After locking out the second row in quali▨fying, Ferrari made immediate progress as the #50 went from fourth to second on the opening lap.

Nicklas Nielseꦉn then took over the lead shortly after as he swopped past the #6 Porsche that started on pole.

At the wheel of the #6 Porsche, Laurens Vanthoor was then bumped down to second as Antonio Giovin♎azzi made it a Ferrari 1-2.

Giovinazzi then started his push to catch Niels🐼en, which he did by lap six, however, the lead Ferrari was proving difficult to overtake.

Giovinazzi was given an opening 35 minutes into the rac🌺e when Nielsen made a mistake on corner entry, but the #51 came back through on the ꧑run to Indianapolis.

This allowed Vanthoor and the #6 Porsche to close in as 💙the lead 🗹trio were separated by just over a second.

When the opening pit stops took place it was the #6 Porsche who gained the lead, with the #50 Ferrari of Nielsen filtering into second buꦺt not before an unsafe release into the path of Sebastie๊n Bourdais and the #3 Cadillac.

The #51 F🦋errari, second at the time of the pit stops, lost touch and dropped to fifth after serving a ten second penalty in the pits.

Following a slow zone just before the end of hour one, Ferrari regained the advantage as Nielsen moved ahead of Vanthoor to regaꦉin the lead.

Giovinazzi did the same against S🌌ebastien Buemi as he gained fourth spot before applying pressure to Bourdais’s #3 Cadillac.

In LMP2, it ꦆwas the #9 Proton Competition which led the way at the end of the 𝕴opening hour, while it LMGT3 it was the #70 Inception Racing McLaren on top.