Times set early in the one-hour session were around 20 seconds off the dry pace set on Thursday, but improved steadily before a final flurry of quick times saw several different manufacturers take turns atop the leaderboard.
It was Kobayashi’s #7 GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar that ended up fastest with a 2m08.702s effort, despite the Japanese running wide at Blanchimont after he passed a GTE Am Porsche at the apex.
That put him 0.734s ahead of Earl Bamber’s #2 Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh, which had spun a few minutes earlier at the Bruxelles Hairpin.
However, it was still 6.831s down on the best dry time posted by Antonio Giovinazzi’s #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar in FP2.
Will Stevens moved Jota’s new #38 Porsche 963 up to third, as Antonio Felix da Costa enjoyed the bulk of running to acclimatise to the new machine after missing Thursday’s running on Formula E simulator duty.
Stevens’ 2m10.434s lap was however only the fourth-fastest time overall, as Ferdinand Habsburg whisked his #31 WRT ORECA-Gibson 07 LMP2 machine around 0.166s quicker than Stevens and 0.961s up on his nearest class rival.
That honour fell to Gabriel Aubry’s Vector Sport ORECA, who pipped the #8 Toyota to fifth overall, with Ryo Hirakawa the only driver inside the top 10 overall not to set his best time on the final tour.
Sebastien Bourdais took the second Ganassi Cadillac to fifth in the 13-car Hypercar field after its running was curtailed early in FP2.
Behind Filipe Albuquerque’s #22 United Autosports ORECA LMP2, Antonio Fuoco put the best of the Ferrari LMHs ninth overall ahead of Albuquerque’s team-mate Josh Pierson, who at one point was six seconds quicker than his nearest class rival before falling back late on.
Romain Dumas had been fastest of all with four minutes to go in the Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMH before dropping back to 11th overall and the seventh of the Hypercar entries on a 2m12.032s lap as conditions continued to improve.
That was enough to move him ahead of both factory Porsche Hypercars, with Fred Makowiecki glancing the tyre barriers at Stavelot in the #5 Penske-run 963 and having to pit after his gravelly excursion.
Several Hypercar crews didn’t set a competitive time late in the session when track was at its best, including the #51 Ferrari in which Giovinazzi was for some time the quickest on a 2m14.305s.
That only proved to be the 15th fastest time in the final reckoning, just behind the #6 Penske Porsche of Kevin Estre – another not to punch for truly competitive times in the dying minutes.
The two Peugeot 9X8 LMH machines of Nico Muller and Mikkel Jensen had run Giovinazzi close in the middle phase of the session, but also elected not to run at the end.
Vanwall’s Vandervell 680 LMH completed the Hypercar field in the hands of Tom Dillmann after losing time recovering from a spin for Esteban Guerrieri at La Source.
The flurry of late improvements in LMP2 that ended with Habsburg on top also meant the class’s long-time leader ended up eighth at the flag.
The #36 Signatech-run Alpine of Matthieu Vaxiviere had led the way from Pierson’s team-mate Tom Blomqvist until conditions improved and was joined in not setting its best time near the end by the #28 Jota machine that David Heinemeier-Hansson took over the grass at Pif-Paf.
The GTE Am class was headed by Matteo Cressoni’s #60 Iron Lynx Porsche 911 RSR-19.
The Italian’s 2m25.726s lap proved 3.355s faster than Casper Stevenson in the TF Sport-run #777 D’Station Aston Martin.
Lilou Wadoux spun into the Turn 9 barriers in her #83 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo to bring out a full course yellow, but it still ended up third quickest on the timesheets courtesy of Alessio Rovera.
The #54 AF Ferrari was repaired after Thomas Flohr was clouted by Diego Alessi in a crash at Radillon which caused FP2 to be red-flagged, but the latter’s #21 machine didn’t appear as a replacement chassis is being sourced from Italy.
WEC Spa - FP3 results:
| Cla | Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Mike Conway  Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez
|
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 22 | 2'08.702 | ||
| 2 |
 Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook
|
Cadillac V-Series.R | HYPERCAR | 16 | 2'09.436 | 0.734 | 0.734 |
| 3 |
 Sean Gelael  Ferdinand Habsburg  Robin Frijns
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 21 | 2'10.268 | 1.566 | 0.832 |
| 4 |
 Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens  Ye Yifei
|
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 22 | 2'10.434 | 1.732 | 0.166 |
| 5 |
 Ryan Cullen Matthias Kaiser  Gabriel Aubry
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 21 | 2'11.229 | 2.527 | 0.795 |
| 6 |
 Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa
|
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 22 | 2'11.344 | 2.642 | 0.115 |
| 7 |
Sébastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Jack Aitken
|
Cadillac V-Series.R | HYPERCAR | 15 | 2'11.585 | 2.883 | 0.241 |
| 8 |
Frederick Lubin Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 20 | 2'11.732 | 3.030 | 0.147 |
| 9 |
 Antonio Fuoco  Miguel Molina  Nicklas Nielsen
|
Ferrari 499P | HYPERCAR | 21 | 2'11.803 | 3.101 | 0.071 |
| 10 |
 Josh Pierson Tom Blomqvist Oliver Jarvis
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 19 | 2'11.943 | 3.241 | 0.140 |
| 11 |
Romain Dumas Olivier Pla Franck Mailleux
|
Glickenhaus 007 | HYPERCAR | 20 | 2'12.032 | 3.330 | 0.089 |
| 12 |
Dane Cameron Michael Christensen Frédéric Makowiecki
|
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 21 | 2'12.744 | 4.042 | 0.712 |
| 13 |
Doriane Pin Mirko Bortolotti  Daniil Kvyat
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 20 | 2'13.349 | 4.647 | 0.605 |
| 14 |
Kevin Estre  Andre Lotterer  Laurens Vanthoor
|
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 19 | 2'14.289 | 5.587 | 0.940 |
| 15 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Antonio Giovinazzi
|
Ferrari 499P | HYPERCAR | 21 | 2'14.305 | 5.603 | 0.016 |
| 16 |
Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes Nico Müller
|
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 20 | 2'14.567 | 5.865 | 0.262 |
| 17 |
Filip Ugran Bent Viscaal Andrea Caldarelli
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 21 | 2'15.837 | 7.135 | 1.270 |
| 18 |
Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne
|
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 21 | 2'15.966 | 7.264 | 0.129 |
| 19 |
Tom Dillmann Esteban Guerrieri  Jacques Villeneuve
|
Vanwall Vandervell 680 | HYPERCAR | 15 | 2'18.198 | 9.496 | 2.232 |
| 20 |
Rui Andrade  Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 19 | 2'19.052 | 10.350 | 0.854 |
| 21 |
Matthieu Vaxiviere Julien Canal Charles Milesi
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 20 | 2'20.031 | 11.329 | 0.979 |
| 22 |
David Heinemeier Hansson  Pietro Fittipaldi Oliver Rasmussen
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 20 | 2'21.928 | 13.226 | 1.897 |
| 23 |
Andre Negrao  Memo Rojas Olli Caldwell
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 21 | 2'22.791 | 14.089 | 0.863 |
| 24 |
Jakub Smiechowski Fabio Scherer Albert Costa
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 20 | 2'23.216 | 14.514 | 0.425 |
| 25 |
Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Alessio Picariello
|
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 15 | 2'25.726 | 17.024 | 2.510 |
| 26 |
Satoshi Hoshino Casper Stevenson Tomonobu Fujii
|
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 19 | 2'29.280 | 20.578 | 3.554 |
| 27 |
Luis Perez Companc Lilou Wadoux Alessio Rovera
|
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 14 | 2'29.691 | 20.989 | 0.411 |
| 28 |
Takeshi Kimura Scott Huffaker Daniel Serra
|
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 20 | 2'30.412 | 21.710 | 0.721 |
| 29 |
PJ Hyett Gunnar Jeannette Matteo Cairoli
|
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 20 | 2'30.463 | 21.761 | 0.051 |
| 30 |
Ben Keating Nicolas Varrone Nick Catsburg
|
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE AM | 19 | 2'30.541 | 21.839 | 0.078 |
| 31 |
Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan Charles Eastwood
|
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 16 | 2'30.952 | 22.250 | 0.411 |
| 32 |
Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker
|
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 11 | 2'31.107 | 22.405 | 0.155 |
| 33 |
Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Davide Rigon
|
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 11 | 2'31.350 | 22.648 | 0.243 |
| 34 |
Ian James Daniel Mancinelli Alex Riberas
|
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 19 | 2'31.629 | 22.927 | 0.279 |
| 35 |
Christian Ried Mikkel Pedersen Julien Andlauer
|
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 12 | 2'31.773 | 23.071 | 0.144 |
| 36 |
Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Rahel Frey
|
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 19 | 2'32.134 | 23.432 | 0.361 |
| 37 |
Ryan Hardwick Zacharie Robichon Harry Tincknell
|
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 19 | 2'33.144 | 24.442 | 1.010 |
| 38 |
Diego Alessi Simon Mann Ulysse De |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 0 | |||
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