Harry Tincknell is currently racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Aston Martin. The Exeter-born driver made his karting debut in 2001, started racing cars in 2008 and rose through the ranks in single seaters before moving to endurance racing in 2014. He won the LMP2 class on his Le Mans 24 Hour race debut that year, driving for Jota Sport alongside fellow British drivers Oliver Turvey and Simon Dolan, and since then he has competed in the European Le Mans series, the FIA World Endurance Championship, the IMSA SportsCar Championship and the Asian Le Mans series. He has also been a test and reserve driver for two Formula E teams, and he has returned to the Le Mans 24 Hours on 12 occasions, winning the GTE Pro class in 2020 alongside Alex Lynn and Belgian Maxime Martin in a works Aston Martin Vantage GTE. He joined the Aston Martin THOR( The Heart of Racing) Team last year to develop and race the Valkyrie hypercar.

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Follow the plan – Le Mans 24-Hours, 2014

My first trip to Le Mans with Jota Sport was one of the crunch moments in my career and the team very much had a plan for the race. The team knew we would be quicker if we used the kerbs, but they told us we had to stay off them and look after the car. All three of us had to commit to that plan, take our egos out of it, not worry about our own personal lap times and focus on being mechanically sympathetic.

In the end, it paid dividends, because we won – and that was partly down to others pushing too hard and breaking down because the cars were more fragile those days. It taught me that sometimes you need to just follow what the team is telling you. You don’ t always know best, and there’ s a lot of intelligent people there that are saying these things for a reason. If you are following a pre-prescribed plan, don’ t deviate from it until told otherwise.

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Revolution- September 2025