Le Mans 24h: Toyota leads Alpine by 0.086s in tight FP1

Jose Maria Lopez jumped to the head of the times aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid with 30 minutes of the three-hour session left on the clock of the opening session for this weekend's double-points round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

The Argentinian's time of 3m29.309s edged out the Alpine A480-Gibson in which Andre Negrao had posted a 3m29.395s just over 40 minutes earlier.

Negrao's best lap on Wednesday afternoon was just one thousandth of a second quicker than Kazuki Nakajima's mark in the #8 Toyota.

The Japanese driver set the pace from the beginning, ending up on a 3m29.396s before the first half hour was over.

The best of the LMP2s, the United Autosports Oreca 07 driven by Phil Hanson, was only a further tenth off the ultimate pace in fourth position overall.

Hanson's 3m29.441s gave him a margin of over half over the G-Drive Aurus-badged Oreca that Nyck de Vries put fifth overall with a 3m30.094s right at the end of the session.

The fastest two cars in P2s ended up ahead of both Glickenhaus Le Mans Hypercars.

Glickenhaus failed to get within a second of Olivier Pla's time-topping mark in the official Le Mans test day on Sunday.

Richard Westbrook ended up sixth overall in the #709 Glickenhaus 007 LMH on a 3m30.216s and Pla seventh with a 3m30.325s in #708.

Tom Blomqvist claimed third in P2 with a 3m30.629s set late on in the best of the JOTA Oreca, just edging out Louis Deletraz's 3m30.724s in the #41 WRT Oreca.

Paul-Loup Chatin took fifth in class for IDEC Sport and Ben Hanley sixth for DragonSpeed.

Ferrari tops GTE Pro

Ferrari led the way in GTE Pro, Daniel Serra improving the #52 AF Corse-run 488 GTE Evo's best to a 3m50.123s as the session neared an end.

That time, seven tenths up on last year's class pole, gave him the top spot by just four hundredths over Nick Tandy, who posted a 3m50.163s in the dying seconds aboard the best of the Chevrolet Corvette C8.Rs.

Gianmaria Bruni was third quickest in the #92 Manthey-run Porsche 911 RSR-19 on 3m50.488s, while James Calado took fourth in the second of the factory Ferraris with a 3m50.611s.

Laurens Vanthoor took fifth in the first of the customer Porsches racing in GTE Pro this year, the Proton-run WeatherTech Racing entry.

Project 1 Porsche driver Matteo Cairoli end up fastest in GTE Am with a 3m50.193s, a time that bettered the GTE Pro pack until the closing minutes.

It still stood as the third best GTE time at the end of the session and gave him a margin of over a second over the GR Racing Porsche in second position in class.

The session was interrupted by two red flags.

The first stoppage came with little more than a minute on the clock when Marco Sorensen tagged the barriers leaving the pits in the #20 High Class Racing Oreca.

The second in the final hour resulted from a coming together between Antonio Felix da Costa's JOTA Oreca and the AF Corse-run GTE Am class Ferrari 488 GTE Evo driven by Antonio Fuoco.

First qualifying for the 89th edition of Le Mans starts at 7pm local time. 

Le Mans 24 Hours - FP1 results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'29.309
2	36	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR	3'29.395	0.086
3	8	Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Brendon Hartley	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'29.396	0.087
4	22	Philip Hanson Fabio Scherer Filipe Albuquerque	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'29.441	0.132
5	26	Roman Rusinov Franco Colapinto Nyck de Vries	Aurus 01	LMP2	3'30.094	0.785
6	709	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Romain Dumas	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3'30.216	0.907
7	708	Pipo Derani Franck Mailleux Olivier Pla	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3'30.325	1.016
8	28	Sean Gelael Stoffel Vandoorne Tom Blomqvist	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'30.629	1.320
9	41	Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Ye Yifei	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'30.724	1.415
10	48	Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'30.912	1.603
11	21	Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley Juan Pablo Montoya	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'30.991	1.682
12	70	Esteban Garcia Loic Duval Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'30.996	1.687
13	31	Robin Frijns Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'31.158	1.849
14	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'31.279	1.970
15	25	John Falb Roberto Merhi Rui Andrade	Aurus 01	LMP2	3'31.322	2.013
16	32	Nico Jamin Jonathan Aberdein Manuel Maldonado	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'31.568	2.259
17	30	Rene Binder Guillermo Rojas Tristan Gommendy	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.145	2.836
18	65	Julien Canal Will Stevens James Allen	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.236	2.927
19	29	Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Job Van Uitert	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.428	3.119
20	82	Ryan Cullen Oliver Jarvis Felipe Nasr	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.523	3.214
21	23	Paul di Resta Alex Lynn Wayne Boyd	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.690	3.381
22	20	Dennis Andersen Ricky Taylor Marco Sorensen	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.970	3.661
23	44	Miro Konopka Oliver Webb Matej Konopka	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.052	3.743
24	24	Patrick Kelly Gabriel Aubry Simon Trummer	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.308	3.999
25	49	Anders Fjordbach Jan Magnussen Kevin Magnussen	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.456	4.147
26	34	Jakub Smiechowski Renger van der Zande Alex Brundle	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.491	4.182
27	17	Dwight Merriman Thomas Laurent Ryan Dalziel	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.612	4.303
28	39	Vincent Capillaire Arnold Robin Maxime Robin	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.767	4.458
29	1	Tatiana Calderon Sophia Flörsch Beitske Visser	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.114	4.805
30	84	Takuma Aoki Nigel Bailly Matthieu Lahaye	Oreca 07	INNOVATIVE CAR	3'34.510	5.201
31	74	James Winslow John Corbett Tom Cloet	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3'37.048	7.739
32	52	Daniel Serra Miguel Molina Sam Bird	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'50.123	20.814
33	64	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	3'50.163	20.854
34	56	Egidio Perfetti Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'50.193	20.884
35	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'50.488	21.179
36	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Côme Ledogar	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'50.611	21.302
37	79	Cooper MacNeil Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'50.737	21.428
38	72	Dries Vanthoor Alvaro Parente Maxime Martin	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'51.188	21.879
39	86	Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Tom Gamble	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'51.326	22.017
40	63	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	3'51.330	22.021
41	88	Julien Andlauer Dominique Bastien Lance Arnold	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'51.519	22.210
42	92	Kevin Estre Neel Jani Michael Christensen	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'51.542	22.233
43	18	Andrew Haryanto Alessio Picariello Marco Seefried	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'51.826	22.517
44	57	Takeshi Kimura Scott Andrews Mikkel Jensen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'51.911	22.602
45	33	Ben Keating Dylan Pereira Felipe Fraga	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'52.224	22.915
46	98	Paul Dalla Lana Nicki Thiim Marcos Gomes	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'52.329	23.020
47	80	Matteo Cressoni Rino Mastronardi Callum Ilott	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'52.349	23.040
48	95	John Hartshorne Ollie Hancock Ross Gunn	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'52.488	23.179
49	47	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'52.528	23.219
50	83	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'52.598	23.289
51	55	Duncan Cameron David Perel Matthew Griffin	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'52.809	23.500
52	54	Thomas Flohr Giancarlo Fisichella Francesco Castellacci	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'52.838	23.529
53	85	Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'52.873	23.564
54	777	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Andrew Watson	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'52.880	23.571
55	60	Claudio Schiavoni Paolo Ruberti Raffaele Giammaria	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'53.042	23.733
56	71	Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'53.076	23.767
57	77	Christian Ried Jaxon Evans Matt Campbell	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'53.200	23.891
58	388	Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Jeroen Bleekemolen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'53.222	23.913
59	99	Harry Tincknell Vuttikhorn Inthraphuvasak Florian Latorre	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'53.915	24.606
60	46	Dennis Olsen Anders Buchardt Robert Foley	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'54.970	25.661
61	69	Robert Renauer Ralf Bohn Rolf Ineichen	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'55.223	25.914
62	66	Thomas Neubauer Rodrigo Sales Jody Fannin	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.682	26.373
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