Neel Jani and Andre Lotterer in the #1 919 Hybrid finished with a 1m54.097s average to end up nearly six tenths of a second faster than the #7 Toyota of Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi.

Jani trailed Stephane Sarrazin's low-downforce Toyota TS050 Hybrid after the first runs with a 1m53.658s, which Lotterer followed up on with a 1m54.439s.

Conway posted a 1m53.911s to the put his high-downforce Toyota third after the first runs, before Kobayashi lost his first lap when Dominik Kraihamer spun in the ByKolles CLM privateer LMP1 entry exiting the Bus Stop chicane.

The Japanese driver could only manage a 1m55.476s on his second lap on his tyres, which gave them a 1m54.693s average.

Nicolas Lapierre, who took over the #9 Toyota from Sarrazin, lost a lap to a track-limits violation and then put in 1m55.745s after a visit to the pits to haul the car back to third with a 1m54.701s average.

Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi took fourth on a 1m54.907s average, while Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard were a further half a second behind in fifth on a 1m55.440s.

The G-Drive Racing squad took a second consecutive LMP2 pole with Alex Lynn and Pierre Thiriet.

They ended up with a 2m02.601s average aboard their Oreca-Gibson to pip Signatech Alpine duo Gustavo Menezes and Matt Rao by just two hundredths.

The second Signatech car was third-fastest, just 0.005s ahead of the best of the Manor cars driven by Jean-Eric Vergne and Tor Graves.

Manor's second entry will start from the back of the grid after Vitaly Petrov hit the barriers at Turn 9, bringing out the red flags.

Ferrari beats Ford in GT

Ferrari claimed GTE Pro pole position with the factory AF Corse-run car driven by Davide Rigon and Sam Bird.

Rigon claimed the fastest time of the session during the first runs aboard the #71 Ferrari 488 GTE, before Bird emerged fastest of the second group of drivers.

He posted a 2m15.114s before improving to a 2m15.096s on his second lap on a new set of tyres, which gave the AF duo an average of 2m15.017s.

That put them almost exactly four tenths up on the Ganassi Ford GT qualified by Olivier Pla and Stefan Mucke, who took a 2m15.418s average.

Pla had trailed Andy Priaulx by just under four hundredths in the first runs, but Mucke ended up three tenths up on Harry Tincknell to reverse the positions.

The second AF Ferrari shared by James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi took fourth ahead of the two factory Porsche 911 RSRs.

GTE Am qualifying honours went to the Aston Martin Vantage GTE shared by Paul Dalla Lana and Pedro Lamy.

P1/P2 results:

Pos.	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	1	Andre Lotterer Neel Jani Nick Tandy	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'54.097
2	7	Kamui Kobayashi Mike Conway	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'54.693	0.596
3	9	Stéphane Sarrazin Nicolas Lapierre Yuji Kunimoto	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'54.701	0.604
4	8	Anthony Davidson Kazuki Nakajima Sébastien Buemi	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'54.907	0.810
5	2	Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley Earl Bamber	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'55.440	1.343
6	26	Roman Rusinov Pierre Thiriet Alex Lynn	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'02.601	8.504
7	36	Romain Dumas Gustavo Menezes Matt Rao	Alpine A470	LMP2	2'02.624	8.527
8	35	Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues Andre Negrao	Alpine A470	LMP2	2'02.629	8.532
9	24	Jean-Eric Vergne Jonathan Hirschi Tor Graves	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'02.632	8.535
10	13	Nelson Piquet Jr. David Heinemeier Hansson Mathias Beche	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'03.619	9.522
11	4	Oliver Webb Dominik Kraihamer James Rossiter	ENSO CLM P1/01	LMP1	2'03.827	9.730
12	34	Karun Chandhok Nigel Moore Philip Hanson	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	2'04.176	10.079
13	28	François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Matthieu Vaxivière	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.058	10.961
14	37	David Cheng Tristan Gommendy Alex Brundle	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.421	11.324
15	31	Bruno Senna Julien Canal Nicolas Prost	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.614	11.517
16	38	Oliver Jarvis Ho-Pin Tung Thomas Laurent	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'14.220	20.123

GTE results:

Pos.	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Avg Time	Gap
1	71	Sam Bird Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	2'15.017
2	66	Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla Billy Johnson	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	2'15.418	0.401
3	67	Pipo Derani Harry Tincknell Andy Priaulx	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	2'15.565	0.548
4	51	James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	2'15.765	0.748
5	91	Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	2'16.862	1.845
6	92	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	2'17.010	1.993
7	95	Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim Richie Stanaway	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	2'17.156	2.139
8	97	Darren Turner Jonathan Adam Daniel Serra	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	2'17.640	2.623
9	98	Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE AM	2'18.659	3.642
10	77	Christian Ried Matteo Cairoli Marvin Dienst	Porsche 911 RSR (991)	LMGTE AM	2'19.065	4.048
11	54	Francesco Castellacci Miguel Molina Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	2'19.658	4.641
12	61	Matt Griffin Mok Weng Sun Keita Sawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	2'20.915	5.898
13	86	Michael Wainwright Ben Barker Nick Foster Jr.	Porsche 911 RSR (991)	LMGTE AM	2'22.120	7.103