Gianmaria Bruni claimed his first pole position as a Porsche factory GT driver at the Lime Rock Park round of the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship.
Bruni, who signed on from Ferrari in the winter, gave the #912 Porsche its maiden pole of the year with a time of 50.404 seconds around the seven-turn, 1.5 mile circuit in Connecticut.
The Italian's time – a 50.404s – also marked the third consecutive pole for the new-for-2017 911 RSR, following the Mosport IMSA round and last weekend's World Endurance Championship event at the Nurburgring.
Bruni, who shares with former Audi driver Laurens Vanthoor, pipped Richard Westbrook in the #67 Ford GT by 0.136 seconds during a tight 15-minute GT Le Mans qualifying session.
Dirk Werner qualified the sister Porsche third, two tenths off the benchmark, while John Edwards took fourth in the best of the BMW M6 GTLMs.
Rounding out the top five for Saturday's 2 hour 40 minute contest was the championship-leading Corvette driven by Tommy Milner.
Pole position in the GT Daytona category went to the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3, qualified by Madison Snow.
After seven different manufacturers took pole in the first seven races, Snow broke the trend with a time that edged out Colin Braun's CORE Autosport Porsche 911 GT3-R by a tenth.
Row two of the grid will be taken up by the Alegra Motorsports Porsche of Patrick Long (+0.328) and the 3GT Racing Lexus of Jack Hawksworth (+0.368s).
This weekend's IMSA race features the two GT categories only, with the prototype classes on hiatus until the Road America round on August 6th.
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