Le Mans 24 Jam: Nakajima dan Toyota tercepat di warm-up
Kazuki Nakajima menempatkan Toyota di puncak sesi warm-up Sabtu pagi menjelang balapan Le Mans 24 Jam, unggul 0,3 detik lebih cepat dari kompatriot dan peraih pole, Kamui Kobayashi.
Mengemudikan mobil Toyota TS050 Hybrid #8, Nakajima mencetak waktu terbaik 3 menit 18,308 detik pada penghujung sesi. Raihan tersebut 0,363 detik lebih cepat dari torehan Kobayashi, 3 menit 18,661 detik.
Perbaikan waktu yang dilakukan keduanya menggeser Nick Tandy dan Porsche dari posisi teratas. Pembalap Inggris Raya yang mengemudikan mobil Porsche 919 Hybrid #1 itu mencetak waktu 3 menit 20,120 detik, dan sempat memimpin jalannya sesi.
Tandy, yang menjuarai Le Mans 2015, terpaut 1,812 detik dari Nakajima, tapi unggul 0,2 detik dari debutan Le Mans, Yuji Kunimoto, yang mengemudikan mobil Toyota #9.
Mobil Porsche #2 berada di urutan kelima setelah Brendon Hartley mencatat waktu yang masih terpaut 0,1 detik lebih lambat dari Kunimoto.
Satu-satunya tim privatir LMP1, ByKolles, gagal menunjukkan penampilan yang kompetitif pada sesi ini setelah Marco Bonanomi hanya mampu meraih waktu 4 menit 09,884 detik, terpaut 51 detik lebih lambat dari pemuncak sesi dan menempati urutan ke-49 keseluruhan.
Peraih pole LMP2, G-Drive Oreca #26, menjadi pemuncak sesi untuk kelas tersebut setelah mencatat waktu 3 menit 27,096 detik, unggul 2,3 detik lebih cepat dari trio pembalap Rebellion Oreca #13: Bruno Senna, Julien Canal, dan Nicolas Prost.
Sementara untuk kategori GT, Ford GT #69 yang diawaki Ryan Briscoe, Scott Dixon, dan Richard Westbrook menjadi yang tercepat dengan catatan waktu 3 menit 51,789 detik.
Hasil warm-up Le Mans 24 Jam 2017:
| Pos | # | Pembalap | Mobil | Kelas | Lap | Waktu | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 |  Anthony Davidson  Kazuki Nakajima  Sébastien Buemi | Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 11 | 3'18.308 | |
| 2 | 7 |  Stéphane Sarrazin Kamui Kobayashi Mike Conway | Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 11 | 3'18.661 | 0.353 |
| 3 | 1 |  Andre Lotterer Neel Jani Nick Tandy | Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 11 | 3'20.120 | 1.812 |
| 4 | 9 | Nicolas Lapierre  Jose Maria Lopez Yuji Kunimoto | Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 11 | 3'20.327 | 2.019 |
| 5 | 2 | Timo Bernhard  Brendon Hartley Earl Bamber | Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 11 | 3'20.430 | 2.122 |
| 6 | 26 |  Roman Rusinov Pierre Thiriet Alex Lynn | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 10 | 3'27.096 | 8.788 |
| 7 | 31 |  Bruno Senna Julien Canal Nicolas Prost | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 8 | 3'29.425 | 11.117 |
| 8 | 13 | Nelson Piquet Jr.  David Heinemeier Hansson Mathias Beche | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 9 | 3'29.698 | 11.390 |
| 9 | 27 | Sergey Sirotkin Viktor Shaytar Mikhail Aleshin | Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 12 | 3'30.648 | 12.340 |
| 10 | 21 |  Felix Rosenqvist Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 8 | 3'30.696 | 12.388 |
| 11 | 28 | François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Matthieu Vaxivière | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 10 | 3'30.986 | 12.678 |
| 12 | 32 |  Filipe Albuquerque  William Owen Hugo Sadeleer | Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 8 | 3'31.340 | 13.032 |
| 13 | 35 | Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues André Negrao | Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 10 | 3'31.370 | 13.062 |
| 14 | 36 | Romain Dumas Gustavo Menezes Matthew Rao | Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 10 | 3'32.356 | 14.048 |
| 15 | 22 |  Jose Gutierrez Memo Rojas Ryo Hirakawa | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 10 | 3'32.398 | 14.090 |
| 16 | 29 |  Jan Lammers Rubens Barrichello Frits van Eerd | Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 10 | 3'33.812 | 15.504 |
| 17 | 47 |  Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Andrea Belicchi | Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 10 | 3'34.887 | 16.579 |
| 18 | 33 | Jacques Nicolet Erik Maris Pierre Nicolet | Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 10 | 3'35.627 | 17.319 |
| 19 | 45 | Vincent Capillaire Mark Patterson Matt McMurry | Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 10 | 3'35.654 | 17.346 |
| 20 | 17 | Patrice Lafargue Paul Lafargue David Zollinger | Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 6 | 3'40.981 | 22.673 |
| 21 | 23 | Nathanael Berthon Fabien Barthez Timothé Buret | Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 10 | 3'42.139 | 23.831 |
| 22 | 43 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Ricky Taylor | Riley Mk. 30 | LMP2 | 3 | 3'49.663 | 31.355 |
| 23 | 69 |  Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook | Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 9 | 3'51.789 | 33.481 |
| 24 | 92 | Michael Christensen Kevin Estre Dirk Werner | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 8 | 3'52.526 | 34.218 |
| 25 | 68 | Tony Kanaan Joey Hand Dirk Müller | Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 9 | 3'52.668 | 34.360 |
| 26 | 67 | Pipo Derani Harry Tincknell  Andy Priaulx | Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 9 | 3'53.362 | 35.054 |
| 27 | 66 | Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla Billy Johnson | Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 5 | 3'53.475 | 35.167 |
| 28 | 82 | Giancarlo Fisichella  Toni Vilander Pierre Kaffer | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 8 | 3'53.633 | 35.325 |
| 29 | 71 | Sam Bird Davide Rigon  Miguel Molina | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 10 | 3'53.688 | 35.380 |
| 30 | 51 | James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi Michele Rugolo | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 11 | 3'53.693 | 35.385 |
| 31 | 91 |  Richard Lietz Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 11 | 3'53.754 | 35.446 |
| 32 | 63 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor | Chevrolet Corvette C7R | LMGTE PRO | 8 | 3'54.277 | 35.969 |
| 33 | 64 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner | Chevrolet Corvette C7R | LMGTE PRO | 10 | 3'54.424 | 36.116 |
| 34 | 97 | Darren Turner Jonathan Adam Daniel Serra | Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE PRO | 4 | 3'54.524 | 36.216 |
| 35 | 83 | Andrea Bertolini Tracy Krohn Niclas Jönsson | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 10 | 3'55.575 | 37.267 |
| 36 | 86 | Michael Wainwright Ben Barker Nick Foster | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 10 | 3'56.532 | 38.224 |
| 37 | 88 |  Khaled Al Qubaisi Klaus Bachler  Stéphane Lemeret | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 7 | 3'56.608 | 38.300 |
| 38 | 65 | Christina Nielsen Alessandro Balzan Bret Curtis | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 7 | 3'56.833 | 38.525 |
| 39 | 60 | Alvaro Parente  Richard Wee Hiroki Katoh | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 10 | 3'57.313 | 39.005 |
| 40 | 55 | Duncan Cameron Marco Cioci Aaron Scott | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 6 | 3'58.641 | 40.333 |
| 41 | 54 |  Olivier Beretta Francesco Castellacci Thomas Flohr | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 10 | 3'58.781 | 40.473 |
| 42 | 62 | Townsend Bell Bill Sweedler Cooper MacNeil | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 9 | 3'59.344 | 41.036 |
| 43 | 90 | Rob Bell  Salih Yoluc Euan Hankey | Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 7 | 4'00.046 | 41.738 |
| 44 | 50 | Fernando Rees Romain Brandela Christian Philippon | Chevrolet Corvette C7R | LMGTE AM | 6 | 4'00.447 | 42.139 |
| 45 | 61 |  Matt Griffin Mok Weng Sun Keita Sawa | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 10 | 4'01.016 | 42.708 |
| 46 | 93 | Patrick Long  Abdulaziz Al Faisal Mike Hedlund | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3 | 4'01.811 | 43.503 |
| 47 | 77 | Christian Ried Matteo Cairoli Marvin Dienst | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 6 | 4'02.040 | 43.732 |
| 48 | 84 | Will Stevens Robert Smith Dries Vanthoor | Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 4 | 4'08.423 | 50.115 |
| 49 | 4 | Marco Bonanomi Oliver Webb Dominik Kraihamer | ENSO CLM P1/01 | LMP1 | 4 | 4'09.884 | 51.576 |
| 50 | 24 | Jean-Eric Vergne Jonathan Hirschi  Tor Graves | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2 | ||
| 51 | 25 | Vitaly Petrov Simon Trummer Roberto Gonzalez | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2 | ||
| 52 | 34 |  Karun Chandhok Nigel Moore Philip Hanson | Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 4 | ||
| 53 | 37 |  David Cheng Tristan Gommendy Alex Brundle | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 4 | ||
| 54 | 38 | Oliver Jarvis Ho-Pin Tung Thomas Laurent | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 7 | ||
| 55 | 39 | James Winslow Eric Trouillet Enzo Guibbert | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1 | ||
| 56 | 40 | Richard Bradley James Allen Franck Matelli | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3 | ||
| 57 | 49 | Rik Breukers  Miro Konopka  Konstantins Calko | Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 3 | ||
| 58 | 95 | Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim Richie Stanaway | Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE PRO | 4 | ||
| 59 | 98 | Pedro Lamy  Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda | Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 6 | ||
| 60 | 99 | Andrew Howard Oliver Bryant Ross Gunn | Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 7 |
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