Fuji WEC: Kazuki Nakajima gives Toyota home pole

The Japanese driver, who shares the solo Toyota TS030 Hybrid with Alex Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre, set a best time of 1m27.499s to take pole on his return to the WEC after two races away.

His lap eclipsed that of Benoit Treluyer in the best of the Audi R18 e-tron quattros by just 0.140 seconds.

"It means a lot for me, the team and Toyota," said Nakajima. "Now I feel quite relieved. There wasn't big pressure before, but after I got out of the car, there was a big reaction from the team, so I realised that it was quite important."

The second Audi R18 will line up on the second row of the grid after Tom Kristensen ended up third fastest on 1m28.370s.

Neel Jani claimed LMP1 privateer honours after pulling out a lap in the Rebellion Racing Lola-Toyota B12/60 good enough to eclipse Danny Watts' best in the Strakka HPD ARX-03a by just under two tenths.

LMP2 pole again went to Stephane Sarrazin in the Starworks HPD ARX-03b. The Frenchman ended up two tenths up on John Martin in the ADR-Delta ORECA-Nissan 03.

Marc Lieb took GTE Am pole in his Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 911 GT3-RSR.

Pos  Cl     Drivers                         Team/Car                Time
 1.  P1     Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima          Toyota                  1m27.499s
 2.  P1     Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer       Audi                    1m27.639s
 3.  P1     Kristensen/McNish               Audi                    1m28.370s
 4.  P1     Prost/Jani                      Rebellion Lola-Toyota   1m29.871s
 5.  P1     Leventis/Watts/Kane             Strakka HPD             1m30.051s
 6.  P1     Brabham/Chandhok/Dumbreck       JRM HPD                 1m30.410s
 7.  P1     Belicchi/Primat                 Rebellion Lola-Toyota   1m30.682s
 8.  P1     Baguette/Kraihamer/Sato         OAK Pescarolo-Honda     1m30.912s
 9.  P2     Potolicchio/Dalziel/Sarrazin    Starworks HPD           1m32.367s
10.  P2     Martin/Graves/Nakano            ADR-Delta ORECA-Nissan  1m32.548s
11.  P2     Liuzzi/Rossiter/Weeda           Lotus Lola-Lotus        1m32.738s
12.  P2     Panciatici/Ragues/Rusinov       Signatech ORECA-Nissan  1m32.960s
13.  P2     Perez Companc/Minassian/Kaffer  Pecom ORECA-Nissan      1m33.114s
14.  P2     Nicolet/Lahaye/Pla              OAK Morgan-Nissan       1m33.165s
15.  P2     Mailleux/Lombard/Tresson        Signatech ORECA-Nissan  1m34.294s
16.  P2     Holzer/Schultis                 Lotus Lola-Lotus        1m35.036s
17.  P2     Giroix/Ihara/Deletraz           Gulf Lola-Nissan        1m35.234s
18.  P2     Zugel/Gonzalez/Julian           Greaves-Nissan          1m35.601s
19.  GTE P  Lieb/Lietz                      Felbermayr Porsche      1m40.289s
20.  GTE P  Fisichella/Bruni                AF Ferrari              1m40.598s
21.  GTE P  Mucke/Turner                    Aston Martin            1m40.798s
22.  GTE P  Bertolini/Beretta               AF Ferrari              1m41.202s
23.  GTE A  Belloc/Bourret/Gibon            Larbre Corvette         1m41.386s
24.  GTE A  Krohn/Jonsson/Rugolo            Krohn Ferrari           1m41.701s
25.  GTE A  Ried/Roda/Ruberti               Felbermayr Porsche      1m41.711s
26.  GTE A  Bornhauser/Canal/Lamy           Larbre Corvette         1m41.945s
27.  GTE A  Camathias/Kobayashi/Daniels     JWA Porsche             1m42.910s