WEC: Toyota tops Practice 1 at Le Mans

Brendon Hartley led a Toyota one-two in the opening Practice session for the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Hartley clocked a best lap of 3:27.742 around the Circuit de la Sarthe to go quickest aboard the No. 8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid.

Hartley was 0.133 seconds quicker than teammate Kamui Kobayashi’s No. 7 Toyota.

Third late the #2 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac with Earl Bamber at the wheel.

The session ended early due to a crash for Corvette Racing’s Nico Varrone at Tertre Rouge who spun into the tire barriers and wadded up the #33 Corvette.

Pietro Fittipaldi topped LMP2 in the No. 28 JOTA Oreca 07 Gibson, with a time of 3:34.579.

Marco Sorensen wheeling the GMB Motorsport’s No. 55 Aston Martin Vantage AMR set the pace in GTE-Am with a time of 3m55.020s

The first round of qualifying comes later today.

Practice 1 Results

Pos. Class No. Drivers Car Time Behind
1 Hypercar 8 Sebastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley
Ryo Hirakawa
Toyota GR010 – Hybrid 3’27.742 0.000
2 Hypercar 7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota GR010 – Hybrid 3’27.875 0.133
3 Hypercar 2 Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn
Richard Westbrook
Cadillac V-Series.R 3’27.939 0.197
4 Hypercar 75 Mathieu Jaminet
Luiz Felipe Nasr
Nick Tandy
Porsche 963 3’28.150 0.408
Ti5 Hypercar 6 Kevin Estre
Andre Lotterer
Laurens Vanthoor
Porsche 963 3’28.167 0.425
6 Hypercar 94 Loïc Duval
Gustavo Menezes
Nico Müller
Peugeot 9X8 3’28.386 0.644
7 Hypercar 93 Paul di Resta
Mikkel Jensen
Jean-Eric Vergne
Peugeot 9X8 3’28.533 0.791
8 Hypercar 50 Antonio Fuoco
Miguel Molina
Nicklas Nielsen
Ferrari 499P 3’28.708 0.966
9 Hypercar 3 Sebastien Bourdais
Scott Dixon
Renger van der Zande
Cadillac V-Series.R 3’28.799 1.057
10 Hypercar 5 Dane Cameron
Michael Christensen
Frédéric Makowiecki
Porsche 963 3’29.375 1.633
11 Hypercar 709 Nathanaël Berthon
Esteban Gutierrez
Franck Mailleux
Glickenhaus 007 LMH 3’29.617 1.875
12 Hypercar 51 James Calado
Antonio Giovinazzi
Alessandro Pier Guidi
Ferrari 499P 3’29.845 2.103
13 Hypercar 708 Ryan Briscoe
Romain Dumas
Olivier Pla
Glickenhaus 007 LMH 3’29.991 2.249
14 Hypercar 38 Antonio Felix da Costa
Will Stevens
Ye Yifei
Porsche 963 3’30.084 2.342
15 Hypercar 311 Jack Aitken
Luis Felipe Derani
Alexander Sims
Cadillac V-Series.R 3’30.300 2.558
16 LMP2 28 Pietro Fittipaldi
David Heinemeier Hansson
Oliver Rasmussen
Oreca 07 3’34.579 6.837
17 LMP2 37 Alexandre Coigny
Malthe Jakobsen
Nicolas Lapierre
Oreca 07 3’34.611 6.869
18 Hypercar 4 Tom Dillmann
Esteban Guerrieri
Tristan Vautier
Vanwall Vandervell 680 3’34.923 7.181
19 LMP2 63 Mirko Bortolotti
Daniil Kvyat
Doriane Pin
Oreca 07 3’36.451 8.709
20 LMP2 36 Julien Canal
Charles Milesi
Matthieu Vaxivière
Oreca 07 3’36.471 8.729
21 LMP2 34 Albert Costa
Fabio Scherer
Jakub Smiechowski
Oreca 07 3’36.796 9.054
22 LMP2 31 Robin Frijns
Sean Gelael
Ferdinand Habsburg
Oreca 07 3’36.870 9.128
23 LMP2 14 Mathias Beche
Ben Hanley
Rodrigo Sales
Oreca 07 3’36.941 9.199
24 LMP2 923 Tom Gamble
Dries Vanthoor
Salih Yoluc
Oreca 07 3’36.993 9.251
25 LMP2 10 Gabriel Aubry
Ryan Cullen
Matthias Kaiser
Oreca 07 3’37.223 9.481
26 LMP2 30 Rene Binder
Neel Jani
Nicolas Pino
Oreca 07 3’37.305 9.563
27 LMP2 43 Maxime Martin
Tom van Rompuy
Ugo De Wilde
Oreca 07 3’37.656 9.914
28 LMP2 65 Tijmen van der Helm
Manuel Maldonado
Job Van Uitert
Oreca 07 3’38.047 10.305
29 LMP2 47 Reshad de Gerus
Vlad Lomko
Simon Pagenaud
Oreca 07 3’38.141 10.399
30 LMP2 32 Anders Fjordbach
Mark Kvamme
Jan Magnussen
Oreca 07 3’38.229 10.487
31 LMP2 41 Rui Andrade
Louis Deletraz
Robert Kubica
Oreca 07 3’38.234 10.492
32 LMP2 39 Giedo van der Garde
Roberto Lacorte
Patrick Pilet
Oreca 07 3’38.463 10.721
33 LMP2 48 Paul Loup Chatin
Laurents Hörr
Paul Lafargue
Oreca 07 3’38.767 11.025
34 LMP2 80 Ben Barnicoat
Norman Nato
François Perrodo
Oreca 07 3’38.878 11.136
35 LMP2 13 René Rast
Ricky Taylor
Steven Thomas
Oreca 07 3’38.898 11.156
36 LMP2 9 Juan Manuel Correa
Filip Ugran
Bent Viscaal
Oreca 07 3’39.266 11.524
37 LMP2 23 Tom Blomqvist
Oliver Jarvis
Josh Pierson
Oreca 07 3’39.299 11.557
38 LMP2 35 Olli Caldwell
André Negrão
Memo Rojas
Oreca 07 3’40.411 12.669
39 LMP2 45 James Allen
Colin Braun
George Kurtz
Oreca 07 3’40.817 13.075
40 LMP2 22 Filipe Albuquerque
Philip Hanson
Frederick Lubin
Oreca 07 3’41.249 13.507
41 INNOVATIVE CAR 24 Jenson Button
Jimmie Johnson
Mike Rockenfeller
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 3’49.475 21.733
42 LMGTE AM 55 Gustav Birch
Jens Reno Møller
Marco Sørensen
Aston Martin Vantage AMR 3’55.020 27.278
43 LMGTE AM 86 Ben Barker
Riccardo Pera
Michael Wainwright
Porsche 911 RSR – 19 3’55.330 27.588
44 LMGTE AM 72 Valentin Hasse-Clot
Arnold Robin
Maxime Robin
Aston Martin Vantage AMR 3’55.506 27.764
45 LMGTE AM 16 Ryan Hardwick
Jan Heylen
Zacharie Robichon
Porsche 911 RSR – 19 3’55.573 27.831
46 LMGTE AM 60 Matteo Cressoni
Alessio Picariello
Claudio Schiavoni
Porsche 911 RSR – 19 3’55.624 27.882
47 LMGTE AM 98 Ian James
Daniel Mancinelli
Alex Riberas
Aston Martin Vantage AMR 3’55.632 27.890
48 LMGTE AM 83 Luis Perez Companc
Alessio Rovera
Lilou Wadoux
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 3’55.806 28.064
49 LMGTE AM 85 Sarah Bovy
Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting
Porsche 911 RSR – 19 3’55.883 28.141
50 LMGTE AM 88 Jonas Ried
Harry Tincknell
Don Yount
Porsche 911 RSR – 19 3’55.972 28.230
51 LMGTE AM 25 Ahmad Al Harthy
Michael Dinan
Charlie Eastwood
Aston Martin Vantage AMR 3’56.038 28.296
52 LMGTE AM 56 Matteo Cairoli
PJ Hyett
Gunnar Jeannette
Porsche 911 RSR – 19 3’56.073 28.331
53 LMGTE AM 66 Neubauer Thomas
Giacomo Petrobelli
Louis Prette
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 3’56.085 28.343
54 LMGTE AM 911 Michael Fassbender
Richard Lietz
Martin Rump
Porsche 911 RSR – 19 3’56.159 28.417
55 LMGTE AM 74 Kei Cozzolino
Yorikatsu Tsujiko
Naoki Yokomizo
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 3’56.211 28.469
56 LMGTE AM 21 Simon Mann
Ulysse De Pauw
Julien Piguet
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 3’56.283 28.541
57 LMGTE AM 77 Julien Andlauer
Christian Ried
Mikkel Pedersen
Porsche 911 RSR – 19 3’56.457 28.715
58 LMGTE AM 57 Scott Huffaker
Takeshi Kimura
Daniel Serra
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 3’56.477 28.735
59 LMGTE AM 54 Francesco Castellacci
Thomas Flohr
Davide Rigon
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 3’56.548 28.806
60 LMGTE AM 33 Nicky Catsburg
Ben Keating
Nicolas Varrone
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R 3’56.552 28.810
61 LMGTE AM 777 Tomonobu Fujii
Satoshi Hoshino
Casper Stevenson
Aston Martin Vantage AMR 3’56.961 29.219
62 LMGTE AM 100 Andrew Haryanto
Chandler Hull
Jeffrey Segal
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO 4’00.446 32.704