Brendon Hartley got down to a 3m29.441s with 20 minutes of the three-hour session remaining in the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid to push the #709 Glickenhaus 007 LMH down to second.
Glickenhaus driver Franck Mailleux had led the way with a 3m29.917s, which was just a couple of tenths up on Pipo Derani’s 3m30.102s in the sister car, which ended up third in the final times.
A 3m30.403s set by Kamui Kobayashi aboard the #7 car set early in the session had stood as the fastest Toyota time before Hartley improved on Sebastien Buemi’s earlier best in the #8.
The second Toyota was pushed down to fifth by the fastest LMP2 runner in the dying stages of the session.
Alex Lynn found just over two tenths aboard his United Autosports Oreca 07-Gibson with a 3m30.238s to improve on a time set early in the session which had stood as best in class until his improvement.
The Alpine A480-Gibson, the final runner in the Hypercar class, ended up eighth in the classification behind three LMP2 cars courtesy of a 3m32.075s from Andre Negrao.
Antonio Felix da Costa went second in P2 and sixth overall in the best of the JOTA Oreca with just a handful of minute left on the clock. His 3m31.624s just shaded Robert Kubica’s 3m31.881s in the Prema team’s solo Oreca.
Fourth fastest in class and ninth overall was taken by Robin Frijns in the best of three WRT-run Oreca.
The Dutch driver’s 3m32.158s just shaded Norman Nato’s 3m32.183s in the sister Realteam by WRT Oreca.
Fifth quickest LMP2, and the best of the pro/am P2 runners, was Mathias Beche aboard the TDS Racing entry with a 3m32.536s.
Corvette Racing maintained its test day form to take the top two positions in GTE Pro.
A 3m53.250s from Antonio Garcia aboard the #63 Corvette C8.R knocked teammate Tommy Milner in the sister car off the top spot.
Milner’s 3m53.360s put him seven tenths up on the best of the rest, the #91 Porsche 911 RSR-19 in which Gianmaria Bruni got down to 3m54.081s.
The sister Porsche took fourth in class in the hands of Michael Christensen with a 3m54.601s.
The top car from Ferrari, which was hit by reduction in power with a late Balance of Performance change ahead of the session, was the #52 factory AF Corse entry.
Antonio Fuoco got down to a 3m54.543s late in the session aboard his Ferrari 488 GTE Evo, while the sister #51 car didn’t set a representative time because it was undergoing an engine change.
The Proton-run WeatherTech Racing squad led the way in GTE Am. A 3m55.082s from Julien Andlauer gave the US entrant’s Proton-run Porsche 911 RSR a margin of nearly nine tenths on the GR Racing Porsche.
First qualifying begins at 19:00 with a one-hour session from which the fastest six cars in each class will go through to tomorrow’s Hyperpole session.
Le Mans 24 Hours 2022 - First practice results:
| Pos. | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 |
 Sebastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa | Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 3'29.441 | |
| 2 | 709 |
 Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Franck Mailleux | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 3'29.917 | 0.476 |
| 3 | 708 |
Olivier Pla Romain Dumas Pipo Derani | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 3'30.102 | 0.661 |
| 4 | 23 |
Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'30.238 | 0.797 |
| 5 | 7 |
Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez | Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 3'30.403 | 0.962 |
| 6 | 38 |
 Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'31.624 | 2.183 |
| 7 | 9 |
 Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'31.881 | 2.440 |
| 8 | 36 |
André Negrão Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxivière | Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 3'32.075 | 2.634 |
| 9 | 31 |
 Sean Gelael Robin Frijns René Rast | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'32.158 | 2.717 |
| 10 | 41 |
Rui Andrade Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'32.183 | 2.742 |
| 11 | 13 |
Philippe Cimadomo Mathias Beche Tijmen van der Helm | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'32.536 | 3.095 |
| 12 | 45 |
Steven Thomas James Allen Rene Binder | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'32.621 | 3.180 |
| 13 | 47 |
Sophia Floersch John Falb Jack Aitken | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.113 | 3.672 |
| 14 | 1 |
Lilou Wadoux Sébastien Ogier Charles Milesi | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.185 | 3.744 |
| 15 | 5 |
Dane Cameron Emmanuel Collard Felipe Nasr | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.213 | 3.772 |
| 16 | 22 |
Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque William Owen | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.363 | 3.922 |
| 17 | 83 |
François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.367 | 3.926 |
| 18 | 32 |
Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Dries Vanthoor | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.502 | 4.061 |
| 19 | 37 | Ye Yifei Ricky Taylor Niklas Kruetten | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.642 | 4.201 |
| 20 | 48 |
Paul Lafargue Paul Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.848 | 4.407 |
| 21 | 24 |
Rodrigo Sales Matt Bell Ben Hanley | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.899 | 4.458 |
| 22 | 43 |
David Heinemeier Hansson Fabio Scherer Pietro Fittipaldi | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.292 | 4.851 |
| 23 | 28 |
Jonathan Aberdein | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.434 | 4.993 |
| 24 | 35 |
Jean-Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye Francois Heriau | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.564 | 5.123 |
| 25 | 30 |
Richard Bradley Guillermo Rojas Reshad de Gerus | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.700 | 5.259 |
| 26 | 65 |
Julien Canal Nico Jamin Job Van Uitert | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.854 | 5.413 |
| 27 | 10 |
Nico Müller Ryan Cullen Sebastien Bourdais | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'35.091 | 5.650 |
| 28 | 44 |
 Miroslav Konopka Bent Viscaal Tristan Vautier | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'35.754 | 6.313 |
| 29 | 39 |
Eric Trouillet Sebastien Page David Droux | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'35.834 | 6.393 |
| 30 | 3 |
Laurents Hörr Jean Glorieux Alexandre Cougnaud | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'36.390 | 6.949 |
| 31 | 34 |
Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'36.519 | 7.078 |
| 32 | 27 |
Cresp Christophe Michael Jensen Steven Palette | Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 3'40.886 | 11.445 |
| 33 | 63 |
 Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nicky Catsburg | Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 3'53.250 | 23.809 |
| 34 | 64 |
Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims | Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 3'53.360 | 23.919 |
| 35 | 91 |
Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 3'54.081 | 24.640 |
| 36 | 92 |
Michael Christensen Kevin Estre Laurens Vanthoor | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 3'54.539 | 25.098 |
| 37 | 52 |
Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco Davide Rigon | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 3'54.543 | 25.102 |
| 38 | 74 |
Felipe Fraga Sam Bird Shane van Gisbergen | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 3'54.601 | 25.160 |
| 39 | 79 |
Cooper MacNeil Julien Andlauer Thomas Merrill | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'55.082 | 25.641 |
| 40 | 86 |
Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Ben Barker | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'55.941 | 26.500 |
| 41 | 33 |
Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Marco Sørensen | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 3'55.997 | 26.556 |
| 42 | 98 |
 Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 3'56.211 | 26.770 |
| 43 | 777 |
Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charles Fagg | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 3'56.257 | 26.816 |
| 44 | 85 |
Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'56.663 | 27.222 |
| 45 | 60 |
Claudio Schiavoni Alessandro Balzan Raffaele Giammaria | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'56.940 | 27.499 |
| 46 | 21 |
Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'56.954 | 27.513 |
| 47 | 56 |
Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'57.082 | 27.641 |
| 48 | 77 |
Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'57.138 | 27.697 |
| 49 | 99 |
Andrew Haryanto Alessio Picariello Martin Rump | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'57.237 | 27.796 |
| 50 | 57 |
Takeshi Kimura Frederik Schandorff Mikkel Jensen | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'57.333 | 27.892 |
| 51 | 55 |
Duncan Cameron Matt Griffin David Perel | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'57.345 | 27.904 |
| 52 | 61 |
 Louis Prette Conrad Grunewald Vincent Abril | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'57.392 | 27.951 |
| 53 | 46 |
Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'57.514 | 28.073 |
| 54 | 80 |
Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella Richard Heistand | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'57.557 | 28.116 |
| 55 | 71 |
Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'57.793 | 28.352 |
| 56 | 54 |
Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'57.964 | 28.523 |
| 57 | 93 |
Michael Fassbender Matthew Campbell Zacharie Robichon | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'57.971 | 28.530 |
| 58 | 66 |
Renger van der Zande Mark Kvamme Jason Hart | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'58.081 | 28.640 |
| 59 | 75 |
Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Nicolas Varrone | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'58.138 | 28.697 |
| 60 | 88 |
Fred Poordad Max Root Jan Heylen | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'59.105 | 29.664 |
| 61 | 59 |
Alexander West Côme Ledogar Marvin Klein | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 4'00.254 | 30.813 |
| 62 | 51 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 4'01.511 | 32.070 |
