Evidence-led analysis of IMS title fights, standings shifts and championship-defining performances.
The headline promotion sends D4's champion straight to L1, but this board is not a league table: old results lose value when the opposition changes. We pick the drivers best placed for their new company, explain why E3 is the best fix and build what we think is going to be the team of the season.
Four seasons after taking over at Williams, Webbah is one Saturday away from the title that escaped him at McLaren. The predictor has the coronation falling in D0; the season behind it already ranks among the finest team campaigns IMS has seen.
Williams can clinch the team championship by outscoring Red Bull by 41 points in Japan—but its leading drivers are separated by only five points in their own title fight.
The Williams Team Principal has built championship-winning teams and now holds a commanding BOTT lead—but the biggest prize missing from his own driver record remains under threat from Walter9500.
The championship leader sits second on the IMS all-time wins list, while piastrigoat arrives after ending a victory drought that stretched back to Season 4.
