Homestead Qualifying
Quick Report

The #58 Brumos Porsche Riley of David Donohue and Darren Law beat off rivals Max Angelelli and Michael Valiante’s SunTrust car for pole position in today’s qualifying session at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Donohue’s fastest time of 1:13.022 was three tenths of a second quicker than the #10 Pontiac Dallara. The duo also saw off the challenge from Memo Rojas’ #01 Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates Lexus Riley who had set an unofficial Daytona Prototype track record during yesterday’s practice.  Higher temperatures caused a slicker track surface which caught out several teams.

In the GT class, it is an all Pontiac front row with the Banner Engineering #07 Pontiac GXP.R of Kelly Collins and Paul Edwards start from pole. Their time of 1:19.717 just edged the #57 Stevenson Motorsports GXP.R which qualifier Andrew Davis is sharing with Scotland’s very own Robin Liddell.

Collins was able to adjust his car to the slippery track to start at the head of the 26 car GT field. “All is good,” he said. “The car is setup great, it suits my driving style. The only adjustment I made was to turn off the AC. On my fast lap I had to pass my teammate and boss Leighton going into turn one, I almost went off into the kitty litter. I had a big smile on my face. I went into turn one faster than I did all weekend and just stayed on it to get the pole.”

“We have been upfront all weekend,” Davis said. “Right off the truck we were fast. We actually went faster this morning but the track is slippery from the heat. The Stevenson team has prepared a great car. Robin and I are able to run fast consistent laps and we hope to carry that over tomorrow. It is an all GXP.R front row, a great effort for just our second race with the car.”

The Farnbacher Loles Porsche of Dominik Farnbacher and Dirk Werner took third place in the GT class, agonizingly missing out on a front row place by one hundredth of a second. The official results still show Werner’s team mate as being Curran…