An incredible season: nothing but great racing
A lot of drivers shone week after week, but it was Sebastian Job who took home the title of 2024 Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup Champion, with 469 points. This is his second Championship, winning the series in 2020. Followed closely behind him was Diogo Pinto (446 points) and Jordan Caruso (332 points), who placed third in the series.
With only 38 points between Pinto and Job going into the final Round. They were racing for it all. Two previous Champions, racing for the series. An unbelievable performance in Round 7 and consistency across the season saw Job dominate, each race, coming back stronger whenever there was a setback. When asked how he felt he said, ‘A massive relief, four years since I won it the first time… A lot of hard work, so I massive relief… It’s nice to see all the hard work paying off again’.
In the All-Stars series we had some of our most entertaining races. This season saw the Porsche 963 be raced with some of our favourite All-Stars battling for valuable points. In almost every race Casey Kirwan had an incredible performance, racing from the back of the pack to the front on multiple occasions, proving he is the true 2024 Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup All-Stars champion back-to-back finishing with 231 points. Pablo López (The Pulpo Lopez ) had an amazing season and finished second (220 points) and Tyson Meier (Quirkitized) finished third (169 points).
It all came down to the final round, so let’s take a look back at the season and see how we got to this climatical end.
A Flying Start to the Season
The first three races where filled with exhilarating racing and split-second finishes. Notably starting at the Daytona International Speedway's Road Course, the first American track to feature as well as a rolling start. Sebastian Job already started to show his mettle winning the Main event, but was narrowly out paced by newcomer Luke McKeown in the Sprint. Job also pulled off a perfect score, 85 points at the Hockenheimring, something that hasn’t been done since 2021 by Joshua Rogers, who also went on the claim the Championship. Diogo Pinto also made great headway earning valuable points alongside McKeown. The last race before the Mid-Season Tournament was at the Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, where Job extended his lead in the Sprint, but couldn’t break through the pack in the Main race, allowing Cooper Webster to win his first career race, followed by Alejandro Sánchez and Chris Lulham.
The first three All-Stars races where in the Porsche 963, starting in Daytona where the now two time All-Stars Champion, Casey Kirwan won the Sprint and had an amazing Main race, coming from the back all the way to the front, but couldn’t get past Emily Jones (Emree) on the last turn and finished second. At the Hockenheimring Kirwan dominated the Sprint with Jones now behind him and Pablo López (The Pulpo Lopez) coming in third but things really switched up in the Main race where Oliver Furnell (Basic Ollie) pulled off an impressive win over Tyson Meier (Quirkitized) and Suellio Almeida. At the Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans the Sprint race was one to remember where Furnell and López battled it out all the way to the final lap, until Furnell committed to a corner with too much speed and took them both out, allowing Mark Noske (Grizzle) and Jones to slip by. In the Main race Meier ended with a comfortable 5 second lead in what was a chaotic race behind him, the fight for second and third was intense but ultimately Furnell and Lopez claimed the other two podium spots.