Overview
- Cadillac led the morning running with Filipe Albuquerque’s 3:27.011 but a contact involving the No. 8 Toyota forced repairs that the team confirmed were not serious and completed before the afternoon session.
- Tom Gamble set the day’s fastest lap in the No. 007 Aston Martin with a 3:26.293 and Brendon Hartley returned the repaired No. 8 Toyota to within 0.108 seconds of that benchmark.
- Job van Uitert put IDEC Sport’s No. 28 Oreca top of LMP2 with a 3:35.344 and Francesco Castellacci gave the No. 54 AF Corse Ferrari LMGT3 best time at 3:56.646, establishing class reference laps.
- Race stewards issued multiple five‑minute stop‑and‑go penalties for repeated track‑limits breaches, with the No. 9 Proton Competition, No. 29 Forestier Racing by Panis and No. 222 United Autosports LMP2 cars each required to serve two 300‑second stops.
- The test underlined a much tighter Le Mans field than in past years with all eight Hypercar manufacturers within roughly one second and teams now analysing tyre and setup data ahead of Wednesday’s first practice.