Cloud, Ussh, Kat, Quenooo and Higosh did not win the same kind of championship.
Cloud put D0 under control early enough to finish the job in Japan. Ussh went four races without scoring more than nine points and still made IMS history in Abu Dhabi. Quenooo lost the Monza win and secured the D3 title in the same afternoon. Higosh turned a 52-point deficit into the most complete sequence anywhere on the grid. Kat arrived last, taking a D2 championship that had looked like Webbah's three rounds earlier.
Then there was Williams. The team won three divisional constructors' championships, filled 116 of 118 available starts and beat Ferrari to the BOTT by 475 points. It turned five separate division campaigns into one season-long team rout.
Season 7 at full scale
The complete Season 7 trophy wall
The final tables need no provisional language. Fifty-nine division races were completed; D0 Monza was cancelled and removed from the scoring calendar. Every title below is bound to the final classification.
Every Season 7 championship
Driver titles
Constructor titles
BOTT
Five titles, five different routes
- Points
- 269
- Margin
- +109
- Points
- 195
- Margin
- +54
- Points
- 194
- Margin
- +27
- Points
- 222
- Margin
- +59
- Points
- 275
- Margin
- +66
Cloud made the top division feel inevitable
Cloud's 109-point final advantage is the widest of the five drivers' championships. The more revealing number came three rounds before the end: second in Japan put him 102 clear with only 96 left to score.
That clinching race did not belong to him. vMv Kart lost the lead to a Safety Car disqualification with three laps remaining and Zopz inherited his first IMS win. Cloud simply finished second and took the championship beyond reach. It was an appropriately unsentimental ending to a campaign built on sustained front-running rather than one theatrical coronation.
Five wins and nine podiums from 11 completed D0 races carried Cloud to 269 points. Monza's cancellation did not create his championship; it only removed a race from a lead that had already become overwhelming. Japan made him a back-to-back WDC winner in only his second IMS season.
Ussh won by never leaving the argument
Ussh's D1 season looked different. PolyTromp and HPJones repeatedly showed the pace to beat him. What neither could reproduce was his attendance.
The champion started every round. His closest threats did not. By Abu Dhabi, Ussh had scored exactly nine points at four consecutive events: eighth in Baku, then seventh in Japan, Monza and Abu Dhabi. The last of those results was just enough to put him 48 clear with 32 available.
It made Ussh the first three-time IMS World Drivers' Champion. There was no late streak of victories and no need to pretend seventh place was spectacular. Season 7 rewarded the driver who kept collecting while quicker weekends appeared and disappeared around him.
Cloud clinched with three rounds left and a 102-point live advantage. Ussh needed all 12 starts to outlast rivals who were sometimes faster but less available.
Kat changed the direction of D2 in three races
After Japan, Kat trailed Webbah by 29 points. D2 appeared to belong to the Williams Team Principal, who had already assembled the strongest BOTT campaign IMS had seen and now held the individual lead too.
Monza broke that assumption. Kat won while Webbah's penalties reduced his return to three points, cutting the gap to two. Abu Dhabi changed the leader when Webbah missed the race and Kat won again. Brazil finished the reversal: third place made her champion by 27 over Walter and 35 over Webbah.
Kat is on the right in the image from the finale, three-wide with Martim and Walter on the Reta Oposta. She passed both. Seventh would still have made her champion, but the driver who had erased a 29-point deficit by attacking kept doing it with the title within reach.
Kat’s three-round reversal
- 01After Japan−29Webbah held the D2 lead.
- 02Monza−2Kat won; Webbah scored three.
- 03Abu DhabiLeadA second win changed the championship order.
- 04BrazilChampionP3 completed the turnaround by 27 points.
Quenooo lost the race and found the title at home
Quenooo crossed the line first at Monza. A three-second track-limits penalty gave kelloggsrule his maiden victory and left the Aston Martin second.
It also left Quenooo 69 points clear with only 64 available. He had made his IMS debut at Monza in Season 1, won there in Season 3 and, five seasons after his first championship, secured his second at the same circuit.
Quenooo finished with 222 points and seven podiums. Even losing the Monza win to a penalty could not stop him clinching two rounds early.
The understated line that followed — “did anyone even realise im champ lol” — fitted the afternoon. The classification had changed. The consequence had not.
Higosh turned 52 points down into 66 points clear
JDJT left Austria 52 points ahead of Higosh. Nine races later, Higosh ended Brazil 66 clear. Between Las Vegas and the finale his results formed a sequence that almost looks designed: three wins, three second places, then three more wins.
From 52 behind to 66 clear
- 01After Austria−52JDJT led the D4 championship.
- 02Las Vegas–Brazil9 racesThree wins, three seconds, then three wins.
- 03Final table+66Higosh finished with 275 points.
Abu Dhabi sealed the championship. Higosh took pole, won and moved 33 points ahead with only 32 remaining. He did not immediately understand that the title was his; the arithmetic reached him after the race.
Brazil supplied the emphatic ending: a ninth pole, a sixth victory and 275 points. JD had beaten him on the final lap in Japan and arrived at Monza announcing that the fight was on. Higosh's reply was not a quote. It was three wins from the final three rounds.
Williams won the championship above the championships
Williams' BOTT title was secured in Abu Dhabi D0, but its shape had been visible since Austria. The team left Silverstone one point behind Red Bull. One round later it led by 118. By the end of Brazil, the advantage over Ferrari was 475.
The scale did not come from one division. Williams won D1, D3 and D4 among the constructors; placed a driver second in every division except D0; and turned 116 starts into 22 wins and 46 podium finishes. Webbah's own D2 title challenge collapsed late, yet the team he built never depended on him winning it.
Williams won by filling the whole grid
Only two of 118 Williams seats went unfilled. Previous Williams campaigns had shown speed and still failed to control the BOTT. In Season 7, a bad weekend in one division was repeatedly covered by points from another.
Demaiko and Lorenz Patten sealed the title with a D0 one-three in Abu Dhabi. Higosh and JD had already delivered the largest divisional constructors' margin. HPJones, OnlineGuy, Trident, PolyTromp, Kyotonic and the rotating D0 cast ensured the score never rested on a single pair.
Webbah leaves the Team Principal role with the trophy he spent four Williams seasons trying to win. His successor inherits a champion, but not a self-running one. The system worked because people kept turning up.
Five championships, five methods
Cloud showed what happens when the quickest full-season standard also keeps finishing. Ussh showed that attendance can outlast bursts of superior pace. Kat proved a 29-point deficit can vanish in three rounds. Quenooo made a long career curve close where it began. Higosh turned one of the season's worst positions into its cleanest run home.
Williams' advantage was built differently again: 116 starts, 22 wins and 46 podiums spread across all five divisions. A poor race rarely became a poor weekend.
