| 1st | 27 | Hideki Okada / Stanley Dickens | Porsche 962 C | From A Racing | 1:18.2100 |
| 2nd | 32 | Masahiro Hasemi / Aguri Suzuki | Nissan R88C | Nissan Motorsports | 1:18.2850 |
| 3rd | 62 | Mauro Baldi / Philippe Streiff | Sauber-Mercedes C9/88 | Team Sauber Mercedes | 1:18.3900 |
| 4th | 17 | Price Cobb / Klaus Ludwig | Porsche 962 C | Omron Porsche AG | 1:18.5900 |
| 5th | 36 | Geoff Lees / Masanori Sekiya / Keiichi Suzuki | Toyota 88C-V | Toyota Team Tom's | 1:19.3600 |
| 6th | 2 | Jan Lammers / Johnny Dumfries | Jaguar XJR-9 | Silk Cut Jaguar | 1:19.7560 |
| 7th | 1 | Martin Brundle / Eddie Cheever | Jaguar XJR-9 | Silk Cut Jaguar | 1:19.8150 |
| 8th | 61 | Jean-Louis Schlesser / Jochen Mass / Kenny Acheson | Sauber-Mercedes C9/88 | Team Sauber Mercedes | 1:20.0020 |
| 9th | 8 | Frank Jelinski / "John Winter" | Porsche 962 C | Joest Racing | 1:20.4210 |
| 10th | 100 | George Fouché / Vern Schuppan / Sarel van der Merwe | Porsche 962 C GTi | Trust Racing Team | 1:20.5060 |
| 11th | 23 | Kazuyoshi Hoshino / Kenji Takahashi / Allan Grice | Nissan R88C | Nissan Motorsports | 1:20.6490 |
| 12th | 25 | Kunimitsu Takahashi / Kazuo Mogi | Porsche 962 C | Advan Alpha Nova | 1:21.1680 |
| 13th | 33 | Derek Bell / Brian Redman | Porsche 962 C | Takefuji Racing Team | 1:21.5450 |
| 14th | 99 | Eje Elgh / Maurizio Sandro Sala | Porsche 962 C | Rothmans Porsche Team Schuppan | 1:21.6180 |
| 15th | 86 | Takao Wada / Anders Olofsson | March 88S Nissan | Italya Racing Team (Team Le Mans) | 1:21.7770 |
| 16th | 37 | Stefan Johansson / Paolo Barilla / Hitoshi Ogawa | Toyota 88C-V | Toyota Team Tom's | 1:21.8000 |
| 17th | 201 | Pierre Dieudonné / Takashi Yorino / Yoshimi Katayama | Mazda 767 | Mazdaspeed | 1:21.8440 |
| 18th | 7 | Bob Wollek / Harald Grohs | Porsche 962 C | Joest Racing | 1:22.1960 |
| 19th | 77 | Tiff Needell / Gianpiero Moretti / Harald Huysman | Porsche 962 C | Memorex Telex Racing Team | 1:22.2050 |
| 20th | 11 | Oscar Larrauri / Bruno Giacomelli | Porsche 962 CK6 | Leyton House with Porsche Kremer | 1:22.4430 |
| 21st | 10 | Volker Weidler / Manuel Reuter | Porsche 962 CK6 | Porsche Kremer Racing | 1:23.0770 |
| 22nd | 28 | Naoki Nagasaka / Kaoru Hoshino / Masahiko Kageyama | Porsche 962 C | Leyton House Racing Team | 1:23.4410 |
| 23rd | 202 | Yojiro Terada / David Kennedy | Mazda 767 | Mazdaspeed | 1:24.1860 |
| 24th | 85 | Toshio Suzuki / Akio Morimoto | March 88S Nissan | Person's Racing Team (Team Le Mans) | 1:24.5410 |
| 25th | 45 | Andrew Gilbert-Scott / Steven Andskar | Toyota 87C | Auto Beaurex Motorsport | 1:24.5750 |
| 26th | 111 | Gordon Spice / Ray Bellm | Spice SE88C Ford | BP Spice Engineering | 1:24.8440 |
| 27th | 103 | Eliseo Salazar / Thorkild Thyrring | Spice SE88C Ford | BP Spice Engineering | 1:25.5570 |
| 28th | 107 | Jean-Louis Ricci / Claude Ballot-Léna / Ian Khan | Spice SE88C Ford | Chamberlain Engineering | 1:25.8080 |
| 29th | 50 | Martin Donnelly / Jochen Dauer / Syuuroku Sasaki | SARD MC88S Toyota | SARD | 1:26.1270 |
| 30th | 121 | Costas Los / Tom Hessert | Spice SE87C Ford | Cosmik GPM | 1:26.5210 |
| 31st | 171 | Hideo Fukuyama / Jiro Yoneyama / Kiyoshi Misaki | JTK 63C Ford | British Barn Racing Team | 1:26.9360 |
| 32nd | 127 | Arthur Abrahams / Dan Murphy / Ian Khan | Spice SE86C Hart | Chamberlain Engineering | 1:28.5930 |
| 33rd | 106 | Ranieri Randaccio / Vito Veninata | Tiga GC288 Ford | Kelmar | 1:28.6910 |
| 34th | 20 | Tim Lee-Davey / Tom Dodd-Noble / Katsunori Iketani | Porsche 962 C | Team Davey | 1:30.3740 |
| 35th | 230 | Tetsuji Shiratori / Syuuji Fujii / Terumitsu Fujieda | Mazda 757 | Shizumatsu Racing | 1:32.6090 |