Final preparations for this evening’s Hyperpole session are carried out as Toyota place 1-2 but second-placed No.8 Toyota suffers a technical glitch

The LMGTE Pro category sees the No.64 Corvette lead the way, and in LMP2 No.22 United Autosports USA car heads the times. Session red-flagged at mid-way point after an accident for TDS Racing x Vaillante LMP2 entry.

In the LMGTE Am class, the No.46 Team Project 1 Porsche heads the 23-car class.

Hypercar 

• No.7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid Hypercar driven by Kamui Kobayashi sets the best FP3 time with a 3m26.796s Hyperpole simulation lap, which is the fastest lap of the 90th running of Le Mans so far
• The No.8 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010-Hybrid Hypercar is second with Brendon Hartley setting the fastest lap on 3m27.115s
• But No.8 stops on track and slowly returns to pits after an electrical issue stops Ryo Hirakawa. The car returns to the action
• Glickenhaus Racing is third as No.708 car laps in 3m27.466s with Olivier Pla at the wheel
• No.709 Glickenhaus 007LMH car places fourth ahead of Alpine ELF Team car which gets last BoP break ahead of FP3 and Hyperpole
• But Alpine has to crawl back to the pit after an issue in the final 25 minutes of the session

LMGTE Pro

• Corvette Racing sets the pace in LMGTE Pro with Nick Tandy in No.64 car sets a 3m52.307s lap
• No.91 Porsche GT Team is second as Richard Lietz sets the best time of 3m52.787s
• No.63 Chevrolet Corvette driven by Jordan Taylor, Antonio Garcia, and Nicky Catsburg peaks on a 3m52.824s, ensuring Corvette Racing first and third.
• Michael Christensen sets the best time in No.92 Porsche 911 RSR-19 to place fourth
• AF Corse are fifth and sixth with its pair of Ferrari 488 GTE Evo’s as Miguel Molina and James Calado set times
• Riley Motorsports Ferrari 488 GTE Evo spends most of the session in pits with an unspecified technical issue and is seventh

LMP2

• No.31 WRT car of Rene Rast, Robin Frijns and Sean Gelael topped the LMP2 class for the majority of the session but United Autosports claimed a late 1-2 finish
• Filip Albuquerque sets the best time of 3m30.964s in the final three minutes to go P1 in No.22 car
• No.23 sister United Autosports USA car places second with Alex Lynn peaking on a 3m31.025s lap
• The 3m31.030 set by WRT’s Robin Frijns was initially 0.8s ahead of No.23 United Autosports USA car but is demoted to third as Lynn’s time is just 0.005s quicker
• Cool Racing takes fourth as Yifei Yi stops clocks with a time just 0.2s off the second position
• No.38 JOTA Oreca-Gibson is fifth fastest in the ultra-competitive category as a 3m32.151s lap is set by Antonio Felix da Costa
• Norman Nato sets a late time to grab the sixth position in the LMP2 class in Realteam by WRT entry
• No.83 AF Corse car is seventh and also leads the Pro/Am division with Nicklas Nielsen bringing joy to a large Danish fanbase at Le Mans
• Several LMP2 cars hit trouble through incidents, especially the TDS Racing x Vaillante LMP2 entry as Philippe Cimadomo crashes heavily at Porsche Curves
• ARC Bratislava car driven by Miro Konopka and No.47 Algarve Pro Racing car of Jack Aitken collide at Dunlop Chicane in final 10-minutes but both cars continue
• Further incidents from Duqueine and Graf cars cause yellow flag periods during the three hours session

LMGTE Am

• No.46 Team Project 1 Porsche leads the LMGTE Am field with Mikkel Pedersen flies to a 3m54.386s best
• TF Sport second as Henrique Chaves laps just 0.2s off Pedersen’s best
• Third in LMGTE Am class is Hardpoint Motorsport Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Alessio Picariello
• No.98 Northwest AMR Aston Martin Vantage is fourth with David Pittard setting the quickest lap
• No.59  Inception Racing car crashes in final moments of the session as Alexander West damages his Ferrari 488 GTE Evo