Kamui Kobayashi has ensured pole position for the #7 Toyota for the 89th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The Japanese ace led a front-row lockout for Toyota by posting a time of 03:23:900 to take pole, 0.295s faster than team-mate Brendon Hartley in the #8 sister car.
Behind them, Nicolas Lapierre qualified third in the #36 Alpine A480-Gibson, 1.6s off pole position.
The two Glickenhaus 007 LMHs will start from fourth and fifth respectively, with Olivier Pla in the #708 beating out team-mate Romain Dumas in the #709 car.
In LMP2, Antonio Felix da Costa came out on top in a battle with Louis Deletraz to take pole position for JOTA.
Da Costa and Deletraz traded the top time back and forth, but ultimately the Portuguese driver won out by taking the #38 ORECA 07-Gibson to a time of 03:27:950.
That was just under half a second faster than Deletraz, who took second in the #41 Team WRT ORECA 07-Gibson, with Panis Racing’s Will Stevens third.
Nyck de Vries took third for G-Drive Racing, ahead of the two United Autosports cars of Nico Jamin and Paul di Resta.
In GTE Pro, privateer squad HubAuto Racing scored a major upset by beating factory entries from Ferrari, Corvette and Porsche to class pole.
Dries Vanthoor proved quickest in the #72 Porsche 911 RSR-19 with a time of 03:46:882, just under two-tenths quicker than the #52 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo of Daniel Serra.
Nick Tandy was third for Corvette Racing, with the #51 AF Corse Ferrari of James Calado fourth ahead of the #91 Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Gianmaria Bruni.
One car in class failed to set a time: Kevin Estre crashed out of the session early by hitting the wall in the #92 Porsche 911 RSR-19 at Indianapolis and briefly halting the session with a red flag.
Julien Andlauer, meanwhile, put the #88 Dempsey-Proton Porsche 911 RSR-19 on pole in GTE Am with a time of 03:47:987, ahead of the #86 GR Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Tom Gamble.
Matteo Cairoli was third in the #56 Team Project 1 Porsche 911 RSR-19, ahead of Cetilar Racing’s Antonio Fuoco and Inception Racing’s Ben Barnicoat.
Felipe Fraga, driving the #33 TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage AMR, rounded out the class.
| # | Car | Drivers | Car | Class | Gap | km/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez | Toyota GR010 – Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 3’23.900 | 240.629 |
| 2 | 8 | Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Brendon Hartley | Toyota GR010 – Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 0.295 | 240.282 |
| 3 | 36 | Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere | Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 1.674 | 238.670 |
| 4 | 708 | Pipo Derani Franck Mailleux Olivier Pla | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 1.739 | 238.594 |
| 5 | 709 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Romain Dumas | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 3.031 | 237.105 |
| 6 | 38 | Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 4.050 | 235.943 |
| 7 | 41 | Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Ye Yifei | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 4.570 | 235.354 |
| 8 | 65 | Julien Canal Will Stevens James Allen | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 4.686 | 235.223 |
| 9 | 26 | Roman Rusinov Franco Colapinto Nyck de Vries | Aurus 01 | LMP2 | 5.043 | 234.821 |
| 10 | 32 | Nico Jamin Jonathan Aberdein Manuel Maldonado | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 5.178 | 234.670 |
| 11 | 23 | Paul di Resta Alex Lynn Wayne Boyd | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 6.127 | 233.609 |
| 12 | 72 | Dries Vanthoor Alvaro Parente Maxime Martin | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 22.982 | 216.255 |
| 13 | 52 | Daniel Serra Miguel Molina Sam Bird | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 23.163 | 216.082 |
| 14 | 64 | Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims | Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 23.193 | 216.054 |
| 15 | 51 | Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Côme Ledogar | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 23.347 | 215.907 |
| 16 | 91 | Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 23.796 | 215.482 |
| 17 | 88 | Julien Andlauer Dominique Bastien Lance David Arnold | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 24.087 | 215.207 |
| 18 | 86 | Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Tom Gamble | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 24.660 | 214.667 |
| 19 | 56 | Egidio Perfetti Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 24.976 | 214.371 |
| 20 | 47 | Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 25.487 | 213.893 |
| 21 | 71 | Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 25.577 | 213.809 |
| 22 | 33 | Ben Keating Dylan Pereira Felipe Fraga | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 25.776 | 213.624 |
| 23 | 92 | Kevin Estre Neel Jani Michael Christensen | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO |
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