| 1st | 5 | Seiji Ara / Tom Kristensen | Audi R8 | Audi Japan Team Goh | 1:27.8980 |
| 2nd | 8 | Jan Lammers / Andy Wallace | Dome S101 Judd | Racing For Holland | 1:28.3800 |
| 3rd | 4 | Jamie Campbell-Walter / Nathan Kinch / Tom Coronel | Lister Storm LMP | Lister Racing | 1:29.0560 |
| 4th | 9 | Phil Andrews / Justin Keen / Giovanni Lavaggi | Lola B2K/10B Judd | Taurus Racing | 1:29.1020 |
| 5th | 14 | Thomas Erdos / Mike Newton / Chris Goodwin | MG Lola EX257 | RML | 1:29.5330 |
| 6th | 2 | Stéphane Sarrazin / Franck Lagorce / Sébastien Bourdais | Courage C60 Evo Peugeot | Pescarolo Sport | 1:29.9320 |
| 7th | 18 | Jon Field / Larry Connor / Duncan Dayton | Lola B160 Judd | Intersport Racing Field | 1:29.9690 |
| 8th | 10 | Olivier Beretta / David Saelens | Panoz GTR-1 Elan | JML Team Panoz | 1:31.4800 |
| 9th | 13 | Wim Eyckmans / Roman Rusinov / Enrico Muscioni | Courage C65 JPX | Courage Compétition | 1:31.8790 |
| 10th | 7 | Earl Goddard / Martin Short / Warren Carway | Reynard 01Q Ford | Fred Goddard | 1:32.2360 |
| 11th | 6 | Clint Field / Rick Sutherland / John Graham | Riley & Scott Mk III C Ford | Intersport Racing | 1:34.7570 |
| 12th | 66 | Wolfgang Kaufmann / Toni Seiler / Franz Konrad | Saleen S7-R | Konrad Motorsport | 1:36.8320 |
| 13th | 15 | Renaud Derlot / Roland Bossy | Debora LMP200 BMW | Didier Bonnet | 1:36.8320 |
| 14th | 24 | Olivier Porta / Richard Balandras / Yojiro Terada | WR LM 2001 Peugeot | Rachel Welter | 1:37.4090 |
| 15th | 25 | Jean-René de Fournoux / William David / Bastien Brière | WR LMP-02 | Gérard Welter | 1:38.2290 |
| 16th | 80 | Peter Kox / Tim Sugden | Ferrari 550 Maranello | Care Racing | 1:38.3240 |
| 17th | 86 | Christophe Bouchut / Vincent Vosse / Sébastien Dumez | Chrysler Viper GTS-R | Larbre Compétition | 1:38.9450 |
| 18th | 12 | Marc Rostan / Pierre Bruneau | Pilbeam MP84 Nissan | Pierre Bruneau | 1:40.3920 |
| 19th | 39 | Stéphane Ortelli / Stéphane Daoudi / Alex Vasiliev / *Romain Dumas | Porsche 996 GT3-RS | Freisinger Motorsport | 1:40.5260 |
| 20th | 40 | Johnny Mowlem / Alex Caffi / Gabrio Rosa | Porsche 996 GT3-RS | Seikel Motorsport | 1:40.9450 |
| 21st | 47 | Philipp Peter / Andrea Montermini / Klaus Engelhorn | Ferrari 360 Modena GT | Cirtek Motorsport | 1:41.0830 |
| 22nd | 30 | Tim Mullen / Marino Franchitti / Chris Niarchos / *Lewis Carter | Ferrari 360 Modena GT | Scuderia Ecosse | 1:41.3570 |
| 23rd | 38 | Robin Liddell / Jean-Philippe Belloc | Porsche 996 GT3-R | PK Sport Ltd. | 1:41.6260 |
| 24th | 36 | Xavier Pompidou / Emmanuel Collard | Porsche 996 GT3-R | Sebah QM Engineering | 1:41.8990 |
| 25th | 46 | Michael Caine / Richard Stanton / Bob Berridge | TVR Tuscan T400R | Dewalt-Racesports Salesbury | 1:41.9280 |
| 26th | 33 | Sylvain Noël / Christophe Tinseau | Porsche 996 GT3-RS | Bernard Jubin | 1:43.8850 |
| 27th | 49 | Neil Cunningham / Adam Sharpe | Morgan Aero 8 GTN | The Morgan Motor Co. | 1:44.0420 |
| 28th | 32 | Peter van Merksteijn / Frans Munsterhuis | Porsche 996 GT3-RS | System Force Motorsport | 1:44.4460 |
| 29th | 44 | Patrick van Schoote / Norman Simon | Spyker C8 Double 12R | Spyker Automobilien | 1:45.3020 |
| 30th | 45 | Amanda Stretton / Fanny Duchateau / Liz Halliday | TVR Tuscan T400R | Dewalt-Racesports Salesbury | 1:45.3630 |
| 31st | 35 | Gilles Vannelet / Bernard Rousselot / Gaël Lesoudier | Ferrari 550 Maranello | XL Racing | 1:45.8520 |
| 32nd | 34 | Jean-Luc Maury-Laribiére / Patrick Caternet / Philip Collin | Porsche 996 GT3-RS | Noël del Bello | 1:47.2190 |
| 33rd | 42 | Georges Forgeois / Paul Daniels / Wim Coekelberghs | Porsche 996 GT3-RS | T2M Motorsport | 1:49.2450 |
| 34th | 48 | Bruno Houzelot / Denis Cohignac / André-Alain Corbel | Porsche 996 GT3-R | Olivier Baron | 1:49.4450 |