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Saturday’s Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup season finale at Autodromo Nazionale Monza was, when all was said and done, almost a perfect reflection of the 2021 season as a whole. Joshua Rogers’ dominance of the third year of the collaborative World Championship between iRacing and Porsche culminated in his fifth main event victory in 10 rounds, putting an exclamation point on a championship campaign that had already been mathematically confirmed going into the race. The title is Rogers’ second in the series, making him the first driver to accomplish the feat.

“I’m incredibly relieved that I can now officially call myself champion again,” Rogers said after the event. “The season was exhausting, exciting and a real rollercoaster ride. At the first events, my qualifying results weren’t exactly what I’d expected. We worked on this as a team and made huge progress. The better grid positions then helped me to achieve the many successes over the rest of the year. It was great fun, especially after experiencing a really bad season in 2020. I think Mitchell (deJong) and I put on another great show for the fans at the final race.”

Mitchell deJong was second in both the feature race and the championship, leading six of the 14 laps in the main event at Monza while trading the point repeatedly with Rogers up until the final stages. Yohann Harth, fresh off a win in Tuesday’s iRacing Rallycross All-Star Invitational, completed the podium, using that and an eighth place finish in the sprint race to punch his way into the top 20 cutoff to retain his series license for 2022.

Defending series champion Sebastian Job’s rollercoaster 2021 campaign ended on an unfortunate low, with results of 29th in the sprint race and a DNF in the feature that included multiple incidents and at one point a rollover. Job walking out of the finale without any points enabled Charlie Collins, the top qualifier on the day, to steal third in the final standings thanks to top five finishes in both races. Dayne Warren would round out the top five behind Job thanks in part to a sprint race victory earlier in the day.

In the All-Star race that took place before the Supercup finale, Borja Zazo and Emily “Emree” Jones split the sprint and feature victories, while Matt Malone scored runner-up results in both races. Jones took the championship among all drivers in the 10-race campaign for popular iRacing streamers and real-world guest drivers.

Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup feature results from Autodromo Nazionale Monza were as follows:

Fin.	St.	No.	Driver	Laps	Interval	Led	Best	Pts.
1	5	92	Joshua K Rogers	14		4	1:50.762	70
2	6	24	Mitchell deJong	14	-0.176	6	1:51.187	71
3	1	90	Yohann Harth	14	-0.870	3	1:50.580	53
4	12	4	Salva Talens	14	-2.862	0	1:50.424	46
5	7	93	Charlie Collins	14	-2.943	0	1:50.482	66
6	9	49	Jamie Fluke	14	-3.175	0	1:50.420	43
7	19	7	Jeff Giassi	14	-7.563	0	1:50.941	30
8	16	312	Daniel Lafuente	14	-7.734	0	1:50.943	31
9	11	77	Jeremy Bouteloup	14	-8.683	0	1:50.600	34
10	18	8	Graham Carroll	14	-8.726	0	1:50.914	25
11	23	43	Brian Lockwood	14	-8.969	0	1:50.983	20
12	31	15	Zac Campbell	14	-9.094	0	1:50.714	18
13	15	58	Tommy Østgaard	14	-9.396	0	1:51.037	22
14	22	11	Maximilian Benecke	14	-10.953	0	1:51.032	14
15	17	5	Martin Krönke	14	-11.735	0	1:50.791	16
16	24	10	Jack Sedgwick	14	-11.750	0	1:50.945	10
17	3	30	Kevin Ellis Jr	14	-17.411	0	1:51.356	24
18	28	121	Diogo C. Pinto	14	-22.301	0	1:51.282	8
19	30	119	Pekka Tuomainen	14	-24.381	0	1:50.925	7
20	26	729	Maxim Ramsteijn	14	-24.970	0	1:51.841	6
21	14	31	David Williams	14	-31.319	0	1:51.097	12
22	13	69	Moreno Sirica	14	-31.912	0	1:50.950	12
23	4	16	Mack Bakkum	14	-38.462	1	1:50.667	23
24	21	18	Sindre Setsaas	14	-45.073	0	1:51.915	2
25	8	57	Dayne Warren	14	-45.273	0	1:50.767	34
26	10	47	Alejandro Sánchez	11	-3 L	0	1:50.320	11
27	27	33	Ricardo Castro Ledo	2	-12 L	0		0
28	29	1	Sebastian Job	2	-12 L	0		0
29	25	99	Mikkel Gade	1	-13 L	0		0
30	20	911	Ayhancan Guven	1	-13 L	0		1
31	2	107	Tuomas Tähtelä	0	-14 L	0		14

 

Final 2021 Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup points were as follows. The top 20 drivers in the standings will earn automatic qualifying berths for the 2022 series season:

1. Joshua Rogers, 670
2. Mitchell deJong, 478
3. Charlie Collins, 408
4. Sebastian Job, 395
5. Dayne Warren, 380
6. Kevin Ellis Jr., 373
7. Tommy Ostgaard, 335
8. Zac Campbell, 329
9. Maximilian Benecke, 285
10. Jeremy Bouteloup, 283
11. Graham Carroll, 282
12. Alejandro Sanchez, 265
13. Jamie Fluke, 237
14. Tuomas Tahtela, 226
15. Mack Bakkum, 215
16. Jeff Giassi, 199
17. Diogo Pinto, 193
18. Martin Kronke, 188
19. Yohann Harth, 159
20. Salva Talens, 155
21. Sindre Setsaas, 150
22. Moreno Sirica, 143
23. Daniel Lafuente, 140
24. David Williams, 135
25. Mikkel Gade, 97
26. Patrik Holzmann, 84
27. Maxim Ramsteijn, 82
28. Brian Lockwood, 72
29. Ayhancan Guven, 54
30. Josh Thompson, 47
31. Ricardo Castro Ledo, 35
32. Jack Sedgwick, 28
33. Alexander Wolters, 27
34. Pekka Tuomainen, 25
35. Christopher Dambietz, 18
36. Thibault Cazaubon, 17
37. Ricardo Rico, 8
38. Matti Kaidesoja, 8
39. Alexander Thiebe, 3
40. Carlos Fenollosa, 2

The Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup Qualifying Series for the 2022 season will take place later this summer. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iRacing.com.

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