Tincknell joins Proton Competition in late Le Mans line-up change

Harry Tincknell will make his eighth start in the 24 Hours of Le Mans as part of a late line-up overhaul for Proton Competition.

The 2020 GTE Pro class winner has been inserted into the line-up for the team’s #99 Porsche 911 RSR-19.

Originally, the German squad had entered Patrick Long, Felipe Fernandez-Laser and Gianluca Giraudi to drive the black-and-orange coloured Porsche, but that line-up has now been changed completely.

Instead, Tincknell will share the car with Florian Latorre and Vuttikhorn Inthraphuvasak. Latorre, active in the Porsche Super Cup France, will make his Le Mans debut while Inthraphuvasak makes his second appearance after his debut last year. That was also in Proton Competition’s #99 Porsche.

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For Tincknell, the deal means he will have race in each of the four current classes featured in the French endurance classic.

In 2014, he won in LMP2 on his debut with JOTA, which was followed by an LMP1 appearance with Nissan in 2015.

Since 2016, the Briton has exclusively raced in GTE Pro. He competed with Ford four times between 2016 and 2019 and took his second class win with Aston Martin in 2020.