Silverstone WEC: Porsche's Mark Webber and Brendon Hartley on pole

Webber and Hartley set the two fastest laps of the 20-minute, two-driver session and did enough to take pole by six tenths of a second from the sister car driven by Neel Jani and Romain Dumas.

Webber set a 1m39.908s best on his lap before Hartley went quicker with a 1m39.634s to lower their two-lap average to 1m39.721s.

Hartley said: "The engineers did a good job in putting me out in clean air.

"I had a good target time in front of me; Mark's time put a lot of pressure on me."

Jani set a best lap of 1m39.974s and Dumas a 1m40.706s, which gave them an average of 1m40.340s.

Lucas di Grassi and Oliver Jarvis took third position for Audi, neither breaking the 1m40s barrier on the way to a 1m40.352s average.

Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi were fourth in the best of the Toyotas, with an average a further three tenths behind.

Andre Lotterer and Marcel Fassler ended up fifth in the second Audi and Stephane Sarrazin and Mike Conway sixth for Toyota.

The G-Drive Racing squad locked out the top two positions in LMP2 with its Ligier-Nissan JSP2s.

Ricardo Gonzalez and Luis Felipe 'Pipo' Derani were fastest on a 1m48.021s, which put them just six hundredths ahead of Julien Canal.

Aston Martin Racing took a clean sweep of the top three positions in GTE Pro with its fleet of Vantage GTEs.

Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen were the only drivers to dip under the two-minute barrier in the Danish-crewed #95 entry to take pole with a two-lap average of 1m59.970s.

That put them two tenths up on Richie Stanaway and Fernando Rees, while Darren Turner and Stefan Mucke were third, with an average a further tenth behind, and Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander fourth.

Aston also took pole in GTE Am with Paul Dalla Lana and Pedro Lamy.

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