A quick lap from Robert Alon put the JDC-Miller Motorsports ORECA on pole position for the IMSA Sportscar Championship round at Road America.
Alon, who shares the #85 JDC LMP2 machine with Simon Trummer, set the only sub 1-minute 52s lap of Saturday’s session to top the Prototype class.
His time of 1:51.993s was two tenths of a second faster than Ricky Taylor in the #7 Team Penske Acura DPi that will start Sunday’s contest from second on the grid.
Alon originally went quickest with around seven minutes left in the 15-minute shootout with a low one minute 52s marker, before shaving that down on his next lap.
Pole for JDC-Miller marked the third instance of a global-spec LMP2 car topping an IMSA qualifying session in as many races.
Row two of the grid will also feature an LMP2 and a DPi, after Colin Braun qualified the #54 CORE Autosport Oreca in third with a 1:52.340.
That put the CORE squad, which won last time out at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, ahead of the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi in the hands of Renger van der Zande.
Rounding out the top five was Juan Pablo Montoya in the second Penske Acura, while Oliver Jarvis completed the front three rows in the best of the Joest-run Mazda DPi cars.
Pole position in GT Le Mans went to Dirk Mueller as Ford Chip Ganassi Racing locked out the class front row.
Mueller’s time of 2:02.479s was enough for the top spot despite falling a second short of last year’s qualifying lap record, while Ryan Briscoe slotted into second in the sister Ford GT.
Corvette was on course to lock out the second row until Laurens Vanthoor came through with a late flyer in the #912 Porsche to split the two C7.Rs.
Antonio Garcia will line up in third and Oliver Gavin fifth for the U.S manufacturer.
In GT Daytona, Patrick Long put the Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3-R on pole with a time of 2:06.593.
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