Bourdais posted a 1m34.732s to head the times 15 minutes from the end of the one-hour session, eclipsing his 1m34.949s that put the #01 Cadillac DPi-V.R at top of the timesheets early in another session affected by rain.
The track was slightly damp when the green flag was waved and there were further spots of rain mid-session, but times were coming down when the session was red-flagged with just under 10 minutes remaining.
The session yielded the first representative times of the week ahead of a race that will be held in dry but cold conditions according to weather forecasts.
Bourdais’s lap compared with the fastest practice lap of 1m34.351s from last weekend’s pre-race Roar test and the 1m34.034s that gave JDC-Miller driver Tristan Vautier pole position for the grid-setting 100-mile qualifying race
Loic Duval had just gone second in the JDC-Miller Caddy when the interruption came, the Frenchman posting a 1m35.095s.
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