| 1st | 62T | Jean-Louis Schlesser / Jean-Pierre Jabouille / Alain Cudini | Sauber-Mercedes C9/88 | Team Sauber Mercedes | 3:15.0400 | 249.8260 |
| 2nd | 61 | Mauro Baldi / Gianfranco Brancatelli / Kenny Acheson | Sauber-Mercedes C9/88 | Team Sauber Mercedes | 3:15.6700 | |
| 3rd | 1 | Jan Lammers / Patrick Tambay / Andrew Gilbert-Scott | Jaguar XJR-9 LM | Silk Cut Jaguar | 3:18.3500 | |
| 4th | 3 | Davy Jones / Derek Daly / Jeff Kline | Jaguar XJR-9 LM | Silk Cut Jaguar | 3:19.4800 | |
| 5th | 9 | Hans-Joachim Stuck / Bob Wollek | Porsche 962 C | Joest Racing | 3:19.8000 | |
| 6th | 4 | Alain Ferté / Eliseo Salazar / Michel Ferté | Jaguar XJR-9 LM | Silk Cut Jaguar | 3:20.1900 | |
| 7th | 17 | Oscar Larrauri / Walter Brun / Jésus Pareja | Porsche 962 C | Brun Motorsport | 3:20.2600 | |
| 8th | 2 | John Nielsen / Andy Wallace / Price Cobb | Jaguar XJR-9 LM | Silk Cut Jaguar | 3:20.6500 | |
| 9th | 5 | Akihiko Nakaya / Harald Grohs / Sarel van der Merwe | Porsche 962 C | Brun Motorsport | 3:21.5100 | |
| 10th | 11 | George Fouché / Hideki Okada / Masanori Sekiya | Porsche 962 CK6 | Porsche Kremer Racing | 3:22.7000 | |
| 11th | 63 | Jochen Mass / Manuel Reuter / Stanley Dickens | Sauber-Mercedes C9/88 | Team Sauber Mercedes | 3:22.8600 | |
| 12th | 24 | Julian Bailey / Mark Blundell / Martin Donnelly | Nissan R89C | Nissan Motorsport | 3:24.0900 | |
| 13th | 7 | Frank Jelinski / Pierre-Henri Raphanel / "John Winter" | Porsche 962 C | Joest Racing | 3:24.7700 | |
| 14th | 10 | Kunimitsu Takahashi / Bruno Giacomelli / Giovanni Lavaggi | Porsche 962 CK6 | Porsche Kremer Racing | 3:24.9200 | |
| 15th | 25 | Geoff Brabham / Chip Robinson / Arie Luyendyk | Nissan R89C | Nissan Motorsport | 3:25.3800 | |
| 16th | 202 | Takashi Yorino / Hervé Regout / Elliot Forbes-Robinson | Mazda 767B | Mazdaspeed | 3:25.4500 | 237.1670 |
| 17th | 37 | Geoff Lees / Johnny Dumfries / John Watson | Toyota 89C-V | Toyota Team Tom's | 3:25.6000 | |
| 18th | 55 | Vern Schuppan / Eje Elgh / Gary Brabham | Porsche 962 C | Team Schuppan | 3:26.8900 | |
| 19th | 23 | Masahiro Hasemi / Kazuyoshi Hoshino / Toshio Suzuki | Nissan R89C | Nissan Motorsport | 3:26.9500 | |
| 20th | 6 | Roland Ratzenberger / Walter Lechner / Maurizio Sandro Sala | Porsche 962 C | Brun Motorsport | 3:27.0700 | |
| 21st | 14 | Derek Bell / James Weaver / Tiff Needell | Porsche 962 C GTi | Richard Lloyd Racing | 3:27.7500 | |
| 22nd | 33 | Will Hoy / Jean Alesi / Dominic Dobson | Porsche 962 C | Team Schuppan | 3:27.7900 | |
| 23rd | 15 | Steven Andskar / David Hobbs / Damon Hill | Porsche 962 C GTi | Richard Lloyd Racing | 3:27.9700 | |
| 24th | 36 | Hitoshi Ogawa / Paolo Barilla / Ross Cheever | Toyota 89C-V | Toyota Team Tom's | 3:28.3200 | |
| 25th | 38 | Kaoru Hoshino / Didier Artzet / Keiichi Suzuki | Toyota 88C | Toyota Team Tom's | 3:28.6400 | |
| 26th | 27 | Franz Konrad / Rudi Seher / Andres Vilarino | Porsche 962 C | Brun Motorsport | 3:29.4100 | |
| 27th | 16 | Uwe Schäfer / Harald Huysman / Dominique Lacaud | Porsche 962 C | Brun Motorsport | 3:29.9000 | |
| 28th | 201 | Pierre Dieudonné / David Kennedy / Chris Hodgetts | Mazda 767B | Mazdaspeed | 3:31.3800 | 220.1010 |
| 29th | 13 | Pascal Fabre / Jean-Louis Bousquet / Jiro Yoneyama | Cougar C22LM Porsche | Courage Competition | 3:31.4900 | |
| 30th | 72 | Pierre Yver / Paul Belmondo / Jürgen Lässig | Porsche 962 C | Obermaier Racing/Primagaz | 3:32.0000 | |
| 31st | 21 | Ray Bellm / Lyn St. James / Gordon Spice | Spice SE89C Ford | Spice Engineering | 3:32.5400 | |
| 32nd | 18 | Costas Los / Brian Redman / Michael Roe | Aston Martin AMR1 | Aston Martin | 3:34.0800 | |
| 33rd | 8 | Henri Pescarolo / Jean-Louis Ricci / Claude Ballot-Léna | Porsche 962 C | Joest Racing | 3:35.4200 | |
| 34th | 203 | Yojiro Terada / Volker Weidler / Marc Duez | Mazda 767 | Mazdaspeed | 3:36.6900 | 224.8650 |
| 35th | 34 | Jacques Alméras / Jean-Marie Alméras / Alain Ianetta | Porsche 962 C | Equipe Alméras Frères | 3:36.9100 | |
| 36th | 22 | Wayne Taylor / Thorkild Thyrring / Tim Harvey | Spice SE89C Ford | Spice Engineering | 3:38.4700 | |
| 37th | 104 | Jean-Philippe Grand / Remy Pochauvin / Jean-Luc Roy | Spice SE89C Ford | Graff Racing | 3:38.7000 | |
| 38th | 12 | Bernard de Dryver / Patrick Gonin / Bernard Santal | Cougar C22LM Porsche | Courage Competition | 3:38.7400 | |
| 39th | 32 | Takao Wada / Akio Morimoto / Anders Olofsson | Cougar Nissan R88V | Courage Competition | 3:39.9100 | |
| 40th | 19 | David Sears / David Leslie / Ray Mallock | Aston Martin AMR1 | Aston Martin | 3:40.1100 | |
| 41st | 101 | Luigi Taverna / Nick Adams / Fermin Velez | Spice SE89C Ford | Chamberlain Engineering | 3:41.0400 | |
| 42nd | 151 | Pierre-Alain Lombardi / Bruno Sotty / Fabio Magnani | Spice SE86C Ford | Pierre-Alain Lombardi | 3:41.9400 | |
| 43rd | 20 | Tim Lee-Davey / Tom Dodd-Noble / Katsunori Iketani | Porsche 962 C | Team Davey | 3:42.3100 | |
| 44th | 52 | Pascal Pessiot / Jean-Daniel Raulet / Philippe Gache | WM P489 Peugeot | WM Secateva | 3:44.0000 | |
| 45th | 103 | Bernard Thuner / Pierre de Thoisy / Raymond Touroul | Spice SE88C Ford | France Prototeam | 3:44.4400 | |
| 46th | 102 | John Hotchkis, Jr. / John Hotchkis / Richard Jones | Spice SE86C Hart | Chamberlain Engineering | 3:44.9900 | |
| 47th | 171 | Robbie Stirling / Ross Hyett / Don Shead | Spice SE88C Ford | Team Mako | 3:45.4500 | |
| 48th | 113 | Jean-Claude Andruet / Philippe Farjon / Syunji Kasuya | Cougar C20LM Porsche | Courage Competition | 3:45.8600 | |
| 49th | 108 | Dudley Wood / Philippe de Henning / Evan Clements | Spice SE87C Ford | GP Motorsport | 3:46.2300 | |
| 50th | 107 | Max Cohen-Olivar / John Sheldon / Robin Donovan | Tiga GC289 Ford | Tiga Race Team | 3:47.0300 | |
| 51st | 106 | Stefano Sebastiani / Vito Veninata / Robin Smith | Tiga GC288/9 Ford | Porto Kaleo Team | 3:48.2700 | |
| 52nd | 175 | Lawrence Bristow / Ian Harrower / Colin Pool | ADA 02B Ford | ADA Engineering | 3:48.8000 | |
| 53rd | 126 | Jean Messaoudi / Pierre-François Rousselot / Thierry Lecerf | Argo JM19C Ford | France Prototeam | 3:50.3700 | |
| 54th | 105 | Jean-Claude Justice / Noël del Bello / Jean-Claude Ferrarin | Tiga GC289 Ford | Porto Kaleo/Noel del Bello | 3:50.8200 | |
| 55th | 177 | Alain Serpaggi / Yves Hervalet / Louis Descartes | ALD C289 Ford | Automobiles Louis Descartes | 3:55.3600 | |
| 56th | 178 | Didier Bonnet / Gérard Tremblay / Gérard Cuynet | ALD 05 BMW | Didier Bonnet | 3:58.4900 | |
| 57th | 29 | Almo Coppelli / Franco Scapini | Lancia LC2/89 | Mussato Action Car | 3:59.4600 | |
| 58th | 176 | Thierry Serfaty / Sylvain Boulay | ALD 04 BMW | Louis Descartes | 4:03.8400 | |
| 59th | 179 | Jean-Luc Colin / François Cardon | ALD 06 BMW | Didier Bonnet | 4:25.3500 | |