Toyota have a provisional front row lockout as the third and final qualifying session for the 24 Hours of Le Mans reaches its halfway point.
The #7 Toyota of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez holds pole position with a time of 03:15:497, nearly half a second ahead of the #8 of Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Fernando Alonso. The battle for best of the rest is currently being won by the #17 SMP Racing car of Stephane Sarrazin, Egor Orudzhev and Sergey Sirotkin.
In LMP2, Graff have surprisingly climbed to the top of the timing sheets with a time of 03:25:073 ahead of TDS Racing and Dragonspeed, who were ahead after the end of the second session.
Aston Martin Racing have shown surprising pace in the third session so far, with Marco Sorensen setting a 03:48:000 to put Aston Martin on provisional pole ahead of the #67 Ford of Andy Priaulx, Harry Tincknell and Jonathan Bomarito, with the #93 Porsche of Earl Bamber third.
BMW suffered bad luck during the third session, with Nick Catsburg crashing the #81 M8 GTE early on, ending in the gravel at the Ford Chicanes.
In GTE Am, Dempsey-Proton are well on their way to a front row lockout with the #88 leading the #77. Rodrigo Baptista holds third in the JMW Motorsport Ferrari 488 GTE, while the session was interrupted around the halfway mark when Mathias Lauda crashed his #98 Aston Martin Vantage GTE, bringing out a red flag.
