Le Mans 24h: Alpine splits the Toyotas in FP4

Nicolas Lapierre got within three tenths of Kazuki Nakajima's time-topping Toyota during the fourth period of free practice that followed the Hyperpole qualifying session.

Nakajima set the pace from the beginning of Thursday evening's night session in the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid, ending up on a 3m27.994s.

Lapierre posted an improvement with 40 minutes to go, getting down to a 3m28.280s aboard the Alpine A480. Pole winner Kamui Kobayashi improved to a 3m29.567s late in the session but remained third in the #7 Toyota.

Ryan Briscoe ended up fastest of the two Glickenhaus 007 LMHs with a 3m30.309s.

Franco Colapinto took LMP2 honours in the G-Drive Racing's lead entry. The Argentinian took the top spot with 3m31.414s set early in the session aboard his Aurus-badged Oreca 07-Gibson.

That put him nearly half a second up on Job van Uitert's 3m31.862sin the TDS-run Racing Team Nederland Oreca.

Filipe Albuquerque claimed third spot for United Autosports ahead of Gabriel Aubry's Panis Racing-run PR1/Mathiasen Oreca.

#79 Weathertech Racing Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE Pro, Cooper MacNeil, Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor

Photo by: Paul Foster

WeatherTech Porsche heads GTE Pro

Laurens Vanthoor, older brother of class pole winner Dries, led the way in GTE Pro for the privateer WeatherTech Racing Porsche squad.

The Belgian's 3m48.246s aboard the Proton-run WeatherTech Porsche 911 RSR-19 put him a second clear of Gianmaria Bruni in the only factory Porsche to take part in the session.

Bruni's 3m49.334s had leapfrogged him to the top of the times ahead of the two Chevrolet Corvette C8.Rs halfway through the session. Antonio Garcia ended up third with a 3m49.406s ahead of Alexander Sims, who was just behind on 3m49.684s.

The pole-winning HubAuto Porsche claimed fifth in Maxime Martin's hands ahead of the two AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evos.

GTE Am honours went to the AF Ferrari of Nicklas Nielsen, who was just over a tenth up on Optimum-run Inception Racing Ferrari in Ben Barnicoat's hands.

The session was halted 15 minutes before its two-hour duration was complete when Ollie Millroy put the Inception Ferrari in the barriers at the Ford Chicane.

Fifty-eight of the 62 cars entered for the race took part in FP4. Those missing included the #92 factory Porsche crashed by Kevin Estre during Hyperpole qualifying.

Track action resumes at Le Mans at 1130 local time with the 15-minute warm-up session ahead of the 1600 race start of the 89th edition of the 24 Hours.

Le Mans 24 Hours - FP4 results

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	8	Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Brendon Hartley	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'27.994
2	36	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR	3'28.280	0.286
3	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'29.567	1.573
4	709	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Romain Dumas	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3'30.309	2.315
5	26	Roman Rusinov Franco Colapinto Nyck de Vries	Aurus 01	LMP2	3'31.414	3.420
6	29	Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Job Van Uitert	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'31.862	3.868
7	22	Philip Hanson Fabio Scherer Filipe Albuquerque	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.006	4.012
8	24	Patrick Kelly Gabriel Aubry Simon Trummer	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.209	4.215
9	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.223	4.229
10	41	Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Ye Yifei	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.324	4.330
11	28	Sean Gelael Stoffel Vandoorne Tom Blomqvist	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.377	4.383
12	70	Esteban Garcia Loic Duval Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'32.744	4.750
13	34	Jakub Smiechowski Renger van der Zande Alex Brundle	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.209	5.215
14	31	Robin Frijns Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.238	5.244
15	32	Nico Jamin Jonathan Aberdein Manuel Maldonado	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.366	5.372
16	48	Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.135	6.141
17	82	Ryan Cullen Oliver Jarvis Felipe Nasr	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.310	6.316
18	65	Julien Canal Will Stevens James Allen	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.332	6.338
19	20	Dennis Andersen Ricky Taylor Marco Sorensen	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.366	6.372
20	25	John Falb Roberto Merhi Rui Andrade	Aurus 01	LMP2	3'34.409	6.415
21	49	Anders Fjordbach Jan Magnussen Kevin Magnussen	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.701	6.707
22	23	Paul di Resta Alex Lynn Wayne Boyd	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.899	6.905
23	30	Rene Binder Memo Rojas Tristan Gommendy	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.017	7.023
24	1	Tatiana Calderon Sophia Flörsch Beitske Visser	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.462	7.468
25	21	Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley Juan Pablo Montoya	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.875	7.881
26	708	Pipo Derani Franck Mailleux Olivier Pla	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3'36.178	8.184
27	39	Vincent Capillaire Arnold Robin Maxime Robin	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'36.604	8.610
28	44	Miro Konopka Oliver Webb Matej Konopka	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'43.383	15.389
29	74	James Winslow John Corbett Tom Cloet	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3'44.020	16.026
30	79	Cooper MacNeil Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'48.246	20.252
31	84	Takuma Aoki Nigel Bailly Matthieu Lahaye	Oreca 07	INNOVATIVE CAR	3'48.747	20.753
32	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'49.334	21.340
33	63	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	3'49.603	21.609
34	64	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	3'49.684	21.690
35	72	Dries Vanthoor Alvaro Parente Maxime Martin	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	3'50.886	22.892
36	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Côme Ledogar	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'51.473	23.479
37	83	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'51.561	23.567
38	71	Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'51.692	23.698
39	99	Harry Tincknell Vutthikorn Inthrapuvasak Florian Latorre	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'51.736	23.742
40	18	Andrew Haryanto Alessio Picariello Marco Seefried	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'51.758	23.764
41	66	Thomas Neubauer Rodrigo Sales Jody Fannin	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'51.838	23.844
42	98	Paul Dalla Lana Nicki Thiim Marcos Gomes	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'52.053	24.059
43	46	Dennis Olsen Anders Buchardt Robby Foley	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'52.268	24.274
44	77	Christian Ried Jaxon Evans Matt Campbell	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'52.311	24.317
45	52	Daniel Serra Miguel Molina Sam Bird	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	3'52.821	24.827
46	80	Matteo Cressoni Rino Mastronardi Callum Ilott	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'52.900	24.906
47	57	Takeshi Kimura Scott Andrews Mikkel Jensen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'52.928	24.934
48	47	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'53.299	25.305
49	54	Thomas Flohr Giancarlo Fisichella Francesco Castellacci	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'53.415	25.421
50	388	Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Jeroen Bleekemolen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'53.437	25.443
51	56	Egidio Perfetti Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'53.525	25.531
52	86	Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Tom Gamble	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'53.560	25.566
53	88	Julien Andlauer Dominique Bastien Lance David Arnold	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'54.202	26.208
54	85	Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'54.517	26.523
55	777	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Andrew Watson	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	3'54.808	26.814
56	55	Duncan Cameron David Perel Matthew Griffin	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'54.843	26.849
57	60	Claudio Schiavoni Paolo Ruberti Raffaele Giammaria	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.421	27.427
58	69	Robert Renauer Ralf Bohn Rolf Ineichen	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	3'56.899	28.905
59	17	Dwight Merriman Thomas Laurent Ryan Dalziel	Oreca 07	LMP2
60	33	Ben Keating Dylan Pereira Felipe Fraga	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
61	92	Kevin Estre Neel Jani Michael Christensen	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO
62	95	John Hartshorne Ollie Hancock Ross Gunn	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
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