The two Porsche 919 Hybrids start from second row on the grid. The reigning World Champions, Timo Bernhard (DE), Brendon Hartley (NZ) and Mark Webber (AU), qualified third ahead of their teammates Romain Dumas (FR), Neel Jani (CH) and Marc Lieb (DE). In GTE Pro category, Richard Lietz and Michael Christensen set second best average time with the Porsche 911 RSR.