Le Mans 24 Hours test day: Brendon Hartley leads Porsche sweep

Brendon Hartley took the top spot in the #17 Porsche 919 with a 3m21.061s lap, which put him nearly nine tenths up on the #18 sister car driven by Neel Jani.

Jani's 3m21.945s was four tenths faster than the best Audi time, set by Marco Bonanomi aboard the #9 R18 e-tron quattro.

Hartley set his time during a brief period when the track was fully dry at the beginning of the second four-hour session after lunch, while Jani and Bonanomi put in their quickest laps in the morning before the rain arrived.

Hartley, who shares his Porsche with Mark Webber and Timo Bernhard, said: "With only three hours of drying running, it was a bit of luck to get the Porsche Curves clear.

"It was good to be fastest on a personal level, but it was also a constructive test for us - we made a big step in terms of performance and balance between session one and session two."

Nick Tandy was fourth fastest in the final Porsche, just two hundredths behind Bonanomi's Audi, while Andre Lotterer was fifth quickest in the #7 Audi.

Best Toyota time of the day was a 3m25.321s set by Kazuki Nakajima in the afternoon, which put the #1 TS040 HYBRID seventh in the times.

The new Nissan GT-R LM MISMO recorded a best time of 3m43.383s in the hands of Olivier Pla, which left it behind the LMP2 frontrunners.

Laurens Vanthoor's morning time stood as the best of the day in LMP2.

The Belgian's fastest time in the OAK Racing Ligier-Honda JSP2 of 3m41.919s was more than half a second clear of Karun Chandhok's afternoon best of a 3m42.405s aboard the Murphy Prototypes ORECA-Nissan 03R.

Darren Turner edged out Oliver Gavin in GTE Pro with an afternoon time of 3m58.069s aboard the lead Aston Martin Vantage GTE.

Gavin's morning best of 3m58.162s for Corvette Racing stood as the second best time of the day in class.

Aston Martin Racing also topped the times in GTE Am with Pedro Lamy.

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