Audi topped the third and final practice session for the WEC 6 Hours of Shanghai, Oliver Jarvis putting the #8 machine three tenths clear of the leading Toyota.

Once again, the hybrid LMP1 cars all set their quickest times in the opening minutes of the hour-long session, with Jarvis heading the charge on a 1m44.505s, 0.089s up on the Friday benchmark set by Porsche driver Brendon Hartley.

That was enough to head Stephane Sarrazin in the #6 Toyota TS050 Hybrid by 0.314s, with Porsche making it three different manufacturers in the top three thanks to Marc Lieb's early effort of 1m44.913s in the #2 machine, four tenths behind Jarvis.

Benoit Treluyer put the second of the Audi R18 e-tron quattros in fourth, 0.474s down on the sister #8 car, half a second ahead of Hartley in the #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid, which was fifth fastest after sweeping the timesheets on Friday.

The second Toyota, the #5, was forced into the pits at the start of the session, and could only record the sixth quickest time - 1.158s off the pace - when it returned to the track in Sebastien Buemi's hands.

Rebellion regained the upper hand over ByKolles in the duel for LMP1-L honours by eight tenths.

Signatech, Ford in the ascendancy

In LMP2, it was the points-leading #36 Signatech Alpine, wheeled by Nicolas Lapierre, that set the pace with a 1m54.355s - albeit a mere 0.005s up on the #30 ESM Ligier of Antonio Giovinazzi.

RGR Sport by Morand made it two Ligiers in the class top three thanks to Bruno Senna, who was a further second back in third place.

G-Drive, which led the way in both Friday session, was only fifth fastest, 1.3s down on the #36 car.

The order in GTE-Pro was also totally different to Friday, as Ford established supremacy over its class rivals thanks to a late flyer from Olivier Pla, who set the pace with a 2m01.329s in the #66.

Aston Martin took second and third places, Richie Stanaway in the #97 leading Nicki Thiim in the #95, followed by the second of the Chip Ganassi-run Fords.

Ferrari meanwhile went from being GTE pacesetters to also-rans, occupying fifth and sixth places in class.

In GTE-Am, Pedro Lamy's time of 2m03.845s ensured the #98 Aston Martin led the way.

Third practice results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	8	Lucas di Grassi Loic Duval Oliver Jarvis	Audi R18	LMP1	1'44.505
2	6	Stéphane Sarrazin Kamui Kobayashi Mike Conway	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'44.819	0.314
3	2	Romain Dumas Neel Jani Marc Lieb	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'44.913	0.408
4	7	Andre Lotterer Marcel Fassler Benoit Tréluyer	Audi R18	LMP1	1'44.979	0.474
5	1	Mark Webber Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'45.418	0.913
6	5	Anthony Davidson Kazuki Nakajima Sébastien Buemi	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'45.663	1.158
7	13	Alexandre Imperatori Dominik Kraihamer Matheo Tuscher	Rebellion R-One	LMP1	1'50.748	6.243
8	4	Simon Trummer Oliver Webb Pierre Kaffer	CLM P1/01	LMP1	1'51.602	7.097
9	36	Nicolas Lapierre Gustavo Menezes Stéphane Richelmi	Alpine A460	LMP2	1'54.355	9.850
10	30	Sean Gelael Antonio Giovinazzi Tom Blomqvist	Ligier JS P2	LMP2	1'54.360	9.855
11	43	Bruno Senna Ricardo Gonzalez Filipe Albuquerque	Ligier JS P2	LMP2	1'55.472	10.967
12	35	Paul-Loup Chatin Ho-Pin Tung David Cheng	Alpine A460	LMP2	1'55.559	11.054
13	26	Will Stevens Roman Rusinov Alex Brundle	Oreca 05	LMP2	1'55.604	11.099
14	31	Pipo Derani Ryan Dalziel Chris Cumming	Ligier JS P2	LMP2	1'55.865	11.360
15	27	Maurizio Mediani Nicolas Minassian Mikhail Aleshin	BR01	LMP2	1'56.046	11.541
16	44	Richard Bradley Matthew Rao Alex Lynn	Oreca 05	LMP2	1'56.615	12.110
17	37	Vitaly Petrov Viktor Shaytar Kirill Ladygin	BR01	LMP2	1'56.703	12.198
18	45	Mathias Beche Tor Graves Roberto Gonzalez	Oreca 05	LMP2	1'56.742	12.237
19	66	Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	2'01.329	16.824
20	97	Darren Turner Richie Stanaway	Aston Martin Vantage V8	LMGTE PRO	2'02.044	17.539
21	95	Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage V8	LMGTE PRO	2'02.393	17.888
22	67	Harry Tincknell Andy Priaulx	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	2'02.505	18.000
23	71	Sam Bird Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	2'02.728	18.223
24	51	Gianmaria Bruni James Calado	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	2'03.047	18.542
25	98	Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda	Aston Martin Vantage V8	LMGTE AM	2'03.845	19.340
26	77	Richard Lietz Michael Christensen	Porsche 911 RSR (2016)	LMGTE PRO	2'03.900	19.395
27	83	François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Rui Aguas	Ferrari F458 Italia	LMGTE AM	2'04.179	19.674
28	50	Pierre Ragues Ricky Taylor Romain Brandela	Chevrolet Corvette C7-Z06	LMGTE AM	2'04.326	19.821
29	88	David Heinemeier Hansson Patrick Long Khaled Al Qubaisi	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	2'05.007	20.502
30	86	Michael Wainwright Adam Carroll Ben Barker	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	2'05.224	20.719
31	78	Christian Ried Wolf Henzler Joel Camathias	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	2'06.358	21.853