“I was in traffic for most of the session,” Collins said, “I am not sure if I had a car that was good for the pole, but I know I could have been closer. I was able to get one clean lap and that is when I put in my fast time. The car went from push to oversteer in turn five but, when I was running in traffic the car was really good. Other than that, the car is groovy.”

Nick Ham proved to be best of the rest, clocking 52.904secs in SpeedSource's Castrol Mazda RX-8, while the Matt Connolly Pontiac GTO.R of Ryan Phinny claimed sixth to underline the marque's superiority at Lime Rock.

Porsches took the next three positions, with Eric Lux and Dominik Farnbacher sharing the fourth row in a pair of Farnbacher Loles GT3s, while Bryan Sellers took ninth for TRG ahead of Tommy Constantine's Racers Edge Motorsports Playboy Mazda.

"We struggled yesterday and today finding the right set-up for this track because it's quite bumpy here," Lux admitted, "The engine hanging over the rear axle makes it difficult to set the car up so it won't oversteer or understeer on entry. We made some pretty big improvements going into today's practice, but we still weren't where we needed to be for qualifying, so we threw another set-up at the car and it came through."

"It is a decent starting place," Sellers said of his qualifying run, "We are mid-pack, right with all of the other Porsches. Unfortunately, I think we have a disadvantage to some of the Pontiacs and Mazdas, but it is a small track, so it is difficult to get clean laps. Every time you feel like you are on a flyer and have a good lap going, you get held up. I probably did not manage traffic as well as I could have, but the car was really good. We probably had the quickest Porsche on track."

Due Connecticut state law, which prohibits racing events from being run on Sundays, the Lime Rock GT Classic 250 will take the green flag at 2pm ET on Monday.