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Silverstone ELMS: Harry Tincknell claims pole for season-opener

Sportscar newcomer Harry Tincknell claimed pole position for the opening round of the European Le Mans Series at Silverstone on his prototype debut

The Briton took the pole with a lap of 1m47.702s aboard the Jota Sport Zytek-Nissan Z11SN.

That compared with second-placed Franck Mailleux's best of 1m48.854s in the Race Performance team's ORECA-Judd/BMW 03.

Third place went to Karun Chandhok with a time a time less than a tenth behind.

Ferrari factory driver Andrea Bertolini ended up fastest in GTE aboard his SMP Racing-run 458 Italia with a 1m52.970s.

Second place was taken by Daniel Zampieri in the British JMW Ferrari on a time six tenths behind.

Team Ukraine squad took qualifying honours in the GTC class for GT3 machinery with Alessandro Pierguidi at the wheel of its Ferrari 458 Italia.

Leading times:

Pos Cl Drivers                      Team/Car                       Time      Gap    
 1. P2 Dolan/Tincknell/Albuquerque  Jota Zytek-Nissan              1m47.702s        
 2. P2 Frey/Mailleux                Race Performance ORECA-Nissan  1m48.854s +1.152s
 3. P2 Gonzalez/Kapadia/Chandhok    Murphy ORECA-Nissan            1m48.912s +1.210s
 4. P2 Kimber-Smith/Dyson/McMurry   Greaves Zytek-Nissan           1m48.950s +1.248s
 5. P2 Thiriet/Badey/Gommendy       Thiriet ORECA-Nissan           1m49.057s +1.355s
 6. P2 Klien/Hirsch/Brandela        Newblood Morgan-Judd           1m49.715s +2.013s
 7. P2 Chatin/Panciatici/Webb       Signatech Alpine-Nissan        1m49.762s +2.060s
 8. P2 Littlejohn/Wells/Walker      Greaves Zytek-Nissan           1m50.236s +2.534s
 9. P2 Nicolet/Ihara/Yacaman        Larbre Morgan-Judd             1m50.984s +3.282s
10. P2 Capillaire/Charouz           Loeb ORECA-Nissan              1m51.822s +4.120s
                                                                                    

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