Britain’s Harry Tincknell hopes “local” knowledge will enable him to launch his 2015 European Le Mans Series title assault in style at Silverstone on Saturday (11 Apr). The 23-year-old competes in the 4 Hours of Silverstone for JOTA Sport, sharing the LM P2 class Gibson 015S-Nissan with Simon Dolan (GB) and Filipe Albuquerque (POR) in the opening race of the five-event ELMS campaign.Harry has previously achieved top results at the 18-corner, 3.667-mile Silverstone “Grand Prix” circuit. Furthermore Tincknell, Dolan and Albuquerque dominated last year’s corresponding Silverstone race until Dolan, with just 48mins remaining, was edged off the track by an errant GT car and into instant retirement. Tincknell starts only his second year of sportscar racing having enjoyed a prolific maiden season in the category. An amazing fifth overall in his maiden Le Mans 24 Hours plus personally scoring three pole-positions and three “podiums”, including one win in ELMS, set him apart from the rest and named the ELMS “Rookie of the Year”.These performances ultimately earned Harry a “factory” Nissan LM P1 drive for 2015. He had been due to debut the radical Nissan GT-R LM NISMO in the FIA World Endurance Championship race at Silverstone on Sunday (12 Apr) but Nissan NISMO has delayed the car’s race debut until the Le Mans 24 Hours in June. However Tincknell returned from America yesterday (5 Apr) having completed a successful multi-day test in the GT-R LM NISMO. Two practice sessions for the anticipated 34-car field are staged on Friday at Silverstone with qualifying the following morning. The 4 Hour race is scheduled to start at 2.30pm on Saturday afternoon.