Le Mans 24h: Rebellion leads Toyota in fourth practice
Rebellion Racing went fastest in final free practice for the Le Mans 24 Hours as the LMP1 teams prepared for the new Hyperpole qualifying session.
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 |
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