Mathieu Jaminet topped the third free practice session for the #5 Porsche Penske 963 Hypercar as part of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Jaminet set a fastest lap time of 3:24.717 in the #5 Porsche in a session featuring just one red flag, after #193 AF Corse Oreca 07 LMP2 driver Francois Perrodo overshot his braking into entry of the Porsche curves.
He reversed and drove back to the pits with minimal front-left bodywork damage, so the red flag allowed circuit officials to tidy up after other cars intermittently pushed or made light contact with other tyre barriers around the circuit.
Earl Bamber finished in P2 at 0.816 seconds behind Jaminet with a 3:25.533 lap time.
The other #12 JOTA Porsche finished in third after Will Stevens completed a 3:25.609 time.
Two Ferrari 499Ps were next in the finishing order, in fourth and fifth positions – the #51 AF Corse Ferrari followed by the privateer-entered #83 Ferrari.
WRT’s #20 BMW M Hybrid (Sheldon van der Linde) claimed seventh (3:26.367) ahead of the #4 Porsche Penske machine, the fastest lap of which was set by x (3:26.855).
The #311 Whelen Cadillac took ninth after Jack Aitken drove a 3:26.91, and the reigning Le Mans-winning #51 AF Corse Ferrari rounded out the top 10 in the Hypercar category.
TDS Racing tops LMP2, Heart of Racing in LMGT3
In the all-Oreca 07 LMP2 category, the #29 TDS Racing machine was quickest in the hands of Mathias Beche (3:36.827), followed by the #23 United Autosports team with Oliver Jarvis setting a 3:37.436.
Inter Europol’s #43 machine took third after Tom Dillmann completed a 3:37.563, as fellow IMSA Meyer Shank Acura team-mate Pietro Fittipaldi followed in the #22 United Autosports car (3:37.663).
Last year’s Hyperpole sitter Louis Deletraz claimed fifth in the #99 AO by TF ‘Spike the Dragon’ car (3:37.797).
IDEC Sport’s #28 car finished in sixth, owing to Sebastian Alvarez’s 3:38.744 time marginally ahead of Nicky Catsburg’s 3:38.745 in the #45 Algarve Pro Racing car.
Oliver Gray put the #48 VDS Panis Racing car in eighth place (3:38.820), as Bent Viscaal followed in the #11 Proton Competition machine (3:39.155).
Zach Robichon was quickest in LMGT3 for the #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3 Evo (3:55.897) as Riccardo Pera’s #92 Manthey Porsche 911 LMGT3.R followed (3:55.934).
Jack Hawsworth rounded out the top three in the #78 Akkodis ASP Lexus RC F LMGT3 (3:56.024).
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