Sebastian Job secures 2024 Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup championship at Monza

April 8th, 2024 by

For the second time in series history, Sebastian Job is a Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup champion.

The Oracle Red Bull Sim Racing driver entered the season finale at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza with a decent lead over Team Redline’s Diogo Pinto. Despite Pinto claiming the win in the final race, Job took a pair of seventh place finishes on the day to take the title by 18 points.

Job becomes the second two-time champion in Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup history. His first title came in the 2020 season, in between the pair of championships collected by Joshua Rogers.

FEATURE RACE #1: With a double Feature race format, there were a few more points on the table to be had. Separated by 38 points entering, Job and Pinto both missed out on qualifying points, starting sixth and seventh, respectively. Verstappen.com Racing’s Chris Lulham scored his first TAG Heuer Pole Award, collecting 10 points in the process. Altus Esports’ Jordan Caruso, the outgoing champion, started in third.

Lulham and Caruso managed to get past Williams Esports’ Alessandro Bico in the opening corner, pulling away from the rest of the field. Lulham led the opening two laps, but at the start of the third, Caruso ducked out of line and took it into the first chicane, Lulham opting to concede and work together to keep the advantage. The strategy worked as the two stayed ahead of the field by nearly two seconds until the final lap, when Lulham attempted to get back by.

In just one corner of the contest, the two slowed up enough to bring Stormforce Racing’s Alejandro Sánchez into the picture, but not close enough to attempt a pass for the lead. Lulham gave it one last shot in the final corner, but Caruso held on for his first victory of the season. Back near the invert positions, Job finished in seventh while Pinto finished eighth. That would give Job two more points towards the championship, increasing his lead to 40, but Pinto would have the pole position for the second Feature.

Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup Feature Race #1 – top 10 results from Monza were as follows:

  1. Jordan Caruso
  2. Chris Lulham
  3. Alejandro Sánchez
  4. Dino Lombardi
  5. Yohann Harth
  6. Alessandro Bico
  7. Sebastian Job
  8. Diogo C. Pinto
  9. Cooper Webster
  10. Jakub Maciejewski

FEATURE RACE #2: With a gap of 40 points, Pinto could only take the title by winning or finishing second, while Job would have to finish 17th or worse with a Pinto win. On the start, Bico moved into the runner-up spot, shuffling Job to third. The rest of the competition raced as aggressive as ever, seemingly uncaring that a title would be decided around them.

Bico and Sánchez would scrap for the lead, at times going three-wide with Pinto. Job continued to play defensively, giving up spots to avoid contact or incident points that could result in a penalty. Two cars in his vicinity, Apex Racing Team’s Yohann Harth and Altus Esports’ Dino Lombardi, both served penalties in the second Feature due to incident points.

Up front, Pinto held on, barely holding off Job’s teammate, Cooper Webster, for the victory. Job settled in for another seventh place finish, which was more than enough to claim the championship.

Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup Feature Race #2 results from Monza were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Driver

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts.
1 1 44 Diogo C. Pinto 14 0.000 13 1:48.765 76
2 9 37 Cooper Webster 14 -0.009 0 1:48.158 69
3 7 20 Chris Lulham 14 -0.281 0 1:48.180 95
4 15 12 Gustavo Ariel 14 -1.295 0 1:48.109 49
5 3 77 Alessandro Bico 14 -1.925 0 1:48.407 73
6 6 47 Alejandro Sánchez 14 -2.611 1 1:48.084 70*
7 2 22 Sebastian Job 14 -2.926 0 1:48.221 56
8 12 96 Luke McKeown 14 -3.301 0 1:48.428 44
9 17 43 Josh Thompson 14 -4.161 0 1:48.492 33
10 10 29 Jakub Maciejewski 14 -4.233 0 1:48.411 44
11 14 5 Oskari Rinne 14 -4.418 0 1:48.423 34
12 16 16 Luca Kita 14 -4.519 0 1:48.494 28
13 11 15 Zac Campbell 14 -4.537 0 1:48.398 36
14 13 40 Julien Soenen 14 -4.586 0 1:48.240 30
15 8 1 Jordan Caruso 14 -5.423 0 1:48.101 68
16 23 3 Kevin Nielsen 14 -5.423 0 1:48.864 13
17 27 57 Mathias Stokbæk Jensen 14 -5.850 0 1:48.521 9
18 18 28 Sam Kuitert 14 -6.526 0 1:48.669 16
19 19 95 Parker White 14 -6.969 0 1:48.473 14
20 24 92 Michael Janney 14 -7.104 0 1:48.532 8
21 25 69 Moreno Sirica 14 -12.635 0 1:49.228 6
22 21 27 Simone Maria Marcenò 14 -12.975 0 1:49.374 9
23 5 13 Dino Lombardi 14 -15.667 0 1:48.232 42
24 4 90 Yohann Harth 14 -16.016 0 1:48.676 36
25 26 4 Salva Talens 14 -23.036 0 1:48.251 1
26 22 11 Matti Sipilä 14 -23.488 0 1:48.561 4
27 20 24 Lasse Bak 8 -6L 0 1:48.427 6

* = Points penalty applied post-race

Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup points through Round 7 are as follows:

  1. Sebastian Job, 469
  2. Diogo C. Pinto, 451
  3. Jordan Caruso, 332
  4. Cooper Webster, 331
  5. Alejandro Sánchez, 328
  6. Luke McKeown, 321
  7. Yohann Harth, 306
  8. Alessandro Bico, 297
  9. Chris Lulham, 294
  10. Gustavo Ariel, 287
  11. Zac Campbell, 253
  12. Sam Kuitert, 231
  13. Luca Kita, 129
  14. Kevin Nielsen, 126
  15. Josh Thompson, 108

ALL-STARS: Before the Supercup, the All-Stars of the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup also had a championship to settle. Defending champion Casey Kirwan had the advantage, by 15 points over Pablo “The Pulpo” Lopez. 2022 champion Tyson “Quirkitized’ Meier sat third with an outside shot at it, but after Lopez and Kirwan finished in the top two of the Sprint, he was mathematically out of it.

That opening Sprint race featured wet weather racing for the first time in official iRacing eSports competition. Lopez took the pole with Quirk in second and Kirwan third. After a slowdown for Quirk, Kirwan moved into the second position. The Sprint race saw the track dry through the event, not enough for a pit stop and a set of dry tires to be utilized, but enough that Kirwan started to flip the script on Lopez. Lopez held on for the win, and the points difference was down to eight points entering the Feature finale.

Oliver “Basic Ollie” Furnell started on the pole for the finale and led the entire way while the battle for second was intense. Borja Zazo, Dan Suzuki, Tony Kanaan, and Matt Malone all scrapped for the spot while Kirwan and Lopez worked their way up the grid from the back row. Ollie won, Kirwan finished fourth, and Lopez managed sixth. With the 11-point advantage, Kirwan claimed his second straight championship. The top five finishing All-Stars, including Lopez, Quirk, Daniel Gray, and David “Sampsoid” Sampson, all will receive a TAG Heuer prize.

Porsche TAG Heuer Esports All-Stars Sprint results from Monza were as follows:

  1. The Pulpo Lopez
  2. Casey Kirwan
  3. Emree
  4. Quirkitized
  5. LoveFortySix

Porsche TAG Heuer Esports All-Stars Feature results from Monza were as follows:

  1. Basic Ollie
  2. Dan Suzuki
  3. Matt Malone
  4. Casey Kirwan
  5. Tony Kanaan

Porsche TAG Heuer Esports All-Stars points through Round 7 are as follows:

  1. Casey Kirwan, 231
  2. The Pulpo Lopez, 220
  3. Quirkitized, 169
  4. Daniel Gray, 137
  5. Sampsoid, 130

 

For more information on the 2024 Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup season, visit www.iracing.com/pesc. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.

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