Babba won China D3 from P19, gaining 18 places and claiming a first IMS victory for Mercedes. Soup9567 finished second from P6 and Arsenalboyz101 third from P7.
All three podium finishers began outside the top five, but Babba's recovery exceeded the others by a wide margin. Soup gained four positions and Arsenalboyz four; the winner gained 18.
The last row reaches first
Babba started 13 places behind Soup and 12 behind Arsenalboyz, then finished ahead of both. The grid comparison shows the scale without reconstructing the unseen sequence of passes and retirements.
The first-win claim gives the movement a second endpoint. China was not merely an 18-place recovery into points or onto the podium; it completed the full distance from P19 to the IMS top step.
A breakthrough inside a distant title chase
Jak75421 remained first in D3 on 173 points, 50 ahead of Soup9567. Babba's race belonged to the event rather than the title lead, a standalone breakthrough within a championship still controlled elsewhere.
China's D3 story begins and ends with the auditable transformation: Babba P19, Babba P1, and a first IMS victory at the end of an 18-place climb.
