Free Practice 1
Phil Hanson topped Free Practice One in the #22 United Autosports Oreca with a lap in 2:05.743 set early in the 90-minute session, a full second clear of title rivals Team WRT with Louis Deletraz.
Third in the order was the first of the LMP2 Pro-Am cars, the #37 Cool Racing car in the hands of new signing and Le Mans LMP2 winner Charles Milesi, the Frenchman just pipping Nyck de Vries to third in the finishing order.
Laurents Hörr continued his dominant form in LMP3, topping the class times in the DKR Engineering Duqueine with a 2:12.839, two tenths ahead of the #2 United Autosports Ligier of Wayne Boyd with a four car group a further half-second back headed by the #13 Inter Europol Ligier of Ugo de Wilde followed closely by David Droux (#8 Graff), Joey Alders (#11 Eurointernational) and Duncan Tappy (3 United).
GTE saw the three marques represented in the top three with Miguel Molina setting an early mark for the #80 Iron Lynx Ferrari outfit, 2:17.859, that would not be beaten.
Richard Lietz would put the #93 Proton Porsche second in the times a couple of tenths back with Ross Gunn again quick in the #95 TF Sport Aston Martin, third fastest and another two tenths back.
Bronze Test
Salih Yoluc put the #34 Racing Team Turkey on top with just three LMP2 Pro-Am cars listed this weekend, his 2:08.889 a second clear of John Falb in the #25 G-Drive Racing Aurus.
In LMP3 there was another seconds gap, this time between the #9 Graff Ligier of Rory Penttinen (2:14.573) and the #4 DKR Engineering Duqueine of Mathieu de Barbaut.
GTE meanwhile saw the session topped by the #80 Iron Lynx Ferrari of Rino Mastronardi, his 2:19.976 a quarter of a second clear of Sarah Bovy in the sister #83 488, Francois Perrodo and Duncan Cameron would complete an all Ferrari top 4.
Free Practice 2
A bright Saturday morning greeted the field for the final Free Practice session with the times topped by the #32 United Autosports Oreca, Nico Jamin posting a 2:04.830, the fastest time of the meeting so far, four-tenths up on the sister #22 car to complete a United 1-2 in the session.
Nico Lapierre completed the top three in the #37 Cool Racing Oreca, the car stopping at pit-in at the very end of the session, presumed out of fuel!
LMP3 saw another session topped by the DKR Engineering Duqueine, Laurents Hörr with a 2:11.834, almost a full second clear of Wayne BOYD in the #2 United Ligier. Joey Alders rounded out the top three in the #11 Eurointernational Ligier.
GTE saw Matt Campbell on top in the #77 Proton Porsche, 2:16.950 edging out Ross Gunn in the #95 TF Sport Aston Martin with Richard Lietz a further half second back in the second, #93 Proton Porsche.
