Rojas is seeking his fifth Daytona Prototype victory of the season, and had to qualify as veteran co-driver Scott Pruett was not at Mid-Ohio Friday, as he was practicing for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at California's Infineon Raceway. The pair share the point lead in the DP division, leading Jim Matthews and Marc Goossens by 36 points.
Rounding out the top ten on the grid were SunTrust Racing's Michael Valiante, Doran's Ricky Taylor, Spirit of
Daytona's Guy Cosmo, Michael Shank Racing's John Pew and Shane Lewis.
In the GT class, Lawson Aschenbach became the eighth different pole winner in as many races, running a lap of 1min 25.627secs in the #72 Autohaus Motorsports Pontiac GXP.R. It was the second GT pole of the season for that car, with Tim Lewis Jr leading qualifying at Lime Rock Park recently, but a personal first for Aschenbach.
It was pretty good, but the track was pretty greasy," the polewinner revealed, "We made some changes to the car that seemed to work pretty good. The Pontiac is pretty good on tyre wear, but we'll have to see what the race brings. It's been a tough year. We've had some rough, unfortunate things happen. It's a new team, new engineer, a new car for them, so we're gonna have some struggles, but hopefully we can keep it up front and get a good finish out of this.
Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen winner Jeff Segal was second fastest in the #69 SpeedSource FXDD Mazda RX-8, while Andrew Davis (Stevenson Motorsports Pontiac), Nick Ham (SpeedSource Mazdaspeed RX-8) and Eric Lux (Farnbacher Loles Porsche) rounded out the top five in class.
Segal and Ham are previous polewinners this season, along with Sylvain Tremblay, Kelly Collins, Pierre Kaffer, Dominik Farnbacher and Lewis Jr. Defending race winner Andy Lally saw co-driver Ted Ballou qualify only 13th in the #66 Porsche GT3.
