Job Returns to Top of Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup Podium at Donington

Red Bull Racing Esports’ Sebastian Job put the disappointment of a difficult round at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya behind him, scoring wins in both the sprint and feature race of Saturday’s Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup event at Donington. Job led all 32 laps of Saturday’s affair, seizing the opportunity from the front row of the sprint race and extending a sizable lead over defending series champion Josh Rogers in the feature.

After posting the seventh-fastest lap in qualifying, Job found himself on the outside of the front row for the sprint race alongside Alejandro Sanchez after the eight-car invert. He never let Sanchez lead a lap, though, seizing the top spot and never yielding the position. Max Benecke would climb from sixth on the grid to third, getting around Ricardo Castro Ledo on Lap 11, while Rogers would complete the top five.

In the feature, Job once again jumped out to the top spot, while Benecke found himself shuffled back to ninth in the first-lap kerfuffle. Rogers had already climbed to a podium spot by the end of the first lap, and got around Sanchez on Lap 8 in hopes of tracking down Job. But as the race wore on, the two drivers kept turning nearly identical laps, rendering the Australian unable to close the gap and leaving him winless still after three races to start his title defense—although he now holds the championship lead once again.

In the Porsche Esports Sprint Challenge super session, featuring the top 30 drivers from the previous week of racing, Cooper Webster led all 13 laps to hold off Thomas Gibson for his first victory of the season, reversing their finishing order from the previous event in Barcelona. Mikkel Gade held off Antti Ahola for the podium, while Simone Maria Marceno, winner of the season opener at Zandvoort, fell out of the top five after a spin and came home 15th.

Results from the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup feature at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Driver

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts.

1122Sebastian Job21211:27.67975
2592Joshua K Rogers21-2.47001:27.67571
3247Alejandro Sánchez21-5.63201:27.66962
4658Tommy Østgaard21-8.66001:27.77554
5433Ricardo Castro Ledo21-8.96201:27.79852
6311Maximilian Benecke21-9.43201:27.65257
7831David Williams21-12.24701:27.91641
89110Christopher Dambietz21-13.70101:27.98338
9107Jeff Giassi21-14.62501:27.90235
10133Sindre Setsaas21-14.75101:27.89230
11125Martin Krönke21-15.23801:27.95229
121116Mack Bakkum21-15.91401:27.94528
131628Alexander Thiebe21-16.90901:27.83621
141898Kevin Ellis Jr21-17.70801:27.99217
15202Jeremy Bouteloup21-18.10901:27.92013
1615211Thibault Cazaubon21-19.07101:28.03016
172621Graham Carroll21-19.73101:27.9609
18736Joshua W Anderson21-20.47901:27.93022
192324Mitchell deJong21-23.59701:28.1017
202218Antoine Higelin21-23.74401:28.1156
213657Dayne Warren21-23.88801:27.82613
221483Bobby Zalenski21-24.49801:28.23511
232843Brian Lockwood21-24.95201:27.8693
2427107Tuomas Tähtelä21-26.56101:28.1412
252927Patrik Holzmann21-27.35701:28.0445
261777Valtteri Alander21-28.67001:28.1794
273014Marc Perez21-29.40201:28.1870
282512Marcus Jensen21-30.72501:28.2430
293549Jamie Fluke21-31.35601:27.9350
303766Greger Huttu21-32.08501:28.1150
311942Matti Kaidesoja21-37.89201:28.4842
322110Jack Sedgwick21-38.69801:28.2650
333423Aleksi Uusi-Jaakkola21-50.59601:27.9980
34334Marin S Colak12-9 L01:28.6180
353290Yohann Harth5-16 L01:28.4020
363171Jonas Wallmeier4-17 L01:31.4130
372429Carl E Jansson2-19 L01:36.2790

 

The Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup season resumes at one of motorsport’s most iconic tracks in just under one month’s time, as Circuit de la Sarthe plays host to the series for the first time on June 20. As always, the action will kick off at 9AM ET on the iRacing eSports Network, with another Porsche Esports Sprint Challenge session serving as a warmup for Round 4 of the 2020 season. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.