| 12 | Klaus Ludwig / Bernd Mayländer | Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR | AMG Mercedes | 1:56.023 |
| 11 | Bernd Schneider / Alexander Wurz / Aguri Suzuki | Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR | AMG Mercedes | 1:56.330 |
| 10 | Alessandro Nannini / Marcel Tiemann / Bernd Schneider | Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR | AMG Mercedes | 1:57.321 |
| 8 | J.J. Lehto / Steve Soper | McLaren F1 GTR BMW | Team BMW Motorsport | 1:58.807 |
| 44 | Keiichi Tsuchiya / Masanori Sekiya / Akihiko Nakaya | McLaren F1 GTR BMW | Team Lark McLaren | 1:58.909 |
| 1 | Geoff Lees / Andrew Gilbert-Scott / John Nielsen | McLaren F1 GTR BMW | Gulf Team Davidoff/GTC | 1:59.061 |
| 9 | Peter Kox / Roberto Ravaglia | McLaren F1 GTR BMW | Team BMW Motorsport | 1:59.420 |
| 7 | Pedro Lamy / Yannick Dalmas / Allan McNish | Porsche 911 GT1 Evo | Porsche AG | 2:01.158 |
| 4 | Andy Wallace / James Weaver / Butch Leitzinger | Panoz GTR-1 Ford | David Price Racing | 2:01.279 |
| 3 | Pierre-Henri Raphanel / Anders Olofsson / Jean-Marc Gounon | McLaren F1 GTR BMW | Gulf Team Davidoff/GTC | 2:02.366 |
| 27 | Gary Ayles / Chris Goodwin / Stefan Johansson | McLaren F1 GTR BMW | Parabolica Motorsport | 2:02.385 |
| 20 | Eric Bernard / Franck Lagorce | Panoz GTR-1 Ford | DAMS | 2:02.400 |
| 17 | Mauro Baldi / Emmanuel Collard / Alain Ferté | Porsche 911 GT1 | JB Racing | 2:02.691 |
| 6 | Hans-Joachim Stuck / Thierry Boutsen / Bob Wollek | Porsche 911 GT1 Evo | Porsche AG | 2:03.183 |
| 5 | Perry McCarthy / David Brabham / Olivier Grouillard | Panoz GTR-1 Ford | David Price Racing | 2:03.441 |
| 15 | Jérôme Policand / Fabien Giroix / Ratanakul Prutirat | Lotus Elise GT1 | First Racing Project | 2:04.430 |
| 39 | Tatsuya Tanigawa / Yuuji Tachikawa / Yasutaka Hinoi | SARD MC897-R Toyota (SW20) | IDC Ootsukakagu SARD | 2:04.831 |
| 16 | Christophe Bouchut / Carl Rosenblad / Ralf Kelleners | Porsche 911 GT1 | Roock Racing | 2:05.418 |
| 52 | Justin Bell / Hideshi Matsuda / Tommy Archer | Chrysler Viper GTS-R | Oreca Racing | 2:09.468 |
| 46 | Masami Kageyama / Tetsuya Tanaka | SARD MC897-R Toyota (SW20) | Team Menicon SARD | 2:09.495 |
| 57 | Pedro Chaves / Robert Nearn / Hisashi Wada | Porsche 911 GT2 | Roock Racing | 2:09.907 |
| 51 | Philippe Gache / Olivier Beretta | Chrysler Viper GTS-R | Viper Team Oreca | 2:10.156 |
| 53 | Manabu Orido / Naohiro Kawano / Yukihiro Hane | Chrysler Viper GTS-R | Chamberlain Engineering Viper | 2:12.148 |
| 66 | Franz Konrad / Seiichi Sodeyama / Wolfgang Kaufmann | Porsche 911 GT2 | Konrad Motorsport | 2:12.714 |
| 58 | Michel Monteiro / Manuel Monteiro / Henri-Louis Maunoir | Porsche 911 GT2 | Estoril Racing Team | 2:14.157 |
| 55 | Wido Rössler / Helmut Reis / Ernst Gschwender | Porsche 911 GT2 | Augustin Motorsport | 2:14.622 |
| 25 | Jean-Luc Maury-Laribiére / Jun Harada / Tomiko Yoshikawa | McLaren F1 GTR BMW | BBA Compétition | 2:14.815 |
| 50 | Michel Ligonnet / Luca Drudi / Masahiro Kimoto | Porsche 911 GT2 | Agusta Racing/Haberthur | 2:16.145 |
| 59 | Cor Euser / Harald Becker / Herman Buurman | Marcos LM600 | Marcos Racing International | 2:16.682 |
| 83 | Patrice Goueslard / Jean-Luc Chéreau / Jack Leconte | Porsche 911 GT2 | Larbre Competition | 2:17.316 |
| 63 | Takashi Suzuki / Sumio Sakurai / Nigel Smith | Porsche 911 GT2 | Krauss Motorsport | 2:17.818 |
| 69 | Gerold Ried / Manfred Jurasz / Patrick Vuillaume | Porsche 911 GT2 | Proton Competition | 2:17.949 |
| 62 | Denis Lay / Uwe Sick / Franz Hunkeler | Porsche 911 GT2 | Stadler Motorsport | 2:20.809 |
| 84 | Hajime Ooshiro / Masayoshi Furuya / Shigekazu Saeki | Honda NSX (NA2) | NSX Dream 28 Competition | 2:31.145 |
| 85 | Takeshi Yuasa / Kiyoaki Hanai / Akio Tomita | Nissan Silvia (S13) | Team Signal | 2:46.468 |