By alley - Sep 6, 2015, 5:01 AM ET

ELMS: Tincknell gives Jota another pole at Ricard

Harry Tincknell claimed the Jota Sport team's third consecutive pole position of the European Le Mans Series at Paul Ricard.

The Briton topped the times in the Jota Gibson-Nissan 015S LMP2 with a 1m46.917s to end up a tenth and a half clear of Nicolas Minassian in the best of the BR Engineering BRE-Nissan BR01s run under the AF Racing banner.

Tincknell, who has now claimed five ELMS poles with Jota since the start of 2014, said: "I'm happy to be on pole at what is probably the worst track of the season for the Gibson, so it's good to get that extra point."

Minassian's 1m47.065s put him four tenths up on teammate Mikhail Aleshin, who recorded a best time of 1m47.498s. The best qualifying position of the season so far for the BRE coupe follows a switch from Michelin to Dunlop tires ahead of this weekend.

Tristan Gommendy ended up on a 1m47.641s to take fourth place aboard the TDS Racing ORECA-Nissan 05.

The two works Team LNT Ginetta-Nissans headed the LMP3 class, Charlies Robertson's 1m55.431s edging out Michael Simpson best by two tenths.

GTE honors were taken by Alessandro Pier Guidi in the AF Corse-run AT Racing Ferrari 458 Italia after a battle with Andrea Bertolini. His time of 1m55.782s put him half a tenth up on Bertolini's AF Ferrari

Honors in the GTC class for GT3 cars went to the Franck Perera in the TDS BMW Z4.

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap
1	LMP2	S.Dolan, F.Albuquerque, H.Tincknell	JOTA Sport	Gibson/Nissan	1m46.917ss	1m46.917s
2	LMP2	M.Mediani, D.Markozov, N.Minassian	AF Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	1m47.065ss	0.148s
3	LMP2	M.Aleshin, K.Ladygin, V.Shaitar	AF Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	1m47.498ss	0.581s
4	LMP2	P.Thiriet, L.Badey, T.Gommendy	Thiriet by TDS Racing	ORECA/Nissan	1m47.641ss	0.724s
5	LMP2	L.Roussel, D.Cheng	Pegasus Racing	Morgan/Nissan	1m48.074ss	1.157s
6	LMP2	N.Berthon, M.Lyons, M.Patterson	Murphy Prototypes	ORECA/Nissan	1m48.093ss	1.176s
7	LMP2	N.de Bruijn, R.Bradley	Eurasia Motorsport	ORECA/Nissan	1m48.822ss	1.905s
8	LMP2	G.Hirsch, B.Wirdheim, J.Lancaster	Greaves Motorsport	Gibson/Nissan	1m49.101ss	2.184s
9	LMP2	M.Munemann, J.Winslow, A.Roda	Algarve Pro Racing	Ligier/Nissan	1m51.612ss	4.695s
10	LMP2	T.Krohn, N.Jonsson, O.Pla	Krohn Racing	Ligier/Judd	1m52.301ss	5.384s
11	LMP3	C.Hoy, C.Robertson	Team LNT	Ginetta/Nissan	1m55.431ss	-
12	LMP3	M.Simpson, G.Paletou	Team LNT	Ginetta/Nissan	1m55.636ss	-
13	LMGTE	A.Talkanitsa, A.Talkanitsa Jr., A.P.Guidi	AT Racing	Ferrari	1m55.782ss	-
14	LMGTE	P.Mann, A.Bertolini, M.Cressoni	AF Corse	Ferrari	1m55.818ss	-
15	LMGTE	J.Laursen, M.Mac, A.Rizzoli	Formula Racing	Ferrari	1m56.024ss	-
16	LMGTE	M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, P.Keen	Gulf Racing UK	Porsche	1m56.207ss	-
17	LMGTE	R.Smith, R.Butcher, J.Cocker	JMW Motorsport	Ferrari	1m56.225ss	-
18	LMGTE	D.Cameron, M.Griffin, A.Scott	AF Corse	Ferrari	1m56.545ss	-
19	LMP3	K.Calko, M.Van Oostrum, D.Matijosaitis	SVK by Speed Factory	Ginetta/Nissan	1m56.731ss	-
20	LMP3	R.Lacorte, G.Sernagiotto	Cetilar Villorba Corse	Ginetta/Nissan	1m57.058ss	-
21	LMGTE	R.Lietz, M.Mapelli, C.Ried	Proton Competition	Porsche	1m57.238ss	-
22	LMGTE	A.Priaulx, H.Hassid, J.Krohn	BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS	BMW	1m57.401ss	-
23	GTC	F.Perera, D.Lunardi, E.Dermont	TDS Racing	BMW	1m58.396ss	-
24	GTC	T.Flohr, F.Castellacci, S.Hall	AF Corse	Ferrari	1m58.442ss	-
25	GTC	G.Roda, I.Melnikov, M.Cioci	AF Corse	Ferrari	1m58.752ss	-
26	GTC	M.Rasmussen, A.De Leener, F.Guedes	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m04.143ss	-
27	GTC	C.Elgaard, K.Poulsen, S.Moller	Massive Motorsport	Aston Martin	2m06.522ss	-