Le Mans 24h: Toyota dominant in final practice

The Japanese marque's pair of GR010 Hybrids, which swept the front row in Hyperpole qualifying earlier, were untouchable in Thursday evening's two-hour night session, the final on-track running before Saturday morning warm-up.

Jose Maria Lopez set the pace aboard the #7 Toyota with a best lap of 3m28.322s, 0.362s faster than Sebastien Buemi in the sister #8 machine.

Best of the rest was the #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH in which Pipo Derani set a late improvement of 3m30.141s to get within two seconds of Lopez's benchmark.

Richard Westbrook posted a 3m30.822s, exactly 2.5s off the pace, to go fourth in the sister #709 Glickenhaus, just ahead of the Alpine A480-Gibson grandfathered LMP1 car driven by Andre Negrao.

United Autosports led the way in the LMP2 class courtesy of a 3m32.226s effort from Alex Lynn in the #23 Oreca 07-Gibson.

Second in class was Job van Uitert for Panis Racing, ahead of Jonathan Aberdein in the best of the JOTA entries, the #28 car.

The order in the GTE Pro class virtually mirrored that of Hyperpole, as the two Corvette C8.Rs locked out the top two spots in class, albeit with the #63 car of Nicky Catsburg besting the pole-winning #64 machine of Tommy Milner.

Porsche's pair of works 911 RSR-19s were next, Gianmaria Bruni delivering the German marque's best laptime in the #91 car, followed by the two factory Ferrari 488 GTE Evos.

Harry Tincknell was the pacesetter in the GTE Am class with a best effort of 3m55.067s at the wheel of the #77 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche.

The two-hour night session ran largely without incident, although Graff driver David Droux did suffer an off on his out lap at Mulsanne corner on the car's first lap since Sebastien Page's incident in third practice.

Late in the session, the GTE Am pole-winning AF Corse Ferrari also ground to a halt on the start/finish straight.

TDS Racing's Oreca did not appear in the session following Philippe Cimadomo's crash at Corvette Curve in FP3.

The next on-track action at Le Mans is the warm-up session on Saturday morning at 10.30am local time, ahead of the start of the race at 4pm.

2022 Le Mans 24 Hours - fourth practice results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'28.322
2	8	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'28.684	0.362
3	708	Olivier Pla Romain Dumas Pipo Derani	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3'30.141	1.819
4	709	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Franck Mailleux	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3'30.822	2.500
5	36	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR	3'31.039	2.717
6	23	Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.226	3.904
7	65	Julien Canal Nico Jamin Job Van Uitert	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.422	4.100
8	28	Oliver Rasmussen Edward Jones Jonathan Aberdein	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.588	4.266
9	9	Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.269	4.947
10	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.481	5.159
11	22	Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.546	5.224
12	10	Nico Müller Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.559	5.237
13	37	Ye Yifei Ricky Taylor Niklas Krütten	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.674	5.352
14	32	Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Dries Vanthoor	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.681	5.359
15	47	Sophia Flörsch John Falb Jack Aitken	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.689	5.367
16	43	David Heinemeier Hansson Fabio Scherer Pietro Fittipaldi	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.701	5.379
17	41	Rui Andrade Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.804	5.482
18	45	Steven Thomas James Allen Rene Binder	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.986	5.664
19	83	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.080	5.758
20	31	Sean Gelael Robin Frijns René Rast	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.187	5.865
21	44	Miro Konopka Bent Viscaal Tristan Vautier	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.393	6.071
22	35	Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.588	6.266
23	5	Dane Cameron Emmanuel Collard Felipe Nasr	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.603	6.281
24	30	Richard Bradley Guillermo Rojas Reshad de Gerus	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.208	6.886
25	48	Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.566	7.244
26	34	Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.927	7.605
27	1	Lilou Wadoux Sébastien Ogier Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'36.128	7.806
28	24	Rodrigo Sales Matthew Bell Ben Hanley	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'37.822	9.500
29	3	Laurents Hörr Jean Glorieux Alexandre Cougnaud	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'38.232	9.910
30	39	Eric Trouillet Sebastien Page David Droux	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'40.740	12.418
31	27	Cresp Christophe Michael Jensen Steven Palette	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3'51.009	22.687
32	63	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	3'52.710	24.388
33	64	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	3'52.731	24.409
34	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'53.123	24.801
35	92	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'53.277	24.955
36	52	Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'53.682	25.360
37	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'53.888	25.566
38	77	Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'55.067	26.745
39	88	Fred Poordad Maxwell Root Jan Heylen	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'55.265	26.943
40	61	Louis Prette Conrad Grunewald Vincent Abril	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.323	27.001
41	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.345	27.023
42	57	Takeshi Kimura Frederik Schandorff Mikkel Jensen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.446	27.124
43	99	Andrew Haryanto Alessio Picariello Martin Rump	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'55.510	27.188
44	86	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'55.626	27.304
45	60	Claudio Schiavoni Alessandro Balzan Raffaele Giammaria	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.728	27.406
46	80	Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella Richard Heistand	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.899	27.577
47	79	Cooper MacNeil Julien Andlauer Thomas Merrill	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'56.039	27.717
48	56	Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'56.182	27.860
49	93	Michael Fassbender Matt Campbell Zacharie Robichon	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'56.219	27.897
50	59	Alexander West Côme Ledogar Marvin Klein	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.237	27.915
51	85	Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.303	27.981
52	75	Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Nicolas Varrone	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.393	28.071
53	71	Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.696	28.374
54	55	Duncan Cameron Matthew Griffin David Perel	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.855	28.533
55	21	Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.936	28.614
56	66	Renger van der Zande Mark Kvamme Jason Hart	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'57.169	28.847
57	98	Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'58.959	30.637
58	13	Philippe Cimadomo Mathias Beche Tijmen van der Helm	Oreca 07	LMP2
59	33	Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
60	46	Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM
61	74	Felipe Fraga Sam Bird Shane van Gisbergen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO
62	777	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
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