Antonio Fuoco set two laps ok for pole place aboard the #50 manufacturing facility 499P Le Mans Hypercar on the head of a block-out by the three Ferraris within the 10-minute Hyperpole session.
The Italian jumped to the highest of the occasions with a 1m29.735s earlier than bettering to a 1m29.466s proper on the finish.
Robert Shwartzman discovered seventh-tenths aboard the shopper AF Corse-run entry on his ultimate lap to say second place between the 2 manufacturing facility automobiles.
His 1m29.885s gave him a margin of lower than a tenth forward of Alessandro Pier Guidi within the #51 manufacturing facility entry, which ended up on 1m29.953s.
Better of the remaining behind the Ferraris was Kevin Estre within the #6 Porsche 963 LMDh that triumphed first trip within the WEC this 12 months in Qatar in March.
The Frenchman posted a finest lap of 1m30.101s, which left him six-tenths off the pole.
Matt Campbell adopted him in fifth place regardless of an off at Tamburello initially of the session within the second of the Porsche Penske Motorsport entries.
#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 – Hybrid: Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Nyck de Vries
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The Australian ended up almost three-tenths behind his team-mate on a 1m30.385s.
Kamui Kobayashi took sixth for Toyota in the perfect of the Japanese producer’s GR010 HYBRID LMHs on a 1m30.410s, whereas Rene Rast jumped to seventh in the one WRT BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh to make it by to the Hyperpole session for the quickest 10 automobiles in first qualifying.
The German simply pipped Brendon Hartley within the second of the Toyotas with a 1m30.600s.
Hartley failed to enhance on the finish after spinning at Tosa.
Callum Illot and Julien Andlauer rounded out the highest 10 of their respective Jota and Proton Competition privateer Porsches.
Solely 4 producers made it by the 12-minute first spherical of qualifying.
Behind the second Jota automotive in eleventh place with Phil Hanson on the wheel got here the solo Cadillac V-Collection.R.
#38 Hertz Crew Jota Porsche 963: Jenson Button, Philip Hanson, Oliver Rasmussen
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Alex Lynn improved his time after a purple flag stoppage with slightly below two minutes left on the clock, however it wasn’t sufficient to enhance his place.
The 2 new, 2024-spec Peugeot 9X8 LMHs ended up 14th and fifteenth within the fingers of Stoffel Vandoorne and Jean Eric-Vergne.
They have been only a tenth aside, however almost a second and a half off the tempo.
Lamborghini’s Iron Lynx-run SC63 LMDh took sixteenth place in Mirko Bortolotti’s fingers forward of the pair of Alpine A424 LMDhs certified by Nicolas Lapierre and Paul-Loup Chatin.
Belarusian Aliaksandr Malykhin claimed the LMGT3 pole place aboard the Manthey PureRxcing Porsche 911 GT3-R.
The category winner on the Qatar season-opener in March along with Klaus Bachler and Joel Sturm outpaced Coronary heart of Racing Aston Martin driver Ian James by almost seven-tenths of a second with a 1m42.365s.
A 1m43.058s from James within the Aston Vantage GT3 was sufficient to present him a margin of 4 hundredths over Ahmad Al Harthy in the perfect of the WRT BMW M4 GT3s.
#31 Crew WRT BMW M4 LMGT3: Darren Leung, Sean Gelael, Augusto Farfus
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The Omani driver was in flip simply six thousandths forward of WRT team-mate Darren Leung in fourth with a 1m43.105s.
Sarah Bovy took fifth place within the Iron Dames Lamborghini Huracan EVO2 in entrance of the Ford Mustang GT3 pushed by Giorgio Roda.
Seven of the 9 producers represented in LMGT3 made it by the primary spherical of qualifying into the Hyperpole session.
Among the many casualties was the TF Sport Chevrolet Corvette squad that topped two of the trio of free apply periods and took pole at Qatar.
The Imola 6 Hours, spherical two of the 2024 WEC, begins at 13:00 on Sunday.