeGrand+9

R2
NesbiLeGrand64
Second place32

NesbiLeGrand+32

R3
NesbiLeGrand83
Second place52

NesbiLeGrand+31

R4
NesbiLeGrand113
Second place76

NesbiLeGrand+37

R5
NesbiLeGrand144
Second place95

NesbiLeGrand+49

R6
NesbiLeGrand167
Second place110

NesbiLeGrand+57

R7
NesbiLeGrand199
Second place130

NesbiLeGrand+69

R8
NesbiLeGrand227
Second place145

NesbiLeGrand+82

R9
NesbiLeGrand251
Second place160

NesbiLeGrand+91

R10
NesbiLeGrand266
Second place183

NesbiLeGrand+83

R11
NesbiLeGrand289
Second place183

NesbiLeGrand+106

After the round

Championship picture

Drivers
1
NesbiLeGrand
289
2
zoolander83🇮🇹 🇯🇵
183

106 points between first and second

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