Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Romain Dumas jumped to the top of the times just before a short but heavy shower soon after the halfway point of the one-hour practice period on Wednesday.
The Frenchman posted the only time below the 1m50s mark with a 1m49.738s aboard the solo Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMH, which gave him a half second margin at the top of the times.
The lap vaulted Dumas ahead of the best of the Toyota GR010 HYBRIDs, which was further demoted to third by Matthieu Vaxiviere in the Alpine-Gibson A480 grandfathered LMP1 just before the shower.
Vaxiviere’s 1m50.263s just shaded Sebastien Buemi’s earlier 1m50.267s, which put the #8 Toyota third in the final times.
A wet track surface after the rain abated for the final 20 or so minutes of the session meant there were no further improvements.
The Realteam by WRT ORECA-Gibson 07 was fourth overall and fastest in LMP2 in Ferdinand Habsburg’s hands.
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