Harry Tincknell is enjoying being an 'underdog' on Proton Porsche's Hypercar debut, and believes finishing would be an 'unbelievable result' at Monza Full WEC story ⬇️
, 1.3s down on polesitter Kamui Kobayashi's Toyota, after a set-up choice"didn’t really work" and meant he"lost a bit of balance"."Actually you’re the ones who have to grind, working twice as hard because we’ve got so much catching up to do.
The two-time Le Mans 24 Hours class-winner, who is contracted to Porsche's technical partner Multimatic, explained that Proton is running"a very skeleton crew" for its maiden prototype outing with"probably two or three staff less than what we will be" and also currently lacks certain parts.Photo by: Eric Le Galliot
As such, Tincknell believes"the job the team has done shouldn’t be underestimated" to be within seven tenths of the best works-entered 963 that qualified eighth. Tincknell added that a race finish is the key priority for the programme as it seeks to log miles with the car and will as such adopt a no-risk approach in the six hours.
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