Cadillac led the way in final practice for the World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain, while the hitherto dominant Toyota team finished in the lower regions of the top 10.
Alex Lynn set a time of 1m49.512s in the factory #2 Chip Ganassi Cadillac V-Series.R after 25 minutes of running to head the order ahead of the #50 Ferrari of Miguel Molina. Although Lynn ended the session almost half a second clear of the field, his time was almost three seconds down on the time with which Kamui Kobayashi set the pace in much cooler conditions in FP2 in the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid.
229 1'50.741 0.215 175.934 7 PORSCHE PENSKE MOTORSPORT HYPERCAR 5 D. Cameron M. Christensen F. Makowiecki Porsche 963 30 +1.423 1'50.935 0.194 175.627 8 Toyota Racing HYPERCAR 8 S. Buemi B. Hartley R. Hirakawa Toyota GR010 - Hybrid 31 +2.258 1'51.770 0.835 174.315 9 Toyota Racing HYPERCAR 7 M. Conway K. Kobayashi J. Lopez Toyota GR010 - Hybrid 30 +2.746 1'52.258 0.488 173.557 10 HERTZ TEAM JOTA HYPERCAR 38 A. Felix da Costa W. Stevens Y. Yifei Porsche 963 29 +3.079 1'52.
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