Le Mans 24h: Rebellion leads Toyota in fourth practice

Gustavo Menezes posted a 3m21.132s aboard the #1 Rebellion R-13 in the last 15 minutes of the one-hour session to end up half a second quicker than Mike Conway in the quickest of the two Toyota TS050 Hybrids on a 3m21.630s.

The FP4 times were some way off the fastest free practice laps set by both teams on Wednesday, the fastest of which was a 3m17.089s.

All five LMP1 cars are taking part in the half-hour Hyperpole session that follows final practice.

Louis Deletraz took third in the #3 Rebellion with a 3m22.382s, which was just quicker than Brendon Hartley's 3m22.525s in the second of the Toyotas.

The ByKolles team's ENSO CLM P1/01 ended on a 3m29.921s in the hands of Tom Dillmann.

Paul di Resta went quickest in LMP2 for the United Autosports squad late in the session.

His 3m27.185s aboard the #22 Oreca 07 jumped him ahead of Jean-Eric Vergne, who ended up on a 3m28.586s in the G-Drive Racing Oreca.

A 3m29.663s from Antonio Felix da Costa was good enough to for third in the JOTA Sport Oreca, which was bumped from the top six in first qualifying on Thursday and will not take part in the Hyperpole session.

Renger van der Zande was fourth fastest for DragonSpeed with a 3m29.925s set early in the session.

Porsche ended up quickest in GTE Pro courtesy of a 3m51.985s from Michael Christensen aboard the #92 Porsche 911 RSR-19.

That put him just under half a second up on the #71 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo, which posted a 3m52.482s in the hands of Sam Bird. The second of the two factory Ferrari was third in the hands of Alessandro Pier Guidi on 3m52.684s.

Alex Lynn set the fastest Aston Martin time with a 3m52.875s aboard the #97 Vantage GTE.

Matteo Cairoli was fastest in GTE Am in his Project 1 Porsche on a 3m53.884s. That put him just five hundredths up on Come Ledogar in the Luzich Racing Ferrari.

Hyperpole for the top six cars in each class in Thursday's first qualifying session begins at 11:30am local time.

Session results:

Pos.	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap	Int
1	1	Bruno Senna  Norman Nato  Gustavo Menezes	Rebellion R13	LMP1	3'21.132
2	7	Mike Conway  Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	3'21.630	0.498	0.498
3	3	Romain Dumas  Nathanael Berthon  Louis Deletraz	Rebellion R13	LMP1	3'22.382	1.250	0.752
4	8	Sebastien Buemi  Kazuki Nakajima  Brendon Hartley	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	3'22.525	1.393	0.143
5	22	Philip Hanson  Filipe Albuquerque  Paul di Resta	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'27.185	6.053	4.660
6	26	Roman Rusinov  Jean-Eric Vergne  Mikkel Jensen	Aurus 01	LMP2	3'28.586	7.454	1.401
7	38	Anthony Davidson  Antonio Felix da Costa  Roberto Gonzalez	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'29.663	8.531	1.077
8	4	Tom Dillmann  Bruno Spengler  Oliver Webb	ENSO CLM P1/01	LMP1	3'29.921	8.789	0.258
9	27	Henrik Hedman  Ben Hanley  Renger van der Zande	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'29.925	8.793	0.004
10	21	Juan Pablo Montoya  Timothe Buret  Memo Rojas	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'30.123	8.991	0.198
11	42	Nicolas Lapierre  Antonin Borga  Alexandre Coigny	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'30.728	9.596	0.605
12	16	Ryan Cullen  Oliver Jarvis  Nick Tandy	Aurus 01	LMP2	3'31.060	9.928	0.332
13	36	Andre Negrao  Pierre Ragues  Thomas Laurent	Alpine A470	LMP2	3'31.451	10.319	0.391
14	33	Kenta Yamashita  Mark Patterson  Anders Fjordbach	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'31.457	10.325	0.006
15	32	William Owen  Alex Brundle  Job van Uitert	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'31.517	10.385	0.060
16	31	Nico Jamin  Julien Canal  Matthieu Vaxiviere	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'31.648	10.516	0.131
17	47	Roberto Lacorte  Andrea Belicchi  Giorgio Sernagiotto	Dallara P217	LMP2	3'31.983	10.851	0.335
18	25	John Falb  Simon Trummer  Matt McMurry	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.215	11.083	0.232
19	37	Ho-Pin Tung  Gabriel Aubry  Will Stevens	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.804	11.672	0.589
20	17	Patrick Pilet  Kyle Tilley  Jonathan Kennard	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.025	12.893	1.221
21	30	Jonathan Hirschi  Konstantin Tereshchenko  Tristan Gommendy	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.279	13.147	0.254
22	11	Adrien Tambay  Erik Maris  Christophe d'Ansembourg	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3'34.956	13.824	0.677
23	39	James Allen  Vincent Capillaire  Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.588	14.456	0.632
24	34	Jakub Smiechowski  Rene Binder  Matevos Isaakyan	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3'35.732	14.600	0.144
25	50	Tatiana Calderon  Sophia Floersch  Beitske Visser	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.995	14.863	0.263
26	28	Paul Lafargue  Paul Loup Chatin  Richard Bradley	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'40.062	18.930	4.067
27	29	Frits van Eerd  Giedo van der Garde  Nyck de Vries	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'41.409	20.277	1.347
28	24	Garett Grist  Alex Kapadia  Anthony Wells	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'46.153	25.021	4.744
29	35	Nobuya Yamanaka  Nick Foster  Roberto Merhi	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3'48.147	27.015	1.994
30	92	Michael Christensen  Kevin Estre  Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	3'51.985	30.853	3.838
31	71	Davide Rigon  Miguel Molina  Sam Bird	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'52.482	31.350	0.497
32	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi  James Calado  Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'52.684	31.552	0.202
33	97	Maxime Martin  Alex Lynn  Harry Tincknell	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE PRO	3'52.875	31.743	0.191
34	82	Olivier Pla  Sebastien Bourdais  Jules Gounon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'53.274	32.142	0.399
35	91	Gianmaria Bruni  Richard Lietz  Frederic Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	3'53.342	32.210	0.068
36	95	Nicki Thiim  Marco Sorensen  Richard Westbrook	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE PRO	3'53.742	32.610	0.400
37	56	Egidio Perfetti  Larry ten Voorde  Matteo Cairoli	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'53.884	32.752	0.142
38	61	Francesco Piovanetti  Oswaldo Negri Jr  Come Ledogar	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'53.937	32.805	0.053
39	63	Cooper MacNeil  Toni Vilander  Jeffrey Segal	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'54.044	32.912	0.107
40	90	Salih Yoluc  Charlie Eastwood  Jonathan Adam	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'54.668	33.536	0.624
41	83	François Perrodo  Emmanuel Collard  Nicklas Nielsen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.250	34.118	0.582
42	98	Paul Dalla Lana  Ross Gunn  Augusto Farfus	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'55.254	34.122	0.004
43	75	Rino Mastronardi  Matteo Cressoni  Andrea Piccini	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.682	34.550	0.428
44	57	Ben Keating  Felipe Fraga  Jeroen Bleekemolen	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'56.088	34.956	0.406
45	54	Thomas Flohr  Francesco Castellacci  Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.365	35.233	0.277
46	55	Duncan Cameron  Aaron Scott  Matt Griffin	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'57.047	35.915	0.682
47	78	Horst Felbermayr Jr.  Michele Beretta  Max van Splunteren	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'57.852	36.720	0.805
48	66	Richard Heistand  Max Root  Jan Magnussen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'58.278	37.146	0.426
49	60	Claudio Schiavoni  Sergio Pianezzola  Paolo Ruberti	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'59.334	38.202	1.056
50	77	Christian Ried  Riccardo Pera  Matt Campbell	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'59.548	38.416	0.214
51	89	Philippe Haezebrouck  Julien Piguet  Andreas Laskaratos	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	4'00.416	39.284	0.868
52	86	Michael Wainwright  Ben Barker  Andrew Watson	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	4'01.733	40.601	1.317
53	70	Takeshi Kimura  Vincent Abril  Kei Cozzolino	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'02.331	41.199	0.598
54	85	Manuela Gostner  Rahel Frey  Michelle Gatting	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'03.781	42.649	1.450
55	52	Christoph Ulrich  Steffen Gorig  Alexander West	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'08.479	47.347	4.698
56	88	Thomas Preining  Dominique Bastien  Adrien de Leener	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	4'09.767	48.635	1.288
57	72	Morris Chen  Tom Blomqvist  Marcos Gomes	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'12.693	51.561	2.926
58	62	Bonamy Grimes  Johnny Mowlem  Charles Hollings	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	no time
59	99	Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak  Lucas Legeret  Julien Andlauer	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	no time