While all five Hypercars will automatically qualify for Thursday's Hyperpole, six Hyperpole places were up for grabs in the other classes in the qualifying session which got underway at 19:00 local time. An unfortunate rain shower brought the serious stuff to a premature end.

Reshad de Gerus at the wheel of the #30 Oreca 07-Gibson of Duqueine Team was first out on to the track for the one-hour qualifying session.

Following the first free practice session, two LMP2 prototypes did not take to the track for qualifying: the #10 Oreca 07-Gibson of Vector Sport due to engine failure and the #45 Oreca 07-Gibson of Algarve Pro Racing as a result of damage caused when Steven Thomas went off at the newly named Raccordement Motul.

Three near-simultaneous incidents at the mid-session point brought the session to a halt for a shade over 10 minutes. Irish-German actor Michael Fassbender in the #93 Porsche of Proton Competition went off at the first chicane on the Mulsanne Straight, Nicolas Varrone in the #75 Iron Lynx at Indianopolis and finally Brendon Hartley, the fastest in FP1, headed into the gravel at Mulsanne Corner.

Rain began to fall shortly after the restart that put paid to the chances of those who had not made an ideal start to the session.

In the Hypercar class, the fastest qualifier was the #7 Toyota GR010-Hybrid of Toyota Gazoo Racing in 3:27.247, followed by the two Glickenhaus 007 LMHs and the Alpine A480-Gibson.

Last year’s Le Mans-winning Team WRT’s #31 Oreca 07-Gibson was fastest in LMP2 with Robin Frijns clocking a time of 3:29.898. JOTA’s #38 Oreca 07-Gibson was second fastest.

The #92 Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Porsche GT Team topped LMGTE Pro timesheet, a thousandth of a second under the 3:51 mark. The #63 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R edged out the #91 Porsche for second place in class.

The LMGTE Am class saw the #98  Aston Martin Vantage AMR of Northwest AMR go around fastest in 3:52.599.  The all-female Iron Dames line-up qualified for Hyperpole in fourth place.

The list of 23 qualifiers for Thursday's Hyperpole:

Hypercar

1. Toyota GR010 Hybrid #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing – Mike Conway / Kamui Kobayashi / José Maria López 3’27’’247
2. Glickenhaus 007 LMH #708 Glickenhaus Racing – Olivier Pla / Romain Dumas / Luis Felípe (Pipo) Derani 3’27’355
3. Glickenhaus 007 LMH #709 Glickenhaus Racing – Ryan Briscoe / Richard Westbrook / Franck Mailleux 3’27’’978
4. Alpine A480-Gibson #36 Alpine Elf Team – André Negrão / Nicolas Lapierre / Matthieu Vaxivière 3’29’’656
5. Toyota GR010 Hybrid #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing – Sébastien Buemi / Brendon Hartley / Ryo Hirakawa 3’40’’842

LMP2

1. Oreca 07 – Gibson #31 WRT – Sean Gelael / Robin Frijns / René Rast 3’29’’898
2. Oreca 07 – Gibson #38 Jota – Roberto Gonzáles / António Félix Da Costa / Will Stevens 3’30’’124
3. Oreca 07 – Gibson #41 Real Team WRT – Rui Andrade / Ferdinand Habsburg-Lothringen / Norman Nato 3’30’’440
4. Oreca 07 – Gibson #23 United Autosports USA – Alexander Lynn / Oliver Jarvis / Joshua Pierson 3’30’’568
5. Oreca 07 – Gibson #22 United Autosports USA – Philip Hanson / Filipe Albuquerque / William Owen 3’30’’639
6. Oreca 07 – Gibson #9 Prema Orlen Team – Robert Kubica / Louis Delétraz / Lorenzo Colombo 3’30’’651

LMGTE Pro

1. Porsche 911 RSR-19 #92 Porsche GT Team – Michael Christensen / Kévin Estre / Laurens Vanthoor 3’50’’999
2. Chevrolet Corvette C8.R #63 Corvette Racing – Antonio García / Jordan Taylor / Nicky Catsburg 3’51’’132
3. Porsche 911 RSR-19 #91 Porsche GT Team – Gianmaria Bruni / Richard Lietz / Frédéric Makowiecki 3’51’’382
4. Chevrolet Corvette C8.R #64 Corvette Racing – Tommy Milner / Nick Tandy / Alexander Sims 3’51’491
5. Ferrari 488 GTE Evo #51 AF Corse – Alessandro Pier Guidi / James Calado / Daniel Serra 3’51’502
6. Ferrari 488 GTE Evo #52 AF Corse – Miguel Molina / Antonio Fuoco / Davide Rigon 3’51’’614

LMGTE Am

1. Aston Martin Vantage AMR #98 Northwest AMR – Paul Dalla Lana / David Pittard / Nicki Thiim 3’52’’559
2. Ferrari 488 GTE Evo #57 Kessel Racing – Takeshi Kimura / Frederik Schandorff / Mikkel Jensen 3’53’’489
3. Ferrari 488 GTE Evo #54 AF Corse – Thomas Flohr / Francesco Castellacci / Nicholas Cassidy 3’53’’690
4. Ferrari 488 GTE Evo #85 Iron Dames – Rahel Frey / Michelle Gatting / Sarah Bovy 3’54’’081
5. Porsche 911 RSR-19 #77 Dempsey-Proton Racing – Christian Ried / Sebastian Priaulx / Harry Tincknell 3’54’’224
6. Ferrari 488 GTE Evo #61 AF Corse – Louis Prette / Conrad Grunewald / Vincent Abril 3’54’’316