The #7 Toyota of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose-Maria Lopez has claimed pole position for the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The trio's fastest time of 03:15:497 was quicker than the 03:15:908 set by the #8 TS050 Hybrid of Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Fernando Alonso for second.
The #17 SMP Racing BR Engineering BR1-AER of Stephane Sarrazin, Egor Orudzhev, Sergey Sirotkin was the fastest of the non-hybrid LMP1s with a time of 03:16:159.
The pair of SMP Racing machines were split by the #3 Rebellion R13-Gibson of Thomas Laurent, Nathanaël Berthon, Gustavo Menezes, who beat out the #11 SMP Racing car by just under three-tenths. The #1 Rebellion was sixth, with Dragonspeed seventh and ByKolles in eighth.
In LMP2, Graff surprised by taking pole position from the WEC favorites with a 03:25:073 set by Tristan Gommendy. TDS Racing came second, and Spa race winners Dragonspeed were third. WEC championship leaders Signatech Alpine took fourth, while the #48 IDEC Sport Oreca completed the top five.
In GTE Pro, Aston Martin Racing took top honours as a 03:48:000 from Marco Sorensen was enough to hold off the #67 Ford Team Chip Ganassi and the #63 Corvette of Jan Magnussen, Antonio Garcia and Mike Rockenfeller.
Porsche proved dominant in GTE Am, with the #88 Dempsey-Proton Porsche of Satori Hoshino, Giorgio Roda and Matteo Cairoli beating out the #77 sister car of Matt Campbell, Christian Ried and Julien Andlauer.
Third place went to the #86 Gulf Racing Porsche of Mike Wainright, Ben Barker and Thomas Preining.
The JMW Motorsport Ferrari of Jeff Segal, Rodrigo Baptista and Wei Lu took fourth. Porsche also rounded out the top five, with the #78 Proton Porsche of father and son Prette and Vincent Abril taking fifth.
Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Gap First |
1 | Mike CONWAY | Toyota Gazoo Racing | 3:15.497 | |
2 | Sébastien BUEMI | Toyota Gazoo Racing | 3:15.908 | 0.411 |
3 | Stéphane SARRAZIN | SMP Racing | 3:16.159 | 0.662 |
4 | Thomas LAURENT | Rebellion Racing | 3:16.404 | 0.907 |
5 | Vitaly PETROV | SMP Racing | 3:16.665 | 1.168 |
6 | Neel JANI | Rebellion Racing | 3:16.810 | 1.313 |
7 | Henrik HEDMAN | DragonSpeed | 3:20.200 | 4.703 |
8 | Tom DILLMANN | Bykolles Racing Team | 3:23.109 | 7.612 |
9 | François PERRODO | TDS Racing | 3:25.345 | 9.848 |
10 | Roberto GONZALEZ | DragonSpeed | 3:25.667 | 10.170 |
11 | Nicolas LAPIERRE | Signatech Alpine Matmut | 3:25.874 | 10.377 |
12 | Paul LAFARGUE | Idec Sport | 3:26.011 | 10.514 |
13 | Roman RUSINOV | G-Drive Racing | 3:26.257 | 10.760 |
14 | Philip HANSON | United Autosports | 3:26.543 | 11.046 |
15 | Ho-Pin TUNG | Jackie Chan DC Racing | 3:26.821 | 11.324 |
16 | Frits VAN EERD | Racing Team Nederland | 3:27.107 | 11.610 |
17 | Ryan CULLEN | United Autosports | 3:27.509 | 12.012 |
18 | Anders FJORDBACH | High Class Racing | 3:27.610 | 12.113 |
19 | René BINDER | Panis Barthez Competition | 3:27.790 | 12.293 |
20 | David HEINEMEIER-HANSSON | Jackie Chan DC Racing | 3:28.049 | 12.552 |
21 | Nicolas JAMIN | Duqueine Engineering | 3:28.195 | 12.698 |
22 | Tristan GOMMENDY | Graff | 3:28.426 | 12.929 |
23 | David ZOLLINGER | Algarve Pro Racing | 3:28.457 | 12.960 |
24 | John FARANO | RLR M Sport / Tower Events | 3:28.803 | 13.306 |
25 | Roberto LACORTE | Cetilar R. Villorba Corse | 3:28.942 | 13.445 |
26 | Jakub SMIECHOWSKI | Inter Europol Competition | 3:30.744 | 15.247 |
27 | Miro KONOPKA | ARC Bratislava | 3:34.146 | 18.649 |
28 | Erwin CREED | Larbre Competition | 3:34.913 | 19.416 |
29 | Nicki THIIM | Aston Martin Racing | 3:48.000 | 32.503 |
30 | Andy PRIAULX | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | 3:48.112 | 32.615 |
31 | Jan MAGNUSSEN | Corvette Racing | 3:48.830 | 33.333 |
32 | Patrick PILET | Porsche GT Team | 3:48.907 | 33.410 |
33 | Augusto FARFUS | BMW Team MTEK | 3:49.108 | 33.611 |
34 | Joey HAND | Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA | 3:49.116 | 33.619 |
35 | Michael CHRISTENSEN | Porsche GT Team | 3:49.196 | 33.699 |
36 | Davide RIGON | AF Corse | 3:49.391 | 33.894 |
37 | Stefan MÜCKE | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | 3:49.511 | 34.014 |
38 | Ryan BRISCOE | Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA | 3:49.546 | 34.049 |
39 | Oliver GAVIN | Corvette Racing | 3:49.573 | 34.076 |
40 | Alessandro PIER GUIDI | AF Corse | 3:49.655 | 34.158 |
41 | Richard LIETZ | Porsche GT Team | 3:49.921 | 34.424 |
42 | Maxime MARTIN | Aston Martin Racing | 3:50.037 | 34.540 |
43 | Sven MÜLLER | Porsche GT Team | 3:50.278 | 34.781 |
44 | Nicky CATSBURG | BMW Team MTEK | 3:51.353 | 35.856 |
45 | Satoshi HOSHINO | Dempsey – Proton Racing | 3:51.439 | 35.942 |
46 | Pipo DERANI | Risi Competizione | 3:51.454 | 35.957 |
47 | Matt CAMPBELL | Dempsey – Proton Racing | 3:51.645 | 36.148 |
48 | Michael WAINWRIGHT | Gulf Racing | 3:51.944 | 36.447 |
49 | Jeffrey SEGAL | JMW Motorsport | 3:52.423 | 36.926 |
50 | Louis PRETTE | Proton Competition | 3:52.434 | 36.937 |
51 | Jörg BERGMEISTER | Team Project 1 | 3:52.750 | 37.253 |
52 | Thomas FLOHR | Spirit of Race | 3:52.826 | 37.329 |
53 | Takeshi KIMURA | Car Guy Racing | 3:53.474 | 37.977 |
54 | Ben KEATING | Keating Motorsports | 3:53.492 | 37.995 |
55 | Claudio SCHIAVONI | Kessel Racing | 3:53.528 | 38.031 |
56 | Paul DALLA LANA | Aston Martin Racing | 3:53.530 | 38.033 |
57 | Salih YOLUC | TF Sport | 3:53.606 | 38.109 |
58 | Cooper MACNEIL | WeatherTech Racing | 3:53.630 | 38.133 |
59 | Motoaki ISHIKAWA | MR Racing | 3:54.051 | 38.554 |
60 | Manuela GOSTNER | Kessel Racing | 3:54.083 | 38.586 |
61 | Luis PEREZ-COMPANC | Clearwater Racing | 3:54.799 | 39.302 |