Le Mans 24h: Ferrari fastest in warm-up ahead of Cadillac

Calado topped the timesheets after the chequered flag fell with a lap of 3m30.113s at the wheel of the #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar he shares with Alessandro Pier Guidi and Antonio Giovinazzi.

That was enough to beat the pole-sitting #50 car, in which Nielsen set a best effort of 3m32.959s, by a comfortable 2.8 seconds.

Best of the rest behind the Ferrari LMHs was the best of the Cadillac V-Series.R LMDhs, the #3 car in which Sebastien Bourdais suffered a dramatic fire in Thursday evening's Hyperpole session.

Bourdais slotted into third at the very end of the session on a 3m33.255s to demote the leading Peugeot 9X8, the #94 car of Nico Muller, to fourth ahead of the two Toyota GR010 HYBRIDs of Mike Conway and Sebastien Buemi.

Porsche's top representative was Andre Lotterer in seventh place aboard the #6 963 LMDh, followed by Paul di Resta in the #93 Peugeot.

Numerous Hypercars did not set flying laps, including the #2 Cadillac, #5 and #75 Porsches, the Action Express-entered #311 Caddy and the customer Jota Porsche.

The quickest LMP2 in ninth overall was the #23 United Autosports ORECA in which Tom Blomqvist posted a 3m39.818s.

Second-fastest was the #34 Inter Europol Competition machine of Fabio Scherer, 1.2 seconds behind, followed by Mathias Beche in the #14 Nielsen Racing car.

Leading the way in GTE Am were a pair of Kessel Racing-entered Ferrari 488 GTEs, with Daniel Serra setting the pace in the CarGuy Racing-branded #57 car ahead of Kei Cozzolino in the #74 machine.

The Garage 56 NASCAR Cup car posted a best of 3m59.403s in the hands of Mike Rockenfeller, behind the fastest six GTE cars.

The 100th anniversary running of the Le Mans 24 Hours is slated to begin at 16:00 local time.

Le Mans 24 Hours - Warm-up results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	51	James Calado Antonio Giovinazzi Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 499P	HYPERCAR	3'30.113
2	50	Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen	Ferrari 499P	HYPERCAR	3'32.959	2.846
3	3	Sébastien Bourdais Scott Dixon Renger van der Zande	Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR	3'33.255	3.142
4	94	Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes Nico Müller	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	3'34.867	4.754
5	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'37.453	7.340
6	8	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'37.616	7.503
7	6	Kevin Estre Andre Lotterer Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR	3'38.025	7.912
8	93	Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	3'39.691	9.578
9	23	Tom Blomqvist Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'39.818	9.705
10	34	Albert Costa Fabio Scherer Jakub Smiechowski	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'41.024	10.911
11	709	Nathanael Berthon Esteban Gutierrez Franck Mailleux	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3'41.087	10.974
12	14	Mathias Beche Ben Hanley Rodrigo Sales	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'41.153	11.040
13	43	Maxime Martin Tom Van Rompuy Ugo de Wilde	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'41.874	11.761
14	41	Rui Andrade Louis Deletraz Robert Kubica	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'42.548	12.435
15	923	Tom Gamble Dries Vanthoor Salih Yoluc	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'42.607	12.494
16	35	Olli Caldwell Andre Negrao Memo Rojas	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'43.135	13.022
17	48	Paul-Loup Chatin Laurents Hörr Paul Lafargue	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'43.534	13.421
18	31	Robin Frijns Sean Gelael Ferdinand Habsburg	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'44.447	14.334
19	65	Tijmen van der Helm Manuel Maldonado Job Van Uitert	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'45.475	15.362
20	63	Mirko Bortolotti Daniil Kvyat Doriane Pin	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'45.603	15.490
21	13	René Rast Ricky Taylor Steven Thomas	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'46.118	16.005
22	39	Giedo van der Garde Roberto Lacorte Patrick Pilet	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'46.487	16.374
23	4	Tom Dillmann Esteban Guerrieri Tristan Vautier	Vanwall Vandervell 680	HYPERCAR	3'46.506	16.393
24	36	Julien Canal Charles Milesi Matthieu Vaxiviere	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'48.229	18.116
25	9	Juan Manuel Correa Filip Ugran Bent Viscaal	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'48.348	18.235
26	10	Gabriel Aubry Ryan Cullen Matthias Kaiser	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'50.462	20.349
27	57	Scott Huffaker Takeshi Kimura Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.038	24.925
28	74	Kei Cozzolino Yorikatsu Tsujiko Naoki Yokomizo	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'55.771	25.658
29	16	Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen Zacharie Robichon	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	3'56.833	26.720
30	54	Francesco Castellacci Thomas Flohr Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'57.245	27.132
31	66	Thomas Neubauer Giacomo Petrobelli Louis Prette	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'58.760	28.647
32	21	Simon Mann Ulysse De Pauw Julien Piguet	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'58.877	28.764
33	24	Jenson Button Jimmie Johnson Mike Rockenfeller	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1	INNOVATIVE CAR	3'59.403	29.290
34	55	Gustav Birch Jens Reno Moller Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	4'00.939	30.826
35	25	Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan Charles Eastwood	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	4'06.169	36.056
36	83	Luis Perez Companc Alessio Rovera Lilou Wadoux	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'09.467	39.354
37	2	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook	Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR
38	5	Dane Cameron Michael Christensen Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR
39	22	Filipe Albuquerque Philip Hanson Frederick Lubin	Oreca 07	LMP2
40	28	Pietro Fittipaldi David Heinemeier Hansson Oliver Rasmussen	Oreca 07	LMP2
41	30	Rene Binder Neel Jani Nicolas Pino	Oreca 07	LMP2
42	32	Anders Fjordbach Mark Kvamme Jan Magnussen	Oreca 07	LMP2
43	33	Nick Catsburg Ben Keating Nicolas Varrone	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE AM
44	37	Alexandre Coigny Malthe Jakobsen Nicolas Lapierre	Oreca 07	LMP2
45	38	Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens Ye Yifei	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR
46	45	James Allen Colin Braun George Kurtz	Oreca 07	LMP2
47	47	Reshad de Gerus Vlad Lomko Simon Pagenaud	Oreca 07	LMP2
48	56	Matteo Cairoli PJ Hyett Gunnar Jeannette	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	3'56.733	26.620
49	60	Matteo Cressoni Alessio Picariello Claudio Schiavoni	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM
50	72	Valentin Hasse-Clot Arnold Robin Maxime Robin	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
51	75	Mathieu Jaminet Felipe Nasr Nick Tandy	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR
52	77	Julien Andlauer Christian Ried Mikkel Pedersen	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM
53	80	Ben Barnicoat Norman Nato François Perrodo	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'44.930	14.817
54	85	Sarah Bovy Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM
55	86	Benjamin Barker Riccardo Pera Michael Wainwright	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM
56	88	Jonas Ried Harry Tincknell Don Yount	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM
57	98	Ian James Daniel Mancinelli Alex Riberas	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
58	100	Andrew Haryanto Chandler Hull Jeff Segal	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM
59	311	Jack Aitken Pipo Derani Alexander Sims	Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR
60	708	Ryan Briscoe Romain Dumas Olivier Pla	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR
61	777	Tomonobu Fujii Satoshi Hoshino Casper Stevenson	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
62	911	Michael Fassbender Richard Lietz Martin Rump	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM
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