Priaulx Jr joins Tincknell in WEC
The Tincknell/priaulx partnership that took four World Endurance Championship victories across the 2016 and 2017 seasons is being reformed in the series for this season. Only this time, Harry Tincknell will share a car with Seb Priaulx, the son of Andy, his driving partner at the Ganassi Ford squad.
The British pair will contest the full season in a Porsche 911 RSR in the GTE Am class with Dempsey Proton Racing alongside team boss Christian Ried. They have been placed with the German team by their employer, Multimatic Motorsport, with which they both have long relationships.
Tincknell moves into a full-time seat at Proton after making a one-off with the team at Le Mans last August, when he topped the times in the pre-event test day. His relationship with Multimatic stretches through the Ford GT and Mazda RT-24P IMSA Sportscar Championship programmes.
Priaulx Jr has been on the books at Multimatic for the past three seasons. He raced the Canadian operation’s Ford Mustang GT4 machinery in the British GT Championship and then the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge in 2019 and 2020 respectively, and was then placed with the Kelly-moss squad for what turned out to be a successful attack on the Porsche Carrera Cup North America last year.
“I learnt a lot from Andy in WEC and now I’ll be passing some of that knowledge to his son,” said Tincknell, a two-time Le Mans class winner. “Seb did an amazing job in the Porsche Carrera Cup last year, so I have no doubt he’ll be very fast in WEC.”
Priaulx Jr described racing in the WEC as “an incredible opportunity”. “It’s a big step up and I’m excited about what lies ahead of me,” he said. “I’m really pleased to be driving with Harry as he’s like a brother to me: I got to know him when he raced the Ford GT with my dad and we’ve been in the same IMSA paddock for a few years now.”