Le Mans 24 Hours test day: Porsche's Jani leads wet first session

Neel Jani topped the times in the #18 Porsche 919 Hybrid with a 3m21.946s before the rain came approximately one hour and 45 minutes into the session.

That put him three tenths up on Marco Bonanomi in the best of the three Audi R18 e-tron quattros on a 3m22.307s.

Andre Lotterer ended up a further six tenths behind in the next best Audi.

Stephane Sarrazin set the best Toyota time, recording a 3m26.929s in the #2 TS040 HTBRID to end up seventh in the times.

Kazuki Nakajima, who was on Saturday signed off from injuries sustained in the Spa World Endurance Championship round earlier this month, made his comeback in the #1 Toyota.

He then handed over the car to Toyota test and reserve driver Kamui Kobayashi, who undertook his first laps of the Circuit de la Sarthe in an LMP1 prototype.

The best time set by one of the new Nissan GT-R LM NISMOs was a 3m43.383s with Olivier Pla at the wheel.

Jani's time was only two tenths slower than last year's pole mark set by set by Nakajima and a similar margin quicker than Porsche's qualifying best last year.

Le Mans rookie Laurens Vanthoor was quickest in LMP2 aboard OAK Racing's Honda-engined Ligier JSP2.

The Audi factory GT driver, who took part in the test day last year, ended up on a 3m41.919s and three tenths up on Paul-Loup Chatin in the Signatech Alpine ORECA 03b.

Oliver Gavin was fastest in GTE Pro for the Corvette Racing squad.

The Briton's time aboard the #64 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R was half a second quicker than second-place Gianmaria Bruni in the best of the factory AF Corse Ferrari 458s.

GTE Am was headed by Raffaele Giammaria in the #61 AF Ferrari.

MORNING TIMES:

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap
1	LMP1-H	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb, F.Makowiecki	Porsche Team	Porsche	3m21.945s	-
2	LMP1-H	F.Albuquerque, M.Bonanomi, R.Rast	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	3m22.307s	0.362s
3	LMP1-H	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	3m22.930s	0.985s
4	LMP1-H	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley, F.Makowiecki	Porsche Team	Porsche	3m23.945s	2.000s
5	LMP1-H	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	3m24.111s	2.166s
6	LMP1-H	N.Hulkenberg, E.Bamber, N.Tandy, F.Makowiecki	Porsche Team	Porsche	3m24.147s	2.202s
7	LMP1-H	A.Wurz, S.Sarrazin, M.Conway	Toyota Racing	Toyota	3m26.929s	4.984s
8	LMP1-H	A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima, K.Kobayashi	Toyota Racing	Toyota	3m27.017s	5.072s
9	LMP1	N.Prost, M.Beche, N.Heidfeld	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	3m30.508s	8.563s
10	LMP1	S.Trummer, P.Kaffer, T.Monteiro	Team ByKolles	CLM/AER	3m38.904s	16.959s
11	LMP2	C.Cumming, L.Vanthoor	Oak Racing	Ligier/HPD	3m41.919s	19.974s
12	LMP2	N.Panciatici, P-L.Chatin, V.Capillaire	Signatech Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	3m42.273s	20.328s
13	LMP2	M.Howson, R.Bradley, N.Lapierre	KCMG	ORECA/Nissan	3m42.453s	20.508s
14	LMP2	S.Dolan, M.Evans, O.Turvey	JOTA	Gibson/Nissan	3m42.547s	20.602s
15	LMP1	A.Imperatori, D.Kraihamer, D.Abt	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	3m42.754s	20.809s
16	LMP1-H	O.Pla, J.Mardenborough, M.Chilton	Nissan Motorsports	Nissan	3m43.383s	21.438s
17	LMP2	N.Leventis, D.Watts, J.Kane	Strakka Racing	Dome/Nissan	3m43.833s	21.888s
18	LMP2	G.Hirsch, B.Wirdheim, J.Lancaster, G.Paletou	Greaves Motorsport	Gibson/Nissan	3m44.380s	22.435s
19	LMP2	R.Rusinov, J.Canal, S.Bird	G-Drive Racing	Ligier/Nissan	3m45.701s	23.756s
20	LMP2	K.Chandhok, M.Patterson, N.Berthon	Murphy Prototypes	ORECA/Nissan	3m46.611s	24.666s
21	LMP2	G.Yacaman, P.Derani, R.Gonzalez	G-Drive Racing	Ligier/Nissan	3m47.975s	26.030s
22	LMP2	S.Sharp, R.Dalziel, D.H.Hansson	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/HPD	3m47.981s	26.036s
23	LMP1-H	H.Tincknell, M.Krumm, A.Buncombe	Nissan Motorsports	Nissan	3m48.835s	26.890s
24	LMP2	P.Thiriet, T.Gommendy, L.Badey	Thiriet by TDS Racing	ORECA/Nissan	3m48.863s	26.918s
25	LMP2	M.Mediani, D.Markozov, N.Minassian	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	3m48.960s	27.015s
26	LMP2	P.Ragues, O.Webb, Z.Amberg	Team SARD Morand	Morgan/SARD	3m49.312s	27.367s
27	LMP2	L.Roussel, D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung	Pegasus Racing	Morgan/Nissan	3m49.461s	27.516s
28	LMP2	E.Brown, J.van Overbeek, J.Fogarty	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/HPD	3m49.697s	27.752s
29	LMP2	J.Nicolet, J-M.Merlin, E.Maris	Oak Racing	Ligier/HPD	3m51.233s	29.288s
30	LMP2	T.Krohn, N.Jonsson	Krohn Racing	Ligier/Judd	3m51.257s	29.312s
31	LMP1-H	T.Matsuda, M.Shulzhitskiy, L.Ordonez	Nissan Motorsports	Nissan	3m51.334s	29.389s
32	LMP2	P.Perret, I.Bellarosa, J.Ibanez	Ibanez Racing	ORECA/Nissan	3m52.298s	30.353s
33	LMP2	M.Aleshin, K.Ladygin, A.Ladygin	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	3m52.613s	30.668s
34	LMP2	T.Fujii, S.Hoshino, C.Klien	KCMG	ORECA/Judd	3m53.433s	31.488s
35	GTE Pro	O.Gavin, T.Milner, J.Taylor	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet	3m58.162s	36.217s
36	GTE Pro	G.Bruni, T.Vilander, G.Fisichella	AF Corse	Ferrari	3m58.616s	36.671s
37	GTE Pro	P.Pilet, F.Makowiecki, W.Henzler, S.Muller	Porsche Team Manthey	Porsche	3m59.043s	37.098s
38	GTE Pro	J.Magnussen, A.Garcia, R.Briscoe	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet	4m00.549s	38.604s
39	GTE Am	P.Mann, R.Giammaria, M.Cressoni	AF Corse	Ferrari	4m00.677s	38.732s
40	GTE Pro	R.Lietz, M.Christensen, J.Bergmeister, S.Muller	Porsche Team Manthey	Porsche	4m00.930s	38.985s
41	GTE Am	V.Shaytar, A.Bertolini, A.Basov	SMP Racing	Ferrari	4m01.303s	39.358s
42	GTE Pro	D.Rigon, J.Calado, O.Beretta	AF Corse	Ferrari	4m01.641s	39.696s
43	GTE Am	F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas	AF Corse	Ferrari	4m02.401s	40.456s
44	GTE Pro	D.Turner, S.Mucke, R.Bell	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	4m02.707s	40.762s
45	LMP3	M.Chilton, T.Matsuda, A.Buncombe	Team LNT	Ginetta/Nissan	4m02.712s	40.767s
46	GTE Am	B.Sweedler, T.Bell, J.Segal	Scuderia Corsa	Ferrari	4m02.887s	40.942s
47	GTE Am	G.Roda, P.Ruberti, K.Poulsen	Larbre Competition	Chevrolet	4m03.116s	41.171s
48	GTE Pro	F.Rees, A.MacDowall, R.Stanaway	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	4m03.273s	41.328s
49	GTE Am	P.Dempsey, P.Long, M.Seefried	Dempsey Racing - Proton	Porsche	4m03.367s	41.422s
50	GTE Am	P.Perazzini, M.Cioci	AF Corse	Ferrari	4m03.767s	41.822s
51	GTE Am	C.Ried, K.Al Qubaisi, K.Bachler	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche	4m03.888s	41.943s
52	LMP2	Y.Yamagishi, P.Perret, J.Ibanez, S.Raffin	Ibanez Racing	ORECA/Nissan	4m03.925s	41.980s
53	GTE Am	P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	4m05.448s	43.503s
54	GTE Am	J.Laursen, M.Mac, A.Rizzoli	Formula Racing	Ferrari	4m05.947s	44.002s
55	GTE Am	A.Al Faisal, K.Giermaziak, M.Avenatti	JMW Motorsport	Ferrari	4m06.469s	44.524s
56	GTE Am	D.Cameron, M.Griffin, A.Mortimer	AF Corse	Ferrari	4m06.955s	45.010s
57	LMP3	L.Tomlinson, C.Robertson, C.Hoy	Team LNT	Ginetta/Nissan	4m07.232s	45.287s
58	GTE Am	H.C.Chen, G.Vannelet, M.Parisy	Team AAI	Porsche	4m07.735s	45.790s
59	GTE Am	M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, P.Keen	Gulf Racing UK	Porsche	4m08.536s	46.591s
60	GTE Am	J.Bleekemolen, B.Keating, M.Miller	Riley Motorsports-Ti Auto	SRT/Dodge	4m08.609s	46.664s
61	GTE Am	R.Goethe, S.Hall, F.Castellacci	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	4m10.083s	48.138s
62	GTE Am	J.San Chen, A.Kapadia, X.Maassen	Team AAI	Porsche	4m10.736s	48.791s
63	GTE Pro	M.Sorensen, C.Nygaard, N.Thiim	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	4m16.916s	54.971s
64	GTE Am	Y.Mallegol, J-M.Bachelier, H.Blank, E.Mouez	AF Corse	Ferrari	4m20.327s	58.382s