the top six cars in each category. The top six cars in each class took part in a half-hour shootout on Friday morning, known as "Le Mans Hyperpole". The shootout determined the pole position in each category. Cars were placed on the starting in order by category, with all LMP1s at the front of the field regardless of lap time, followed by LMP2, LMGTE Pro, and LMGTE Am. The cars were placed in following order: the six qualifying Hyperpole vehicles by best Hyperpole session lap time, followed by the rest of the cars in the class that did not qualify for Hyperpole by best lap time set during the first qualifying session. All five entries in the LMP1 class progressed to the Hyperpole portion of qualifying with the fastest lap being a 3 minute, 17.089-second time by Kobayashi in the No. 7 Toyota early in the session. The No. 95 and No. 97 Aston Martin Racing Vantage's of Sørensen and Lynn, along with car No. 51 and No. 71 AF Corse Ferrari's of Davide Rigon and Pier Guidi and the Porsche 911 RSR-19 cars 91 and 92 of Bruni and Christensen progressed to Hyperpole in LMGTE Pro. LMGTE Am saw Gunn's No. 98 Aston Martin Vantage and the 90 TF Sport Vantage of Charlie Eastwood along with Gulf Racing's Ben Barker, the No. 61 Luzich Racing Ferrari of Ledogar, Dempsey-Proton Porsche with car 77 driven by Campbell and the Team Project 1 Porsche with car No. 56 used by Cairoli going through to Hyperpole. In LMP2, the Racing Team Nederland entry of De Vries along with entries from Stevens of the Jackie Chan team, the No. 22 and 32 United Autosports vehicle of Di Resta and Alex Brundle, Vergne's G-Drive No. 26 car and Yamashita's High Class Racing No. 39 car all qualified for the Hyperpole session. Traffic was less of an issue with fewer cars in Hyperpole, allowing for faster lap times. Kobayashi set the fastest lap of 3 minutes, 15.267 seconds for pole position in the No. 7 Toyota on his second lap on a new set of tyres. Nakajima qualified the No. 8 Toyota in second, Menezes' No. 1 Rebellion took third in the quickest non-hybrid car, Deletraz's No. 3 Rebellion was fourth and the Tom Dillmann put the ByKolles team fifth. Kobayashi achieved Toyota's fourth pole position in a row at Le Mans. LMP2 pole position