Fuoco carried on where fellow works Ferrari driver Yifei Ye left off in first practice aboard the #83 customer AF Corse-run example, setting a lap of 1m30.957s with over an hour remaining in the session that could not be surpassed.
The effort put him 0.342 seconds clear of the championship-leading #6 Penske Porsche Motorsport 963 LMDh in which Kevin Estre had previously clocked the benchmark time.
A late flyer from Robert Shwartzman in the #83 Ferrari he shared with Ye and Robert Kubica vaulted him into third spot, and he ended up 0.374s adrift of Fuoco following a further improvement that didn’t improve his position.
Brendon Hartley in the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID LMH was the only other driver to lap within a second of the outright pace, placing fourth with a best time 0.772s shy. Team-mate Mike Conway was a further eight places and 0.984s behind in the #8 Toyota.
Callum Ilott was fifth-quickest in the best of the privateer Jota Porsche 963s, heading the leading effort from Peugeot’s heavily-revised 9X8 LMH.
Stoffel Vandoorne was 1.543s down on Fuoco in sixth aboard the #94 Peugeot, just 0.004s ahead of Mick Schumacher in the #36 Alpine A424 LMDh and the #93 Peugeot of Jean-Eric Vergne.
James Calado put the second of the factory Ferraris into ninth in the final five minutes of the session, but Rene Rast left it even later to complete the top 10 as the chequered flag was waved in the #20 BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh.
Mirko Bortolotti set the fastest time in the sole Lamborghini SC63 LMDh that was 1.906s off the pace in 15th, ahead of the Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh in which Alex Lynn managed a 1m32.879s.
#81 TF Sport Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R: Tom Van Rompuy, Rui Andrade, Charlie Eastwood
Photo by: Emanuele Clivati | AG Photo
A last-gasp effort from Alessio Rovera’s Ferrari thwarted another TF Sport Corvette 1-2 in the LMGT3 class.
Charlie Eastwood set the pace in the #81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R courtesy of a 1m41.896s set with 29 minutes remaining, to surpass team-mate Daniel Juncadella’s earlier effort by 0.266s.
But Rovera’s flyer as the session came to its end, aboard the #55 AF Corse-run Ferrari 296, put him into second, 0.187s down on Eastwood.
Heart of Racing’s Alex Riberas went fourth-quickest in the best of the Aston Martin Vantages, a little over half a second behind, ahead of Ferrari factory driver Davide Rigon’s #54 296.
| Cla | Nº | Driver | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
| 1 | 50 | Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen |
Ferrari | 1’30.957 | 51 | |
| 2 | 6 | Kévin Estre André Lotterer Laurens Vanthoor |
Porsche | 1’31.299 | 0.342 | 46 |
| 3 | 83 | Robert Kubica R.Shwartzman Yifei Ye |
Ferrari | 1’31.331 | 0.374 | 52 |
| 4 | 8 | Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa |
Toyota | 1’31.729 | 0.772 | 49 |
| 5 | 12 | Will Stevens Callum Ilott Norman Nato |
Porsche | 1’32.300 | 1.343 | 47 |
| 6 | 94 | Paul Di Resta Loïc Duval S.Vandoorne |
Peugeot | 1’32.496 | 1.539 | 44 |
| 7 | 36 | Nicolas Lapierre Mick Schumacher M.Vaxivière |
Alpine | 1’32.500 | 1.543 | 51 |
| 8 | 93 | Mikkel Jensen Nico Müller Jean-Éric Vergne |
Peugeot | 1’32.568 | 1.611 | 43 |
| 9 | 51 | A.P.Guidi James Calado A.Giovinazzi |
Ferrari | 1’32.627 | 1.670 | 49 |
| 10 | 20 | S.van der Linde Robin Frijns René Rast |
BMW | 1’32.655 | 1.698 | 43 |
| 11 | 15 | Dries Vanthoor R.Marciello Marco Wittmann |
BMW | 1’32.684 | 1.727 | 51 |
| 12 | 7 | Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Nyck de Vries |
Toyota | 1’32.713 | 1.756 | 48 |
| 13 | 99 | Harry Tincknell Neel Jani Julien Andlauer |
Porsche | 1’32.792 | 1.835 | 37 |
| 14 | 35 | Paul-Loup Chatin Jules Gounon Charles Milesi |
Alpine | 1’32.827 | 1.870 | 52 |
| 15 | 63 | Mirko Bortolotti Edoardo Mortara Daniil Kvyat |
Lamborghini | 1’32.863 | 1.906 | 34 |
| 16 | 2 | Earl Bamber Alex Lynn |
Cadillac | 1’32.879 | 1.922 | 38 |
| 17 | 38 | Jenson Button Phil Hanson Oliver Rasmussen |
Porsche | 1’32.974 | 2.017 | 34 |
| 18 | 5 | Matt Campbell M.Christensen F.Makowiecki |
Porsche | 1’33.011 | 2.054 | 43 |
| 19 | 11 | A.Serravalle Carl Bennett Jean-Karl Vernay |
Isotta Fraschini | 1’34.076 | 3.119 | 46 |
| 20 | 81 | Tom Van Rompuy Rui Andrade Charlie Eastwood |
Chevrolet | 1’41.986 | 11.029 | 37 |
| 21 | 55 | François Heriau Simon Mann Alessio Rovera |
Ferrari | 1’42.173 | 11.216 | 36 |
| 22 | 82 | Hiroshi Koizumi Sébastien Baud D.Juncadella |
Chevrolet | 1’42.252 | 11.295 | 36 |
| 23 | 27 | Ian James D.Mancinelli Alex Riberas |
Aston Martin | 1’42.530 | 11.573 | 39 |
| 24 | 54 | Thomas Flohr F.Castellacci Davide Rigon |
Ferrari | 1’42.672 | 11.715 | 39 |
| 25 | 777 | Clément Mateu Erwan Bastard Marco Sørensen |
Aston Martin | 1’42.692 | 11.735 | 42 |
| 26 | 60 | C.Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Franck Perera |
Lamborghini | 1’42.720 | 11.763 | 42 |
| 27 | 31 | Darren Leung Sean Gelael Augusto Farfus |
BMW | 1’42.856 | 11.899 | 46 |
| 28 | 85 | Sarah Bovy Doriane Pin Michelle Gatting |
Lamborghini | 1’42.883 | 11.926 | 33 |
| 29 | 92 | Alex Malykhin Joel Sturm Klaus Bachler |
Porsche | 1’42.885 | 11.928 | 42 |
| 30 | 87 | Takeshi Kimura Esteban Masson José María López |
Lexus | 1’42.934 | 11.977 | 35 |
| 31 | 95 | Josh Caygill Nico Pino Marino Sato |
McLaren | 1’43.065 | 12.108 | 45 |
| 32 | 46 | Ahmad Al Harthy Valentino Rossi Maxime Martin |
BMW | 1’43.120 | 12.163 | 44 |
| 33 | 91 | Yasser Shahin Morris Schuring Richard Lietz |
Porsche | 1’43.207 | 12.250 | 42 |
| 34 | 77 | Ryan Hardwick Z.Robichon Ben Barker |
Ford | 1’43.384 | 12.427 | 37 |
| 35 | 88 | Giorgio Roda M.O.Pedersen Dennis Olsen |
Ford | 1’43.676 | 12.719 | 37 |
| 36 | 78 | Arnold Robin T.Boguslavskiy K.van der Linde |
Lexus | 1’43.959 | 13.002 | 44 |
| 37 | 59 | James Cottingham Nicolas Costa Grégoire Saucy |
McLaren | 1’44.103 | 13.146 | 8 |