Taking over the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar that Alessandro Pier Guidi drove to second in Hyperpole, Calado whisked to a time of 3m27.275s shortly before Jean-Eric Vergne’s #93 Peugeot 9X8 LMH brought out the red flags when it stopped between the two Mulsanne Chicanes.
The one-hour session was restarted with 20 minutes still on the clock, but there were few noteworthy improvements thereafter as Calado’s benchmark time held.
Calado was 1.003s faster than Esteban Gutierrez in the Le Mans-only #709 Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 that will start the World Endurance Championship blue riband from 14th.
Gutierrez was in turn 0.162s faster than the Jota Porsche 963 LMDh campaigned by Will Stevens, which missed qualifying on Wednesday due to an electronic problem.
Kevin Estre improved to fourth after the red flag in the best of the factory Penske-run Porsches, his #6 machine usurping the Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R of Alexander Sims.
Jose Maria Lopez completed the top six in the leading Toyota GR010 HYBRID, 1.648s down on Calado, while a late effort from polesitter Antonio Fuoco in the second Ferrari secured him seventh in the #50 machine that didn’t set a time prior to the stoppage.
Vergne was shuffled back to eighth ahead of Michael Christensen’s #5 Penske Porsche as Richard Westbrook completed the top 10 in WEC full-season Ganassi Cadillac.
Tom Dillmann’s early effort aboard the Vanwall Vandervell 680 slotted him into 11th, ahead of Romain Dumas in the second Glickenhaus and Mathieu Jaminet’s #75 Porsche.
The #7 Toyota likewise only appeared in the final third of the session and ended up 14th in Sebastien Buemi's hands ahead of the #93 Peugeot campaigned by Loic Duval.
After a burst high pressure fuel hose caused a fire in Hyperpole, the #3 Ganassi Cadillac didn’t turn a lap.
The LMP2 pace was set by Dries Vanthoor’s TF Sport-run Racing Team Turkey ORECA-Gibson 07 as the BMW factory driver stormed to the top of the timesheets.
Vanthoor logged a 3m36.229s aboard the pro-am entry to beat Job van Uitert by 0.421s in the ORECA fielded by Panis Racing.
After a late effort from Prema’s Mirko Bortolotti secured the fastest time in Wednesday evening’s FP2 session, the Lamborghini factory driver repeated the trick to move into third in the dying minutes of the session.
That demoted Tom Blomqvist to fourth in the #23 United Autosport entry, as Ben Barnicoat (AF Corse) and Pietro Fittipaldi’s pole-contending Jota machine rounded out the top six.
LMP2 polewinners IDEC Sport ended up 14th with Laurents Horr setting its best time.
An early lap from Thomas Neubauer in the repaired JMW Motorsport Ferrari 488 GTE Evo secured the top spot in GTE Am.
The Frenchman, in the car crashed during opening practice by Louis Prette, beat Ferrari factory driver Daniel Serra’s Kessel example to the top spot by 0.104s with a 3m52.965s lap.
Alessio Picariello shuffled up the order into third in the closing stages aboard his Iron Lynx Porsche 911 RSR-19 ahead of fellow late improver Jan Heylen’s Proton example, as polewinner Corvette Racing’s works-entered C8.R ended up sixth with Nicolas Varrone at the wheel.
Le Mans 24 Hours - FP4 results:
| Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 51 |
 James Calado  Antonio Giovinazzi Alessandro Pier Guidi |
Ferrari 499P | HYPERCAR | 3'27.275 | |
| 2 | 709 |
 Nathanael Berthon  Esteban Gutierrez Franck Mailleux |
Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 3'28.278 | 1.003 |
| 3 | 38 |
 Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens  Ye Yifei |
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 3'28.440 | 1.165 |
| 4 | 6 |
Kevin Estre  Andre Lotterer  Laurens Vanthoor |
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 3'28.457 | 1.182 |
| 5 | 311 |
Jack Aitken  Pipo Derani Alexander Sims |
Cadillac V-Series.R | HYPERCAR | 3'28.603 | 1.328 |
| 6 | 7 |
Mike Conway  Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 3'28.923 | 1.648 |
| 7 | 50 |
Antonio Fuoco  Miguel Molina  Nicklas Nielsen |
Ferrari 499P | HYPERCAR | 3'28.935 | 1.660 |
| 8 | 93 |
Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne |
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 3'29.053 | 1.778 |
| 9 | 5 |
 Dane Cameron Michael Christensen Frédéric Makowiecki |
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 3'29.371 | 2.096 |
| 10 | 2 |
 Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook |
Cadillac V-Series.R | HYPERCAR | 3'29.948 | 2.673 |
| 11 | 4 |
Tom Dillmann Esteban Guerrieri Tristan Vautier |
Vanwall Vandervell 680 | HYPERCAR | 3'30.115 | 2.840 |
| 12 | 708 |
 Ryan Briscoe Romain Dumas Olivier Pla |
Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 3'30.202 | 2.927 |
| 13 | 75 |
Mathieu Jaminet Felipe Nasr Nick Tandy |
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 3'30.534 | 3.259 |
| 14 | 8 |
 Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 3'30.616 | 3.341 |
| 15 | 94 |
Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes Nico Müller |
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 3'30.881 | 3.606 |
| 16 | 923 |
Tom Gamble Dries Vanthoor  Salih Yoluc |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'36.229 | 8.954 |
| 17 | 65 |
 Tijmen van der Helm  Manuel Maldonado Job Van Uitert |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'36.650 | 9.375 |
| 18 | 63 |
Mirko Bortolotti  Daniil Kvyat Doriane Pin |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'36.904 | 9.629 |
| 19 | 23 |
Tom Blomqvist Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'36.964 | 9.689 |
| 20 | 80 |
Ben Barnicoat Norman Nato François Perrodo |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'37.126 | 9.851 |
| 21 | 28 |
Pietro Fittipaldi David Heinemeier Hansson Oliver Rasmussen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'37.351 | 10.076 |
| 22 | 9 |
Juan Manuel Correa  Filip Ugran Bent Viscaal |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'37.360 | 10.085 |
| 23 | 22 |
Filipe Albuquerque Philip Hanson Frederick Lubin |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'37.407 | 10.132 |
| 24 | 31 |
Robin Frijns  Sean Gelael  Ferdinand Habsburg |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'37.877 | 10.602 |
| 25 | 37 |
Alexandre Coigny Malthe Jakobsen Nicolas Lapierre |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'38.241 | 10.966 |
| 26 | 14 |
Mathias Beche Ben Hanley Rodrigo Sales |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'38.637 | 11.362 |
| 27 | 47 |
Reshad de Gerus Vlad Lomko Simon Pagenaud |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'38.714 | 11.439 |
| 28 | 43 |
Maxime Martin Tom Van Rompuy Ugo de Wilde |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'38.760 | 11.485 |
| 29 | 48 |
Paul-Loup Chatin Laurents Hörr Paul Lafargue |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'38.777 | 11.502 |
| 30 | 36 |
Julien Canal Charles Milesi Matthieu Vaxiviere |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'38.972 | 11.697 |
| 31 | 41 |
Rui Andrade Louis Deletraz  Robert Kubica |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'39.064 | 11.789 |
| 32 | 39 |
Giedo van der Garde Roberto Lacorte Patrick Pilet |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'39.155 | 11.880 |
| 33 | 34 |
Albert Costa Fabio Scherer Jakub Smiechowski |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'39.211 | 11.936 |
| 34 | 30 |
Rene Binder Neel Jani  Nicolas Pino |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'39.376 | 12.101 |
| 35 | 10 |
Gabriel Aubry  Ryan Cullen  Matthias Kaiser |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'40.079 | 12.804 |
| 36 | 45 |
James Allen Colin Braun George Kurtz |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'40.689 | 13.414 |
| 37 | 13 |
René Rast Ricky Taylor Steven Thomas |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'40.822 | 13.547 |
| 38 | 32 |
Anders Fjordbach Mark Kvamme Jan Magnussen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'42.853 | 15.578 |
| 39 | 35 |
Olli Caldwell Andre Negrao Memo Rojas |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'43.623 | 16.348 |
| 40 | 24 |
Jenson Button Jimmie Johnson Mike Rockenfeller |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 | INNOVATIVE CAR | 3'51.903 | 24.628 |
| 41 | 66 |
Thomas Neubauer Giacomo Petrobelli Louis Prette |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'52.965 | 25.690 |
| 42 | 57 |
Scott Huffaker Takeshi Kimura Daniel Serra |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'53.069 | 25.794 |
| 43 | 60 |
Matteo Cressoni Alessio Picariello Claudio Schiavoni |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 3'53.316 | 26.041 |
| 44 | 16 |
Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen  Zacharie Robichon |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 3'53.419 | 26.144 |
| 45 | 56 |
Matteo Cairoli PJ Hyett Gunnar Jeannette |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 3'53.439 | 26.164 |
| 46 | 33 |
Nick Catsburg Ben Keating Nicolas Varrone |
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE AM | 3'53.624 | 26.349 |
| 47 | 54 |
Francesco Castellacci Thomas Flohr Davide Rigon |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'53.652 | 26.377 |
| 48 | 21 |
Simon Mann Ulysse De Pauw Julien Piguet |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'53.721 | 26.446 |
| 49 | 88 |
Jonas Ried Harry Tincknell Don Yount |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 3'53.745 | 26.470 |
| 50 | 98 |
Ian James Daniel Mancinelli Alex Riberas |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 3'53.861 | 26.586 |
| 51 | 86 |
Benjamin Barker Riccardo Pera Michael Wainwright |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 3'53.912 | 26.637 |
| 52 | 85 |
Sarah Bovy Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 3'54.423 | 27.148 |
| 53 | 83 |
Luis Perez Companc Alessio Rovera Lilou Wadoux |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'54.602 | 27.327 |
| 54 | 55 |
Gustav Birch Jens Reno Moller Marco Sorensen |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 3'57.318 | 30.043 |
| 55 | 74 |
Kei Cozzolino Yorikatsu Tsujiko Naoki Yokomizo |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'59.031 | 31.756 |
| 56 | 100 |
Andrew Haryanto Chandler Hull Jeff Segal |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 4'00.451 | 33.176 |
| 57 | 777 |
Tomonobu Fujii Satoshi Hoshino Casper Stevenson |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 4'01.206 | 33.931 |
| 58 | 72 |
Valentin Hasse-Clot Arnold Robin Maxime Robin |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 4'01.606 | 34.331 |
| 59 | 77 |
Julien Andlauer Christian Ried Mikkel Pedersen |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 4'07.309 | 40.034 |
| 60 | 3 |
Sébastien Bourdais Scott Dixon Renger van der Zande |
Cadillac V-Series.R | HYPERCAR | ||
| 61 | 25 |
Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan Charles Eastwood |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | ||
| 62 | 911 |
Michael Fassbender Richard Lietz  Martin Rump |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | ||
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