
The Frenchman took the top spot by nearly a second aboard the solo Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMH after setting a sequence of laps good enough for pole over the course of the 10-minute session.
His best of 1m35.416s put him nine tenths up on the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID in which a late improvement to 1m36.335s from Brendon Hartley brought the gap down to under a second.