Kazuki Nakajima topped the times in the Friday afternoon session in the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid on a 1m38.210s, which put him 2.290s ahead of third-placed Porsche driver Earl Bamber. 

Nakajima and Kamui Kobayashi in the #7 Toyota set the times that put them one-two in the timesheets in the opening minutes of the session lasting one and a half hours.

Kobayashi posted a 1m38.444s to end up 0.234s behind the sister car. 

Bamber set a 1m40.500s in the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid, while Andre Lotterer was 0.7s back on a 1m41.201s in the #1 car. 

The ByKolles ENSO CLM P1/01 improved on its morning time by nearly three seconds to end up on a 1m45.512s, set by James Rossiter - although this was still behind two LMP2 cars.

Alex Lynn led the way in LMP2 aboard the #26 G-Drive Racing Oreca on a 1m44.874s, which put him just over a tenth clear of Nicolas Lapierre in the #36 Signatech Alpine.

Third place was taken by early class pacesetter Mathias Beche in the best of the Anglo-Swiss Rebellion team's Orecas.

Porsche takes charge in GTE 

Porsche held sway in GTE Pro courtesy of a 1m57.765s recorded by Kevin Estre in the #92 911 RSR.

The Frenchman ended up just under two tenths up on the best of factory Aston Martin Vantage GTEs, the #97 in Jonny Adam's hands, with the sister #95 car in third ahead of the two Ganassi-run Ford GTs.

Ben Barker was quickest in GTE Am for the Gulf Racing Porsche squad.  

Practice results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	8	Anthony Davidson   Kazuki Nakajima   Sébastien Buemi	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'38.210
2	7	Kamui Kobayashi   Mike Conway   Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'38.444	0.234
3	2	Timo Bernhard   Brendon Hartley   Earl Bamber	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'40.500	2.290
4	1	Andre Lotterer   Neel Jani   Nick Tandy	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'41.201	2.991
5	26	Roman Rusinov    Pierre Thiriet   Alex Lynn	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'44.874	6.664
6	36	Nicolas Lapierre   Gustavo Menezes   Matt Rao	Alpine A470	LMP2	1'45.006	6.796
7	4	Oliver Webb   Dominik Kraihamer   James Rossiter	ENSO CLM P1/01	LMP1	1'45.512	7.302
8	13	Nelson Piquet Jr.   David Heinemeier Hansson   Mathias Beche	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'45.622	7.412
9	37	David Cheng   Tristan Gommendy   Alex Brundle	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'45.907	7.697
10	28	François Perrodo   Emmanuel Collard   Matthieu Vaxivière	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'46.585	8.375
11	31	Bruno Senna   Julien Canal   Nicolas Prost	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'47.256	9.046
12	38	Oliver Jarvis   Ho-Pin Tung   Thomas Laurent	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'47.564	9.354
13	24	Jean-Eric Vergne   Jonathan Hirschi   Tor Graves	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'47.954	9.744
14	25	Vitaly Petrov   Simon Trummer   Roberto Gonzalez	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'48.076	9.866
15	92	Michael Christensen   Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	1'57.765	19.555
16	97	Darren Turner   Jonathan Adam   Daniel Serra	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	1'57.957	19.747
17	95	Marco Sorensen   Nicki Thiim   Richie Stanaway	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	1'57.981	19.771
18	67	Pipo Derani   Harry Tincknell   Andy Priaulx	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	1'58.114	19.904
19	66	Stefan Mücke   Olivier Pla   Billy Johnson	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	1'58.189	19.979
20	51	James Calado   Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	1'58.535	20.325
21	91	Richard Lietz   Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	1'58.955	20.745
22	71	Sam Bird   Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	1'59.815	21.605
23	86	Michael Wainwright   Ben Barker   Nick Foster	Porsche 911 RSR (991)	LMGTE AM	1'59.991	21.781
24	54	Francesco Castellacci   Miguel Molina   Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	2'00.380	22.170
25	77	Christian Ried   Matteo Cairoli   Marvin Dienst	Porsche 911 RSR (991)	LMGTE AM	2'00.421	22.211
26	98	Pedro Lamy   Paul Dalla Lana   Mathias Lauda	Aston Martin Vantage V8	LMGTE AM	2:00.437	22.227
27	61	Matt Griffin   Mok Weng Sun   Keita Sawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	2'00.509	22.299