The headlines from FP4 at Le Mans

Hypercar

• Local star Sébastien Bourdais took the fastest FP4 lap of 3m26.843s in the #38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA entry during the final track time before race day warm-up for the 94th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Saturday afternoon
• Bourdais, who along with team-mates Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber had seen pole position denied them after a Hyperpole 2 penalty, outpaced the #20 BMW driven by Robin Frijns
• The #7 Toyota TR010 Hybrid initially held the top spot courtesy of a 3m27.146s from Mike Conway early in the 60-minute session, before BMW’s Frijns beat that benchmark by 0.109s and Bourdais produced his late flyer
• Teams and drivers completed their race set-up preparations, finalising tyre strategies alongside other key strategies ahead of the third round of the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship campaign
• Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA also took fourth, as Norman Nato posted a late 3m27.282s lap to place two of the V-Series.R Hypercars inside the top four positions
• The #35 Alpine that qualified third earlier on Thursday evening placed fifth in FP4, as Charles Milesi, António Félix da Costa and Ferdinand Habsburg get set to try and win Les Bleus’ final Le Mans with the A424
• The reigning Le Mans-winning #83 AF Corse Ferrari took the sixth-best time, as Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Phil Hanson prepare to try and push to the front from a lowly 17th place on the grid

LMGT3

• The #33 TF Sport Corvette was fastest in FP4 to give the trio of Ben Keating, Jonny Edgar and Nicky Catsburg a welcome boost after a difficult qualifying on Wednesday evening
• It was the Dane who set the 3m55.262s lap to lead the sister #34 Racing Team Turkey by TF Corvette by 0.314secs over the 60-minutes of night-time action
• The Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin of Eduardo Barrichello, Jonny Adam and Gray Newell took third position with a best effort of 3m55.621s

LMP2

• AF Corse’s Ben Barnicoat claimed the quickest lap in LMP2 as he stopped the clocks at 3m36.119s in the #183 Oreca-Gibson that he will race alongside François Perrodo and Matthieu Vaxivière at the weekend; they also led the way in the Pro/Am category
• Duqueine Team claimed the second-best time as Doriane Pin lapped 0.7secs shy of the AF Corse car
• CLX Motorsport, with Theodor Jensen aboard, placed third in LMP2 ahead of the pole-sitting IDEC Sport entry, while last year’s victor, the #43 Inter Europol Competition entry and the #14 TDS car completed the top six

The action starts at 12.00 local time on Saturday with the warm-up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which will get underway at 16.00 CEST.

Check out the full FP4 lap times.

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