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Ferrari, Porsche locked in tight battle at the start

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Nielsen was running fractionally ahead of the #6 Porsche of Laurens Vanthoor after one hour of racing, but must serve a 10-second penalty at his next pitstop for an unsafe release.

The three Ferrari LMH cars made blistering starts as the 92nd running of Le Mans 24 Hours got away at 4pm local time, with Nicklas in the #50 car jumping from fourth to slot into second.

Nielsen then got a great run on the polesitting #6 Porsche 963 of Laurens Vanthoor, getting the move done into Indianapolis to grab the lead of the race.

The #51 Ferrari started by former Formula 1 driver Antonio Giovinazzi initially dropped to fourth, but reeled in the #3 Cadillac of Sebastien Bourdais for second on lap 2 before passing Vanthoor two tours later to establish a 1-2 for the Prancing Horse behind Nielsen.

The two Ferraris were able to build a brief buffer in the first 30 minutes of the race, but the first of the Porsches and Cadillacs managed to close back in on them, with the leading four cars peeling into the pitlane right on the tail of each other.

The factory Penske pitcrew managed to service the #6 Porsche in two fewer seconds, allowing Vanthoor to return to the track in the lead of the race. Nielsen was next in queue, but nearly ran into Bourdais’s Cadillac as he rejoined the fast lane.

In the next two laps, Nielsen was able to get back ahead of Vanthoor to retake the lead of the race, but is likely to drop back down the order when he comes in to serve his penalty.

Third place is currently held by the sister factory #51 Ferrari of Giovinazzi, who served a 10-second stop/go penalty at the first pitstop due to an offence in qualifying, the Italian getting ahead of Bourdais in the second stint.

The #8 Toyota completed the top five with Sebastien Buemi at the wheel, with Charles Milesi sixth in the best of the Alpine LMDh cars on the French manufacturer’s return to the top class.

An impressive launch from 12th on the grid helped Robert Kubica to move up to seventh in the #83 AF Corse Ferrari, which also was sanctioned in qualifying like the factory #51 car.

The first Hypercar manufacturer to suffer a setback was BMW after Marco Wittmann spun the #15 BMW M Hybrid at the esses while running in seventh position, lightly hitting the barriers. 

It forced the two-time DTM champion to make an early pitstop, leaving him firmly at the bottom of the Hypercar order.

The #99 Proton Porsche started by 2016 Le Mans winner Neel Jani was wheeled back into the garage after just 45 minutes on the clock.

The #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid that started from the rear of the class made little headways in the opening hour, with Nyck de Vries — who was involved in a collision with a Lexus GT3 car in warm-up — only climbing up to 16th place.

In LMP2, a rapid pitstop helped Bent Viscaal to take the lead in the #9 Proton ORECA 07 ahead of #65 Panis Racing entry of Mathis Beche and the #22 United Autosports car of Oliver Jarvis.

Polesitter Louis Deletraz had led comfortably in the first stint in the #14 AO by TF Oreca, but a change of driver in the pits meant PJ Hyett rejoined the field in the lower half of the top 10.

A brief slow zone was caused by gentleman driver Ben Keating when he beached his #23 United Autosports Oreca at the Dunlop Curve. He was able to continue after receiving external assistance in form of a crane.

The LMGT3 class continues to be led by Frederik Schandorff in the polesitting  #70 Inception McLaren 720S GT3 despite a big challenge from Ben Barker in the #77 Proton Ford Mustang GT3.

Barker had started from fourth but made rapid gains in the early laps to grab second from Aliaksandr Malkyhin, whose #93 Manthey PureRXcing Porsche 911 GT3 R continued to tumble down the order in the opening hour.

Larry Ten Voorde holds third in the #66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari 296 GT3.

Le Mans 24 Hours 2024, Hour 1 results

POS # CLASS TEAM CAR LAPS GAPS PITS
1 50 Hypercar H FERRARI AF CORSE 16 — 1
2 6 Hypercar H PORSCHE PENSKE MOTORSPORT 16 0.423 1
3 3 Hypercar H CADILLAC RACING 16 2.558 1
4 51 Hypercar H FERRARI AF CORSE 16 3.095 1
5 8 Hypercar H TOYOTA GAZOO RACING 16 3.617 1
6 35 Hypercar H ALPINE ENDURANCE TEAM 16 4.017 1
7 83 Hypercar H AF CORSE 16 4.914 1
8 36 Hypercar H ALPINE ENDURANCE TEAM 16 6.593 1
9 5 Hypercar H PORSCHE PENSKE MOTORSPORT 16 10.496 1
10 38 Hypercar H HERTZ TEAM JOTA 16 11.602 1
11 311 Hypercar H WHELEN CADILLAC RACING 16 12.975 1
12 4 Hypercar H PORSCHE PENSKE MOTORSPORT 16 13.782 1
13 2 Hypercar H CADILLAC RACING 16 15.690 1
14 93 Hypercar H PEUGEOT TOTALENERGIES 16 16.762 1
15 12 Hypercar H HERTZ TEAM JOTA 16 17.102 1
16 94 Hypercar H PEUGEOT TOTALENERGIES 16 18.566 1
17 7 Hypercar H TOYOTA GAZOO RACING 16 19.763 1
18 19 Hypercar H LAMBORGHINI IRON LYNX 16 20.550 1
19 63 Hypercar H LAMBORGHINI IRON LYNX 16 20.702 1
20 20 Hypercar H BMW M TEAM WRT 16 21.039 1
21 11 Hypercar H ISOTTA FRASCHINI

 

Isotta Fraschini Tipo6-C

 16 1:19.761 1
22 9 LM P2 PROTON COMPETITION 15 2:41.456 1
23 65 LM P2 P/A PANIS RACING 15 2:47.163 1
24 22 LM P2 UNITED AUTOSPORTS 15 2:47.882 1
25 37 LM P2 COOL RACING 15 2:48.176 1
26 28 LM P2 IDEC SPORT 15 2:51.746 1
27 15 Hypercar H BMW M TEAM WRT 15 2:52.058 2
28 10 LM P2 VECTOR SPORT 15 2:53.457 1
29 24 LM P2 NIELSEN RACING 15 3:10.628 1
30 34 LM P2 INTER EUROPOL COMPETITION 15 3:13.383 1
31 30 LM P2 P/A DUQUEINE TEAM 15 3:30.510 1
32 14 LM P2 P/A AO BY TF 15 3:34.007 1
33 183 LM P2 P/A AF CORSE 15 5.996 1
34 45 LM P2 P/A CROWDSTRIKE RACING BY APR 15 34.926 1
35 33 LM P2 P/A DKR ENGINEERING 15 38.362 2
36 23 LM P2 P/A UNITED AUTOSPORTS USA 14 2 laps 1
37 99 Hypercar H PROTON COMPETITION 14 3:14.735 2
38 70 LMGT3 INCEPTION RACING

 

McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo

 14 3:22.726 1
39 77 LMGT3 PROTON COMPETITION 14 3:23.717 1
40 66 LMGT3 JMW MOTORSPORT 14 3:28.304 1
41 88 LMGT3 PROTON COMPETITION 14 6.708 1
42 59 LMGT3 UNITED AUTOSPORTS

 

McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo

 14 9.948 1
43 95 LMGT3 UNITED AUTOSPORTS

 

McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo

 14 16.399 1
44 60 LMGT3 IRON LYNX

 

Lamborghini Huracan LMGT3 Evo2

 14 17.918 1
45 46 LMGT3 TEAM WRT 14 18.902 1
46 44 LMGT3 PROTON COMPETITION 14 19.874 1
47 27 LMGT3 HEART OF RACING TEAM

 

Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3

 14 23.801 1
48 87 LMGT3 AKKODIS ASP TEAM 14 24.267 1
49 85 LMGT3 IRON DAMES

 

Lamborghini Huracan LMGT3 Evo2

 14 26.177 1
50 55 LMGT3 VISTA AF CORSE 14 26.719 1
51 92 LMGT3 MANTHEY PURERXCING

 

Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3

 14 24.254 1
52 777 LMGT3 D’STATION RACING

 

Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3

 14 44.998 1
53 91 LMGT3 MANTHEY EMA

 

Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3

 14 46.361 1
54 86 LMGT3 GR RACING 14 48.665 1
55 31 LMGT3 TEAM WRT 14 49.260 1
56 54 LMGT3 VISTA AF CORSE 14 53.157 1
57 82 LMGT3 TF SPORT 14 55.305 1
58 155 LMGT3 SPIRIT OF RACE 14 1:04.507 1
59 81 LMGT3 TF SPORT 14 1:06.852 1
60 25 LM P2 ALGARVE PRO RACING 13 3 laps 1
61 78 LMGT3 AKKODIS ASP TEAM 13 2:34.126 1
62 47 LM P2 P/A COOL RACING 10 6 laps 1



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No «point to prove» for Aitken after 2023 race-defining Le Mans crash

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Aitken is taking part in the World Endurance Championship classic for the third time, having contested it with the LMP2 Algarve Pro Racing squad in 2022 before joining the Action Express Racing (rebranded Whelen Engineering Racing at Le Mans) Cadillac squad in IMSA.

He was at the wheel for the race start at Circuit de la Sarthe last year. However, he was caught out by the damp track at the Daytona chicane on the very first lap and hit the wall.

Although the damage was not terminal, repair work was needed; Aitken and team-mates Pipo Derani and Alexander Sims then lost eleven laps and any hopes of a podium finish.

One year on, the British driver is keen to repay his team’s trust without any knee-jerk reaction.

«I’m not really going to come into this Le Mans looking to change anything,» he told Autosport.

«After last year, I went through everything a billion times – as you would.

«In the end, I’m just trying to do the best job I can, and I slightly overstepped. But I don’t think that I drove like an idiot.

Damage on the #311 in 2023.

Damage on the #311 in 2023.

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«I’m lucky that I have the support of the Cadillac crew. They’re all behind me, and they don’t believe I need to change anything major either.

«The worst thing would be to come into this year’s race – whether I start the race, or Pipo, or Felipe – to come in with a point to prove, because that’s when you make more mistakes.»

Aitken is particularly thankful that his team did not lose faith in him after his «really heartbreaking» error. «I wouldn’t have blamed them at all if they had, but they’re a fantastic group of people,» he praised. «And even if it hurts, they know that they make mistakes sometimes as well, and they didn’t hold it against me.

«If I do it a second time, they probably are free to kick me around a bit and call me all the names. That’s the difference: you learn from the mistake, you don’t do it again and you move on.»

A winner at the Sebring IMSA round last year, Aitken started the 2024 campaign in convincing fashion alongside Derani, with the duo taking three pole positions and as many second places in five events.

This gives him «confidence in [his] ability» and he certainly doesn’t lack ambition ahead of a Le Mans race he and team-mates Derani and Felipe Drugovich will start from 18th in the #311 Cadillac V-Series.R.

«I’m dreaming of a podium,» Aitken admitted. «A top step is not out of question.

«Anything can happen, and I don’t think until the first couple of stints happen in the race – that’s when we get the clear picture of the race. Even in qualifying, it’s never quite the same.

«I’ll be crossing my fingers that Saturday afternoon we show good pace, and then that will be game on.»

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Le Mans 24 Hours: What's changed for WEC's main event in 2024?

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The world’s most prestigious endurance race is back as this weekend drivers will tackle Circuit de la Sarthe for the Le Mans 24 Hours.Ferrari is the defending champion having won the race’s centenary edition in 2023, which was its first overall victory at Le Mans since 1965.  But the Italian manufacturer has bigger competition this year as the Hypercar class, introduced in 2021, now consists …Keep reading



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Le Mans 24 Hours: Full starting grid

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The #6 Porsche will line up on pole position after Kevin Estre topped Thursday’s Hyperpole session, with the #3 Cadillac that was qualified by Sebastien Bourdais completing the front row.Alex Lynn had actually set a quicker time than Bourdais in the 30-minute pole shootout, but the #2 Caddy has a five-place grid penalty carried forward from the Spa round of WEC, where team-mate Earl Bamber was …Keep reading



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Toyota edges Ferrari in final night practice

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Hartley clocked a best time of 3m29.451s in his #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar after 20 minutes of the hour-long session, and remained at the head of the leaderboard as rain began to fall at the Circuit de la Sarthe.

The three-time Le Mans winner, sharing the car that will start 11th with Ryo Hirakawa and Sebastien Buemi, was challenged hardest by Molina in the factory #50 Ferrari 499P LMH but the Spaniard fell fractionally short with his best effort at the session’s mid-way point.

It means the #8 Toyota topped three of the four practice sessions prior to Saturday morning’s warm-up, with Buemi also clocking the fastest time in Wednesday’s night practice after Hartley paced FP1.

Molina did however depose the #20 WRT-run BMW M Hybrid V8 of Sheldon van der Linde, who clocked in 0.109s behind Hartley.

Mikkel Jensen led the charge for Peugeot, setting the fourth-fastest time in his 9X8 LMH, while Dries Vanthoor rebounded from his Hyperpole crash to make it two BMWs inside the top five in his #15 WRT example.

#50 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, Nicklas Nielsen

#50 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, Nicklas Nielsen

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Charles Milesi was sixth-quickest in the best of the Alpine A424 LMDhs, 0.294s off the pace, slotting in ahead of Pipo Derani’s Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh and fellow IMSA SportsCar Championship protagonist Mathieu Jaminet in the guesting #4 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh.

Nicolas Lapierre in the second Alpine and Hypercar returnee Jose Maria Lopez in the #7 Toyota completed the top 10, the Japanese car subsequently making two visits to the run-off area in the hands of Nyck de Vries.

The #6 PPM 963 that snatched a dramatic last-gasp pole position in Kevin Estre’s hands during the Hyperpole session didn’t set a representative time in its five tours of the circuit to end up at the foot of the Hypercar leaderboard in 21st.

The LMP2 times were headed by the #23 United Autosports ORECA-Gibson 07 of Ben Hanley, who clocked a best lap of 3m37.121s in the opening minutes of the session. 

The Briton’s machine, entered in the pro-am sub-category, edged out the identical Nielsen Racing entry of 2023 Le Mans class winner Fabio Scherer by 0.295s, as IndyCar stand-in Nolan Siegel took third in the second United ORECA.

After Louis Deletraz stormed to the top spot in Hyperpole, the pro-am AO by TF entry devoted night running to its bronze driver PJ Hyett.

The Auto Sport Promotion-run Lexus RC F GT3 headed the times in LMGT3, as Esteban Masson’s early benchmark could not be usurped. 

The silver-rated Frenchman dislodged the Proton Competition Ford Mustang GT3 of Ben Barker, who paced qualifying and FP2, with a 3m58.775s lap that put him 0.344s clear of Marino Sato’s #95 United Autosports McLaren.

Barker took third ahead of Jordan Taylor’s Spirit of Race Ferrari 296 GT3, as the polesitting Inception Racing McLaren completed just three laps.

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Inception McLaren confident of fighting WEC regulars after Le Mans GT3 pole

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Brendan Iribe topped the Hyperpole session in his McLaren 720S GT3 Evo, entered under the Inception Racing banner, with a 3m58.120s lap that put him 0.808s clear of Alexander Malykhin’s #92 Manthey PureRxcing Porsche that leads the LMGT3 standings in the WEC.

The Optimum-run Inception outfit that competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship and GT World Challenge Europe earned an invitational entry to Le Mans after Iribe, who shares with Ollie Millroy and Frederik Schandorff, finished as the best-placed bronze driver in IMSA’s GTD ranking last season.

Team boss Shaun Goff told Motorsport.com that he was optimistic his squad could go toe-to-toe with the WEC regulars in the championship’s blue ribband event, in the first outing for McLaren at La Sarthe since 1998.

«Qualifying is about a small part of the package, really,» Goff said. «The team will show its strength in the race on Saturday and Sunday.

«If we can stay out of the box, we’ve certainly got the drivers and the team to go against the WEC regulars.

«We love a challenge and McLaren deserve to be on the grid. Hopefully we can pull all that together for Sunday.

«I can’t be more proud of everyone at the moment, so I’m pretty stoked.»

#70 Inception Racing McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo: Brendan Iribe, Ollie Millroy, Frederik Schandorff

#70 Inception Racing McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo: Brendan Iribe, Ollie Millroy, Frederik Schandorff

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Iribe set two laps quick enough for pole on his third appearance at Le Mans, spinning while set to improve in the Ford Chicane shortly before a red flag caused by Dries Vanthoor’s BMW M V8 Hybrid LMDh crashing at Indianapolis.

The American was the only driver to improve following the red flag.

«The whole team are buzzing for him, he’s a mega hard-working guy and he deserves that pole position,» added Goff.

«He’s a super positive guy, Brendan. He’s quite experienced now, and he kept his cool and just did the job. He was having fun out there.»

Neither of the two United Autosport McLarens entered in the full WEC made the Hyperpole session, and will start from 11th and 19th positions, although the #59 car topped Friday’s FP3 session.

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Porsche snatches pole from Cadillac with last-gasp effort

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Estre was the last Hypercar runner to cross the chequered flag and clocked a time of 3m24.634s in the #6 factory Porsche Penske 963, overhauling the #2 Cadillac of Alex Lynn and the sister #3 car that had led for the majority of the 30 minute session in the hands of Sebastien Bourdais.

Bourdais had set the initial pace in the pole shootout with a time of 3m25.294s in the additional entry fielded by Chip Ganassi Racing at Le Mans, before staying out in the first run and improving to a 3m24.816s.

All cars were back out on track for their second run when Dries Vanthoor suffered a heavy hit to the barriers going into Indianapolis, causing the red flag and leaving the #15 BMW M Hybrid V8 that had topped the first qualifying session out of the fight for pole position.

Bourdais elected to sit out when Hyperpole resumed with just under eight minutes left on the clock, with his initial effort appearing to be enough to claim pole position for Cadillac.

An improvement for Alex Lynn in the sister #2 V-Series.R entry provisionally made it a 1-2 for Cadillac, but Estre spoiled the party for the General Motors brand with his last ditch effort as he narrowly claimed pole for Porsche by 0.148s.

The two Ganassi-run Cadillacs will now line up second and third, with the two factory Ferraris the next up in fourth and fifth. Alessandro Pier Guidi was the quicker of the two 499Ps, the #51 machine, heading the sister car qualified by Antonio Fuoco by over four tenths of a second, who aborted his final run after a mistake at the Dunlop Chicane.

The sole Alpine A424 that progressed into the final leg of qualifying took sixth with Paul-Loup Chatin, ending up just over a second off the pace of polesitter Estre.

Only seven Hypercar entries took part in the pole shootout, with Jota still rebuilding its #12 Porsche 963 LMDh after Callum Ilott damaged the original chassis in night practice on Wednesday.

The first of the two Jota Porsches is set to line up seventh on the grid, with the #15 BMW that Vanthoor crashed ending up eighth.

​Deletraz takes LMP2 pole
 

In LMP2, Louis Deletraz claimed pole position with a brilliant effort of 3m33.217s in the #14 AO by TF ORECA-GIBSON 07 that is entered in the Pro-Am subclass.

That put him six tenths clear of Job van Uitert in the #28 IDEC Sport entry, with Mathias Beche taking third in the #65 Panis Racing Oreca.

Deletraz was already leading the LMP2 field when the session was halted for Vanthoor’s Hypercar crash, but the Swiss driver managed to find even more time on his final run to secure pole position in the intermediate class.

Wednesday qualifying pacesetter Malthe Jakobsen made no improvement in the final minutes, consigning the #37 Cool Racing entry to sixth among the eight Hyperpole runners.

McLaren heads GT3 class

Inception Racing’s Brendon Iribe took top honours in the LMGT3 division despite wrecking a quick lap with a spin coming out of the final chicane.

Iribe managed to deliver a late improvements in the #70 McLaren 720S GT3 to qualify eight tenths clear of the chasing pack, led by championship leader Aliaksandr Malykhin in the #92 Manthey PureRxcing Porsche 911 GT3 R.

Giacomo Petrobelli finished just 0.010s adrift of Malykhin in third in the #66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari 296 GT3, making it two non-regular WEC cars inside the top three.



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Le Mans 24 Hours Hyperpole qualifying delayed due to barrier repair

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The pole shootout for the fourth round of the 2024 World Endurance Championship did not begin as scheduled at 8pm local time, with the race control subsequently communicating 8:30pm as the new start time.

The Hyperpole session was further pushed forward to 8:35pm, as the work continued on replacing the armco barriers between Mulsanne and Indianapolis.

The first of the two contests for the weekend was red-flagged with about 15 minutes left on the clock when Graff driver Louis Rossi heavily crashed his #9 Ligier JS P320 LMP3 car.

Rossi was able to get out of the car on his own, but both his car and the barriers sustained heavy damage in the contact.

No replays of the incident were shown and it remains clear if a technical problem was to blame for the crash. An accident with another car can also not be ruled out.

#83 AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Robert Kubica, Robert Shwartzman, Yifei Ye

#83 AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Robert Kubica, Robert Shwartzman, Yifei Ye

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Eight cars from each of the three classes are due to take part in Hyperpole, which will decide how they will line up on the grid for the 92th running of the French endurance classic.

However, only seven vehicles will effectively be contending for pole position in Hypercar, with Jota sitting out the session as it rebuilds its #12 Porsche 963 around a new chassis.

The British team only got through into Q2 after Kamui Kobayashi lost all his laps in the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid for causing a red flag. But Callum Ilott then suffered a crash of his own in night practice later on Wednesday, wrecking the Porsche tub beyond repair.

Dries Vanthoor had topped the opening segment of the qualifying in the #15 BMW M Hybrid V8, leading the #3 Cadillac V-Series.R of Sebastien Bourdais. 

Malthe Jakobsen put the #37 Cool Racing ORECA-Gibson 07 on top in the LMP2 class, while the new LMGT3 division was led by Ben Barker in the #77 Proton Ford Mustang GT3.



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Ferrari leads Porsche, BMW in tight FP3

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With Hyperpole the only pure-performance exercise still coming up – and involving just 24 of the 62 entries – everyone focused on race preparation with long runs during the three-hour Thursday afternoon session, which took place under overcast skies with gentle temperatures ranging from 20°C to 22°C.

Fuoco set the quickest time in 3m27.283s – nearly three seconds slower than the #15 BMW’s qualifying effort at the hands of Dries Vanthoor on Wednesday, with the Belgian third quickest in FP3 in 3m27.432s.

Porsche took second place thanks to Kevin Estre’s 3m27.391s effort in the #6 963, while Sebastien Bourdais lapped in 3m27.471s with the #3 Cadillac in fourth.

As a consequence, the top four was separated by fewer than two tenths of a second.

Toyota was the fifth manufacturer in the top five, with Kamui Kobayashi setting a 3m27.803s at the wheel of the #7 GR010 HYBRID.

Three Cadillac drivers were the next references, close to a second slower than the leading Porsche.

Alex Lynn was the most competitive of them in 3m28.245s, while his #2 team-mate Alex Palou had previously lapped in 3m28.442s. Meanwhile, Felipe Drugovich’s #311 Action Express entry set a 3m28.345s.

The #8 Toyota took eighth place in 3m28.642s thanks to Brendon Hartley, despite an inconsequential trip through the gravel at pit entry for team-mate Sebastian Buemi.

Alpine, Lamborghini, BMW and Peugeot also lapped in 3m30.000s or less, with only Isotta Fraschini lagging far behind. The #11 car didn’t manage any better than a 3m31.461s.

Meanwhile, Jota’s #12 entry shared by Callum Ilott, Norman Nato and Will Stevens didn’t run at all, as it is in the process of being built on a new monocoque following Ilott’s crash in FP2 last night.

#59 United Autosports McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo: James Cottingham, Nicolas Costa, Gregoire Saucy

#59 United Autosports McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo: James Cottingham, Nicolas Costa, Gregoire Saucy

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In LMP2, the #65 Panis Racing ORECA had an unusual session, topping the times in 3m37.217s before crashing twice. First, Rodrigo Sales spun and hit the wall at the exit of the Ford Chicane, then Scott Huffaker went off straight on at Indianapolis.

Cool Racing’s #47 machine was 0.125s away from the reference, with AO by TF’s #14 entry registering a deficit of just under half a second.

Similarly, the LMGT3 class was topped by United Autosports’ #59 McLaren despite James Cottingham crashing it at Tertre Rouge after putting two wheels on the grass. The incident caused FP3’s only red flag halfway through the session, with Frederik Schandorff stopping the #70 McLaren after Mulsanne corner seconds later.

The #60 Iron Lynx Lamborghini was just six thousandths of a second off the top, with GR Racing’s #86 Ferrari taking third place in the category.

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