O'Connell and Jan Magnussen have won seven races this season entering Petit Le Mans. They lead the class championship by 23 points and have not trailed in the title chase after they won at Sebring with Ron Fellows. The trio are back together again, hoping to help O'Connell and Magnussen end Beretta and Oliver Gavin's run of three straight class championships.
Jaime Melo earned his second straight Road Atlanta pole and third this season in GT2 for Risi Competizione and
Ferrari. The Brazilian pilot turned a lap of 1min 19.399secs in the Ferrari F430 GT that he will drive with Mika Salo. It was enough for a 0.057sec advantage over Farnbacher Loles Racing's Dirk Werner and his Porsche 911 GT3 RSR.
"We found very good balance for the race," Melo said. "We are happy with the lap time. Porsche was very close as well. We were quite ahead of everyone yesterday. It's a 10-hour race. Qualifying is important but we think about the total race.
"We've been working really hard for this race. This is nice after a bad season. We have been preparing at Petit to make up for it."
Dirk Mueller qualified Tafel Racing's Ferrari third in class at 1min 19.795secs. He will drive with Dominik Farnbacher.
