The first Free Practice session saw the no34 Racing Team Turkey Oreca-Gibson post the fastest time of the 90-minute session.
Logan Sargeant, who took the pole position for the 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring on his ELMS debut for the Turkish flagged team, posted a 1m38.054 lap, 0.292s ahead of the no26 G-Drive Racing Aurus and the no41 Orlen Team WRT Oreca. Franco Colapinto and Louis Deletraz both posted an identical 1m38.346 lap time, with Colapinto posting his lap first.
A red flag was shown halfway through the session when the no37 Cool Racing Oreca spun off at Turn 7 and hit the barriers, coming to rest in the middle of the track.Antonin Borga climbed out of the car unaided.After the debris was cleared from the track, and the barriers repaired by the marshals, the session resumed.
The no4 DKR Engineering Duqueine of 4 Hours of Le Castellet winner Laurents Hörr took the fastest time in LMP3 with a 1m43.683, 0.318s ahead of reigning champion Wayne Boyd in the no2 United Autosports Ligier and a further tenth of a second ahead of the no20 Team Virage Ligier of Garett Grist.
The no88 AF Corse Ferrari took the top spot in LMGTE with Italian Alessio Rovera enjoying the first run on his home track to post a 1m47.441, just 0.073s ahead of the no80 Iron Lynx Ferrari after Miguel Molina set a 1m47.514.Alessandro Pier Guidi made it a Ferrari 1-2-3, the 2017 FIA World GT Champion standing in for Matt Griffin and posting the third fastest time of 1m47.762 in the no55 Spirit of Race 488.
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