Le Mans 24 Hours: Toyota leads Glickenhaus in first practice

Brendon Hartley got down to a 3m29.441s with 20 minutes of the three-hour session remaining in the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID to push the #709 Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMH down to second.

Franck Mailleux had led the way with a 3m29.917s, which was just a couple of tenths up on Pipo Derani’s 3m30.102s in the sister car, which ended up third in the final times.

A 3m30.403s set by Kamui Kobayashi aboard the #7 car set early in the session had stood as the fastest Toyota time before Hartley improved on Sebastien Buemi’s earlier best in #8.

The second Toyota was pushed down to fifth by the fastest LMP2 runner in the dying stages of the session.

Alex Lynn found just over two tenths aboard his United Autosports ORECA-Gibson 07 with a 3m30.238s to improve on a time set early in the session which had stood as best in class until his improvement.

The Alpine-Gibson A480, the final runner in the Hypercar class, ended up eighth in the classification behind three LMP2 cars courtesy of a 3m32.075s from Andre Negrao.

Antonio Felix da Costa went second in LMP2 and sixth overall in the best of the Jota ORECAs with just a handful of minute left on the clock.

His 3m31.624s just shaded Robert Kubica’s 3m31.881s in the Prema team’s solo ORECA.

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Fourth fastest in class and ninth overall was taken by Robin Frijns in the best of three WRT-run ORECAs.

#23 United Autosports USA Oreca 07 - Gibson LMP2 of Alexander Lynn, Oliver Jarvis, Joshua Pierson, Paul di Resta

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The Dutch driver’s 3m32.158s just shaded Norman Nato’s 3m32.183s in the sister Realteam by WRT ORECA.

Fifth quickest LMP2, and the best of the pro/am runners, was Mathias Beche aboard the TDS Racing entry with a 3m32.536s.

Corvette Racing maintained its test day form to take the top two positions in GTE Pro.

A 3m53.250s from Antonio Garcia aboard the #63 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R knocked team-mate Tommy Milner in the sister car off the top spot.

Milner’s 3m53.360s put him seven tenths up on the best of the rest, the #91 Porsche 911 RSR in which Gianmaria Bruni got down to 3m54.081s.

The sister Porsche took fourth in class in the hands of Michael Christensen with a 3m54.601s.

The top car from Ferrari, which was hit by reduction in power with a late Balance of Performance change ahead of the session, was the #52 factory AF Corse entry.

Antonio Fuoco got down to a 3m54.543s late in the session aboard his Ferrari 488 GTE Evo, while the sister #51 car didn’t set a representative time.

The Proton-run WeatherTech Racing squad led the way in GTE Am. A 3m55.082s from Julien Andlauer gave the US entrant’s Proton-run Porsche 911 RSR a margin of nearly nine tenths over the GR Racing Porsche.

First qualifying begins at 19:00 local time with a one-hour session from which the fastest six cars in each class will go through to tomorrow’s Hyperpole session.

Le Mans 24 Hours - FP1 results

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	8	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'29.441
2	709	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Franck Mailleux	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3'29.917	0.476
3	708	Olivier Pla Romain Dumas Pipo Derani	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3'30.102	0.661
4	23	Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'30.238	0.797
5	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'30.403	0.962
6	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'31.624	2.183
7	9	Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'31.881	2.440
8	36	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR	3'32.075	2.634
9	41	Rui Andrade Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.183	2.742
10	13	Philippe Cimadomo Mathias Beche Tijmen van der Helm	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.536	3.095
11	45	Thomas Steven James Allen Rene Binder	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.621	3.180
12	47	Sophia Flörsch John Falb Jack Aitken	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.113	3.672
13	1	Lilou Wadoux Sébastien Ogier Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.185	3.744
14	5	Dane Cameron Emmanuel Collard Felipe Nasr	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.213	3.772
15	31	Sean Gelael Robin Frijns René Rast	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.350	3.909
16	22	Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.363	3.922
17	83	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.367	3.926
18	32	Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Dries Vanthoor	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.502	4.061
19	37	Ye Yifei Ricky Taylor Niklas Krütten	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.642	4.201
20	48	Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.848	4.407
21	24	Rodrigo Sales Matthew Bell Ben Hanley	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.899	4.458
22	43	David Heinemeier Hansson Fabio Scherer Pietro Fittipaldi	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.292	4.851
23	28	Oliver Rasmussen Edward Jones Jonathan Aberdein	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.434	4.993
24	35	Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.564	5.123
25	30	Richard Bradley Guillermo Rojas Reshad de Gerus	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.700	5.259
26	65	Julien Canal Nico Jamin Job Van Uitert	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.854	5.413
27	10	Nico Müller Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.091	5.650
28	44	Miro Konopka Bent Viscaal Tristan Vautier	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.754	6.313
29	39	Eric Trouillet Sébastien Page David Droux	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.834	6.393
30	3	Laurents Hörr Jean Glorieux Alexandre Cougnaud	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'36.390	6.949
31	34	Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'36.519	7.078
32	27	Cresp Christophe Michael Jensen Steven Palette	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3'40.886	11.445
33	63	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	3'53.250	23.809
34	64	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	3'53.360	23.919
35	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'54.081	24.640
36	92	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'54.539	25.098
37	52	Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'54.543	25.102
38	74	Felipe Fraga Sam Bird Shane van Gisbergen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'54.601	25.160
39	79	Cooper MacNeil Julien Andlauer Thomas Merrill	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'55.082	25.641
40	86	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'55.941	26.500
41	33	Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'55.997	26.556
42	98	Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'56.211	26.770
43	777	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'56.257	26.816
44	85	Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.663	27.222
45	60	Claudio Schiavoni Alessandro Balzan Raffaele Giammaria	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.940	27.499
46	21	Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.954	27.513
47	56	Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'57.082	27.641
48	77	Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'57.138	27.697
49	99	Andrew Haryanto Alessio Picariello Martin Rump	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'57.237	27.796
50	57	Takeshi Kimura Frederik Schandorff Mikkel Jensen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'57.333	27.892
51	55	Duncan Cameron Matthew Griffin David Perel	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'57.345	27.904
52	61	Louis Prette Conrad Grunewald Vincent Abril	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'57.392	27.951
53	46	Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'57.514	28.073
54	80	Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella Richard Heistand	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'57.557	28.116
55	71	Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'57.793	28.352
56	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'57.964	28.523
57	93	Michael Fassbender Matt Campbell Zacharie Robichon	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'57.971	28.530
58	66	Renger van der Zande Mark Kvamme Jason Hart	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'58.081	28.640
59	75	Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Nicolas Varrone	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'58.138	28.697
60	88	Fred Poordad Maxwell Root Jan Heylen	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'59.105	29.664
61	59	Alexander West Côme Ledogar Marvin Klein	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'00.254	30.813
62	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	4'01.511	32.070
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