The drivers of the #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid beat the best of the Toyotas to the top of the timesheets by nearly three tenths of a second. 

Tandy had trailed Mike Conway in the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid by more than a second in the first runs after making a mistake on his lap. 

Jani then posted the fastest time of the session with a 1m39.084s, which prompted Porsche to send Tandy back out for a second run.

The Briton improved to a 1m39.683s, which gave the #1 Porsche an average of 1m39.383s.

Jose Maria Lopez was nearly seven tenths slower than Jani, which left the #7 Toyota in second with a 1m39.646s average.

Tandy said: "It was Neel's lap that made us think let's go for pole — when I saw 39.0, I thought wow. What a great result for a our last weekend."

Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard took third place with a 1m40.011s average, while Kazuki Nakajima and Anthony Davidson were fourth in the Toyota that has won the past two WEC rounds. 

Andre Negrao and Gustavo Menezes took LMP2 pole for the Signatech Alpine squad.  

Negrao was second fastest after the first runs aboard the French team's Oreca-Gibson 07 while Menezes lapped within three tenths of his team-mate's time. 

That consistency gave them a 1m47.227s average and pole by fourth tenths. 

Ho-Pin Tung struggled in the best of the Jackie Chan DC Racing Orecas on the first runs, but Thomas Laurent was able to leapfrog the car up to second after setting the quickest lap of the second batch of drivers. 

Their average of 1m47.612s put them just over a tenth up on the championship-leading Rebellion Oreca qualified by Bruno Senna and Julien Canal. 

Ferrari on pole for GTE decider

AF Corse Ferrari drivers Davide Rigon and Sam Bird claimed a fourth GTE Pro pole of the year. 

Rigon posted the fastest time in class witha 1m56.021s in the first runs and then Bird was only a couple of hundredths slower as they ended up on a 1m59.033s average aboard the #71 Ferrari 488 GTE.

That put them three tenths up on Aston Martin duo Darren Turner and Jonny Adam, who claimed second position with a 1m56.372s average. 

Ford's Andy Priaulx and Harry Tincknell were the highest-placed pairing with a realistic chance of taking the title in third place.

Their average in the #67 Ganassi Ford GT ended up on a 1m56.463s average, which put them four tenths up on points leaders James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi in the #51 Ferrari. 

Frederic Makowiecki and Richard Lietz, who lie second in the points, were only sixth fastest in their factory Porsche 911 RSR.

Pedro Lamy and Paul Dalla Lana took a seventh GTE Am class pole of the season in their Aston Martin Vantage GTE. 

Prototype results:

Pos.	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	1	Andre Lotterer   Neel Jani   Nick Tandy	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'39.383
2	7	Kamui Kobayashi   Mike Conway   Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'39.646	0.263
3	2	Timo Bernhard   Brendon Hartley   Earl Bamber	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'40.011	0.628
4	8	Anthony Davidson   Kazuki Nakajima   Sébastien Buemi	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'40.774	1.391
5	36	Nicolas Lapierre   Andre Negrao   Gustavo Menezes	Alpine A470	LMP2	1'47.227	7.844
6	38	Oliver Jarvis   Ho-Pin Tung   Thomas Laurent	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'47.612	8.229
7	31	Bruno Senna   Julien Canal   Nicolas Prost	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'47.721	8.338
8	26	Loic Duval   Roman Rusinov   Leo Roussel	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'47.989	8.606
9	25	Vitaly Petrov   Simon Trummer   Roberto Gonzalez	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'48.176	8.793
10	24	Jean-Eric Vergne   Ben Hanley   Matt Rao	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'48.374	8.991
11	28	François Perrodo   Emmanuel Collard   Matthieu Vaxiviere	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'48.386	9.003
12	13	Nelson Piquet Jr.   David Heinemeier Hansson   Mathias Beche	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'48.387	9.004
13	37	David Cheng   Tristan Gommendy   Alex Brundle	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'49.102	9.719

GTE results:

Pos.	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Avg Time	Gap
1	71	Sam Bird   Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	1'56.033
2	97	Darren Turner   Jonathan Adam	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	1'56.372	0.339
3	67	Harry Tincknell   Andy Priaulx	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	1'56.463	0.430
4	51	James Calado   Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	1'56.881	0.848
5	95	Marco Sorensen   Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	1'57.019	0.986
6	91	Richard Lietz   Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	1'57.516	1.483
7	92	Michael Christensen   Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	1'57.522	1.489
8	66	Stefan Mücke   Olivier Pla	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	1'57.588	1.555
9	98	Pedro Lamy   Paul Dalla Lana   Mathias Lauda	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE AM	2'00.111	4.078
10	61	Matt Griffin   Mok Weng Sun   Keita Sawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	2'00.285	4.252
11	77	Christian Ried   Matteo Cairoli   Marvin Dienst	Porsche 911 RSR (991)	LMGTE AM	2'00.395	4.362
12	54	Francesco Castellacci   Miguel Molina   Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	2'01.352	5.319
13	86	Michael Wainwright   Ben Barker   Nick Foster	Porsche 911 RSR (991)	LMGTE AM