As in Wednesday afternoon’s second session, the Alpine A480-Gibson grandfathered LMP1 sat at the head of the classification for the majority of the session on Thursday morning, only for the Glickenhaus 007 LMH to jump ahead towards the end.
After a quiet Wednesday for the Toyota GR010 HYBRIDs, they ran an early 1-2 with Brendon Hartley ahead of Jose Maria Lopez, but both failed to dip under the 1m50s barrier.
Nicolas Lapierre then went quickest with a 1m50.293s in the one-hour practice period, before working down to 1m49.664s that appeared to cement his position at the top of the times.
But with 20 minutes of the session to go, Lapierre’s fellow Frenchman Olivier Pla then pipped him to the top spot with a time of 1m49.261s to end the session on top for Glickenhaus, 0.403s faster than the Alpine.
Third quickest was Filipe Albuquerque’s United Autosports LMP2 ORECA on 1m49.745s, just 0.081s off the Alpine’s pace.
The Portuguese driver’s effort pushed his compatriot Antonio…
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