Pier Guidi Leads Ferrari 1-2 in Le Mans Warmup

Ferrari driver Alessandro Pier Guidi paced warmup ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mans as the Italian marque locked out the top two positions.

In an uneventful 15-minute session, Pier Guidi posted a lap of 3:26.540 aboard the No. 51 Ferrari 499P he shares with James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi, which was enough to top the times by 0.356 seconds ahead of Antonio Fuoco’s sister No. 50 car.

Third-quickest was Sebastien Buemi aboard the No. 8 Toyota TR010 Hybrid on a 3:27.001, 0.461 seconds off the pace.

Alpine’s lead A424, the No. 36 car, was fourth-quickest in the hands of Frederic Makowiecki, followed by Daniel Juncadella in the No. 19 Genesis GMR-001 and the second of the Toyotas, the No. 7 car in which Mike Conway set the best time.

Best of the Cadillac V-Series.Rs was the No. 38 Hertz Team JOTA car of Earl Bamber, eighth behind the No. 35 Alpine of Ferdinand Habsburg.

BMW’s pole-winning No. 15 M Hybrid V8 was 12th-fastest in the hands of Kevin Magnussen, 2.6 seconds off the pace.

Of the 18-strong Hypercar field, two cars did not set a lap time: the No. 83 satellite AF Corse Ferrari and the No. 94 Peugeot 9X8.

In LMP2, Alexander Quinn put the CrowdStrike Racing by APR Oreca 07 Gibson atop of the charts with a lap of 3:37.111, nine thousandths of a second faster than Mathias Beche in the No. 14 TDS Racing Oreca.

The No. 28 IDEC Sport car that will start first was third-fastest with Job van Uitert at the wheel ahead of the car that had been fastest in Hyperpole but will start second after a penalty, the No. 29 Forestier Racing by Panis Oreca of Esteban Masson.

TF Sport-run Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs swept the top two in LMGT3 as Jonny Edgar paced the class with a best time of 3:54.825 in the No. 33 entry, followed by the JMR-branded No. 2 machine of Le Mans debutant Ben Green.

Third-fastest was Maxime Martin’s No. 61 Iron Lynx Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo.

Only one car of the 62 that are set to contest the race, the 13 Autosport Corvette, did not leave the garage during the 15-minute session.

The 24 Hours Le Mans is set to begin at 4 p.m. local time (10 a.m. EST).