Job was also on form in the Porsche Esports Carrera Cup GB, at Oulton Park. The Red Bull driver took pole position by just under 0.4 seconds from Jamie Fluke, with Carroll a sliver behind in third. However, contact between the two, in what looked like enormous understeer on cold tyres through Old Hall saw both yield position to Peter Berryman.
As Job disappeared over the horizon, Berryman and Carroll enjoyed a race-long tussle until the closing stages. In what seemed to be a half-hearted move that was never really on, Carroll put his nose up the inside of Berryman into Druids and simply helped him off into the gravel. Despite this, Carroll finished second, over seven seconds behind Job, with Jack Sedgwick in third.
With reverse grid also in operation here, Kevin Ellis Jr. took pole and made a solid start to lead away from Josh Thompson and Isaac Price, but Sedgwick bogged down, allowing Carroll and Job past before the first turn.
Carroll was quickly past Price too, and up onto the front two in short order. A mistake by Price into Lodge saw Job get past too, and join his Red Bull team mate on the hunt for the win, though the lead seven were running almost nose-to-tail.
In the end it was Carroll’s luck that ran out. Thompson made an error through Britten’s which tempted Carroll into the pass, but as the two ran side-by-side through Hislop’s and into Knickerbrook there was the lightest of contacts. It was enough to nudge Carroll onto the grass, dropping him down into seventh.
Job made no such mistake, breezing past Thompson through Cascades, and set off after Ellis who’d managed to build a gap with all this squabbling. It wasn’t quite enough of a gap though as, on the final lap, Job made his move. With an overtake that lasted from Hilltop right to the finish line, the two ran on each other’s door handles, until Job nosed ahead with the inside line on Deer Leap to win by 0.121 second.
With three wins from four races this season, Job takes the championship lead from Ellis too, heading into next week’s races at Donington Park.