While Daytona Prototype qualifying was run in mixed drizzle and drying conditions, steady rain fell through much of the GT qualifying session, only to let off in the closing minutes. Leh Keen took advantage of the changing conditions to capture his first GT pole in the final seconds, running a lap of 2:52.252 (93.756 mph) in the No. 86 Farnbacher Loles Racing Porsche GT3 co-driven by Eric Lux. He knocked teammate Wolf Henzler off the pole, with Henzler running a lap of 2:52.724 (93.499 mph) in the No. 87 Porsche GT3 co-driven by Bryce Miller and Dirk Werner.
Spencer Pumpelly gave Porsche a sweep of the top three in qualifying with a best time of 2:55.203 (92.177 mph) in the No. 66 TRG Porsche GT3.
Two of the top five qualifiers are also in contention for the GT Championship, which is proving to be a heated three-way battle entering the season finale.
Point leader Paul Edwards qualified fourth in the No. 07 Banner Racing Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R in fourth position with a time of 2:55.323 (92.113 mph). Edwards and co-driver Kelly Collins lead the GT point standings with 338, six points ahead of Andrew Davis and Robin Liddell in the No. 57 Stevenson Motorsports Stevenson Automotive Pontiac GXP.R, and 13 points atop Sylvain Tremblay and Nick Ham in the No. 70 SpeedSource Mazdaspeed/Castrol Syntec Mazda RX-8.
Tremblay will start fifth with a time of 2:56.254 (91.627 mph), while Davis qualified 10th with a lap of 2:59.094 (90.174 mph). Ham was the only driver to win multiple poles in GT competition in 2008, setting fastest time on three occasions.
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