Cadillac Hertz Team Jota’s Alex Lynn is the overnight provisional polesitter for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, after going fastest in Wednesday evening’s qualifying session.

In the Hypercar class, it was all about making it into the top 15 to secure a spot in tomorrow’s Hyperpole session, the fight for pole.

What qualifying determined was grid positions 16 through 21, and there were certainly some surprise eliminations.

In Hypercar, Lynn ended the 30-minute session on top with a time of 3:22.847s, over a second faster than last year’s pole time.

Dries Vanthoor in the #15 Team WRT BMW was just 0.04s slower, with the #51 AF Corse Ferrari of Antonio Giovinazzi third. Porsche Penske Motorsport made it four brands in the top four with Frenchman Kevin Estre fourth in the #6 963 Porsche he shares with Aussie Campbell.

At the other end of the leaderboard, the most notable absentee from Hyperpole was the #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 driven by Nyck de Vries down in 17th.

The Dutch driver was just inside the bubble until the final two minutes of the session, when the Aston Martin of Marco Sorensen knocked him out.

Sorensen himself was pushed out right at the death by the third #4 Porsche 963, driven by ex-F1 driver Felipe Nasr.

The Peugeot drivers lacked one-lap pace in qualifying. Stoffel Vandoorne was the best of the pair, 2.39s off the pace. He qualified 18th while teammate Jean-Eric Vergne was one place behind.

Neel Jani in the privately run Proton Competition Porsche 963 qualified in 20^th, while the other Aston Martin, the #007, will bring up the rear of the 21-car grid.

Results: 24 Hours of Le Mans Qualifying, Hypercar

In Hypercar, the top 15 cars will battle for pole position. However, in LMP2 and LMGT3 just the 12 quickest cars will fight for pole position on Friday (AEST).

LMGT3 qualifying proved tough for a majority of the Australians, with only one of the four making it through to tomorrow’s Hyperpole session.

Aussie Martin Berry in the #61 Iron Lynx Mercedes-AMG made the cut. He snuck through in 11th position, however, his teammates did not fare so well.

After Stephen Grove’s sizable shunt in Free Practice 1, he, Brenton Grove and Luca Stolz missed qualifying and are still making repairs ahead of Free Practice 2.

The car will start on the back row with the sister #60 Iron Lynx car, Andrew Gilbert came to a halt out of the Dunlop Chicane and caused a mid-session red flag.

The other Australian, Yasser Shahin, also missed out on a Hyperpole shot. He qualified The Bend Team WRT BMW M4 in 16th position. Shahin’s teammate Ahmad Al Harthy topped the session, 2.2s up the road.

The #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage was second and the #92 Manthey Porsche 911 third.

Incredibly, all nine GT3 brands made Hyperpole: BMW, Aston Martin, Porsche, Lexus, Corvette, Ford, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes.

Louis Deletraz was fastest in LMP2, only 2.1s separated the crucial top 12.

Most notably former Le Mans 24 Hours winner Andre Lotterer missed out, qualifying 14th in the #18 IDEC Sport car.

Ahead will start the #11 Proton Competition and behind him the #9 Iron Lynx, #34 Inter Europol Competition machine (which picked up a mid-session puncture) and the #24 Nielsen Racing Car.

The next session is Practice 2, the first night-time running for competitors, it commences at 6:00am AEST (Thursday).

Results: 24 Hours of Le Mans Qualifying, LMP2 & LMGT3