Red Bull Ring ELMS: Harry Tincknell gives Jota Zytek another pole

Tincknell, who set pole for the team at the Silverstone series opener in April, produced three laps good enough to top the timesheets aboard the Jota Zytek-Nissan Z11SN LMP2 during the 20-minute qualifying session ahead of Sunday afternoon's race.

The Briton ended up on a 1m23.078s, which put him nearly half a second ahead of the Race Performance ORECA-Judd/BMW 03 driven by Franck Mailleux.

Tincknell, who shares the Zytek with Filipe Albuquerque and Simon Dolan, said: "We've certainly got the qualifying performance down to a tee and we are very happy to maintain our 100 per cent record for poles."

Mailleux set his time of 1m23.561s after the chequered flag had fallen to knock Tristan Gommendy off the front row in the TDS Racing Ligier-Nissan JSP2 by just half a tenth.

Local driver Christian Klien ended up fourth in the Morand Racing Morgan-Judd/BMW LMP2 a further tenth back.

GTE honours went to the Franco-Russian SMP Racing Ferrari 458 Italia driven by Andrea Bertolini.

The Ferrari factory driver ended up just over two tenths of a second ahead of Richard Lietz, who is making a one-off appearance in the series with the Proton Competition Porsche squad.

Corvette Racing regular Jan Magnussen returned to the ELMS after one race away to set his second pole of the year in the GTC class Ferrari fielded by the Danish Formula Racing team.

Leading qualifiers:

Pos  Cl   Drivers                          Team/Car                     Time
 1.  P2   Dolan/Tincknell/Albuquerque      Jota Zytek-Nissan            1m23.078s
 2.  P2   Frey/Mailleux                    Race Performance ORECA-Judd  1m23.561s
 3.  P2   Thiriet/Badey/Gommendy           TDS Ligier-Nissan            1m23.613s
 4.  P2   Klien/Hirsch/Ragues              Morand Morgan-Judd           1m23.763s
 5.  P2   Chatin/Panciatici/Webb           Signatech Alpine-Nissan      1m23.785s
 6.  P2   Kimber-Smith/McMurray/Patterson  Greaves Zytek-Nissan         1m23.995s
 7.  P2   Bacheta/Schulzhitskiy            Greaves Zytek-Nissan         1m23.997s
 8.  P2   Schell/Leutwiler/Coleman         Pegasus Morgan-Nissan        1m25.449s
 9.  GTE  Bertolini/Shaitar/Zlobin         SMP Ferrari                  1m29.286s
10.  GTE  Felbermayr/Felbermayr/Lietz      Proton Porsche               1m29.499s
Other class polesitters:
21.  GTC  Laursen/Mac/Magnussen            Formula Ferrari              1m30.647s