iRacing Porsche Supercup: Sebastian does the Job at Silverstone

Sebastian Job’s iRacing quest to score his second consecutive Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup title is back on track after Saturday.

Job became the first repeat Porsche winner of both the 2021 season, and in the iRacing series’ history at Silverstone Circuit, when he took the checkered flag in the feature race in spite of an early-race incident with Tommy Ostgaard.

Entering the weekend nearly 90 points behind points leader and 2019 series champion Joshua Rogers thanks to a 24^th place result last weekend at Imola, Job looked to replicate his podium finishes at the famed British circuit in each of the past two years. He qualified third and finished fourth in the sprint race, before quickly working his way up to second behind Ostgaard after the eight-car invert at the front of the final grid.

The duo would make contact, allowing Rogers to take the lead and Mack Bakkum to slot into second as Job fell to third and Ostgaard would fall to the fringe of the top 10. Job would track down Bakkum and make the pass for second again on Lap 7, and a lap later, would find his way ahead of Rogers for good. The Australian would put on a spirited challenge, but would eventually fall just .290 seconds short in the closest finish yet in 2021.

The podium would hold in place for the rest of the race, with Graham Carroll and rookie Charlie Collins settling into the top five at roughly the same time and sprint race winner Mitchell deJong holding onto sixth at the end of the lead pack, which was separated by just over a second. Subsequent trouble for Ostgaard would drop him to a disappointing 26^th at race’s end.

Prior to the main show, the Porsche All-Star Race shifted to the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport for the first time on Saturday. In a high-attrition pair of events, P.O. “Depielo” Valette took the sprint race victory, but it was Emily “Emree” Jones who tracked down Jaroslav Honzik in the second half of the feature to earn that victory.

Full results from the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup feature at Silverstone Circuit were as follows:

Fin.	St.	No.	Driver	Laps	Interval	Led	Best	Pts.
1	5	1	Sebastian Job	14		7	2:04.169	74
2	7	92	Joshua K Rogers	14	-0.290	4	2:04.511	67
3	2	16	Mack Bakkum	14	-0.627	0	2:04.436	54
4	3	8	Graham Carroll	14	-0.780	0	2:04.509	52
5	4	93	Charlie Collins	14	-0.854	0	2:04.377	52
6	8	24	Mitchell deJong	14	-1.014	0	2:04.487	66
7	10	30	Kevin Ellis Jr	14	-5.103	0	2:04.427	39
8	14	107	Tuomas Tähtelä	14	-5.199	0	2:04.290	33
9	12	77	Jeremy Bouteloup	14	-5.352	0	2:04.513	33
10	13	27	Patrik Holzmann	14	-10.429	0	2:04.367	30
11	27	51	Josh Thompson	14	-10.738	0	2:04.458	20
12	20	121	Diogo C. Pinto	14	-11.283	0	2:04.651	19
13	17	13	Alexander Wolters	14	-12.317	0	2:04.561	20
14	22	99	Mikkel Gade	14	-15.040	0	2:04.753	14
15	35	49	Jamie Fluke	14	-16.405	0	2:04.704	12
16	16	33	Ricardo Castro Ledo	14	-16.520	0	2:04.287	15
17	18	69	Moreno Sirica	14	-17.533	0	2:04.376	12
18	40	50	Ricardo  Rico	14	-22.453	0	2:04.993	8
19	29	110	Christopher Dambietz	14	-22.752	0	2:04.433	7
20	30	5	Martin Krönke	14	-22.850	0	2:04.483	6
21	36	729	Maxim Ramsteijn	14	-22.956	0	2:04.684	5
22	34	43	Brian Lockwood	14	-25.692	0	2:05.064	4
23	39	211	Thibault Cazaubon	14	-25.946	0	2:04.101	3
24	28	119	Pekka Tuomainen	14	-26.080	0	2:05.152	2
25	23	312	Daniel Lafuente	14	-26.506	0	2:05.028	1
26	1	58	Tommy Østgaard	14	-28.333	3	2:05.132	17
27	24	04	Salva Talens	14	-33.922	0	2:04.484	0
28	6	57	Dayne Warren	14	-40.571	0	2:04.451	28
29	11	911	Ayhancan Guven	14	-52.150	0	2:04.423	10
30	38	28	Carlos  Fenollosa	14	-1:12.702	0	2:05.090	0
31	37	31	David Williams	13	-1 L	0	2:05.413	0
32	9	11	Maximilian Benecke	12	-2 L	0	2:04.954	12
33	26	90	Yohann Harth	10	-4 L	0	2:04.327	0
34	31	47	Alejandro Sánchez	9	-5 L	0	2:04.720	0
35	15	18	Sindre Setsaas	9	-5 L	0	2:04.479	6
36	19	42	Matti Kaidesoja	6	-8 L	0	2:05.526	2
37	32	15	Zac Campbell	3	-11 L	0	2:07.323	0
38	33	12	Alexander Thiebe	3	-11 L	0	2:05.865	0
39	21	10	Jack Sedgwick	3	-11 L	0	2:07.344	0
40	25	7	Jeff Giassi	1	-13 L	0		0

 

Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup points through four rounds are as follows:

1. Joshua Rogers, 265
2. Mitchell deJong, 227
3. Sebastian Job, 183
4. Dayne Warren, 173
5. Kevin Ellis Jr., 166
6. Charlie Collins, 158
7. Maximilian Benecke, 151
8. Mack Bakkum, 135
9. Graham Carroll/Alejandro Sanchez (tie), 126

The Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup is off next week before returning to action on February 20 at Road Atlanta, as points leader Rogers looks to replicate last year’s victory in the series’ lone American round.

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