| By Gary Watkins | Friday, March 20th 2015, 22:41 GMT |
Olivier Pla set two laps good enough for pole position aboard the Krohn Racing Ligier-Judd/BMW JSP2 in qualifying for the Sebring 12 Hours.
The Frenchman ended up on a 1m51.152s during the 15-minute prototype class qualifying session, which put him three tenths ahead of Ryan Dalziel's Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD ARX-03b.
Dalziel had trailed Pla by seven tenths, but he improved on his last flying lap to a 1m51.455s.
Pla said: "It is something special to be on pole at Sebring.
"The more laps we did, the quicker we went, and I think I had another lap in my pocket if I needed it.
"The track changed a lot because the wind was a lot stronger; it changed the balance and made it loose at the rear."
Joao Barbosa set the best time in a Daytona Prototype to line up third behind the two LMP2 cars in the lead Action Express Racing Coyote-Chevrolet Corvette DP.
The reigning Tudor United SportsCar champion finished on a 1m52.128s, putting him just ahead of Oswaldo Negri Jr in the Michael Shank Racing Ligier-Honda JSP2, which only just made qualifying after an engine change in the wake of final free practice.
The factory CORE Porsche team blocked out the front two positions in GT Le Mans with Frederic Makowiecki and Patrick Pilet.
Makowiecki jumped ahead of Antonio Garcia's Chevrolet Corvette C7.R to take the class pole with a 1m58.587s and then Pilet improved his best to put the #911 Porsche 911 RSR second with a 1m58.806s.
Garcia ended up third, his 1m58.828s leaving him just ahead of Rahal BMW driver Dirk Werner.
Martin Plowman led the way in the prototype challenge class with a 1m55.257s aboard the BAR1 ORECA-Chevrolet FLM09.
That put him a tenth up on Colin Braun in the CORE Autosport entry.
Jeroen Bleekemolen snatched pole for the GT Daytona class at the wheel of the Riley Motorsports Dodge SRT Viper GT3-R from Mario Farnbacher's Alex Job Racing Porsche 911 GT America.
The Dutchman crossed the line in 2m03.485s to eclipse Farnbacher's best by just five hundredths of a second.
The top two were more than half a second ahead of third-placed Spencer Pumpelly, who ended up on a 2m04.106s in his Park Place Porsche.
QUALIFYING RESULTS
| Pos | Class | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P | Olivier Pla | Krohn Racing | Ligier/Judd | 1m51.152s | - |
| 2 | P | Ryan Dalziel | Tequila Patron ESM | HPD | 1m51.455s | 0.303s |
| 3 | P | Joao Barbosa | Action Express Racing | Corvette/Chevrolet | 1m52.128s | 0.976s |
| 4 | P | Oswaldo Negri Jr. | Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian | Ligier/HPD | 1m52.170s | 1.018s |
| 5 | P | Dane Cameron | Action Express Racing | Corvette/Chevrolet | 1m52.490s | 1.338s |
| 6 | P | Richard Westbrook | visitflorida.com Racing | Corvette/Chevrolet | 1m52.691s | 1.539s |
| 7 | P | Ricky Taylor | Wayne Taylor Racing | Corvette/Chevrolet | 1m52.720s | 1.568s |
| 8 | P | Johannes van Overbeek | Tequila Patron ESM | HPD | 1m53.047s | 1.895s |
| 9 | P | Joey Hand | Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates | Riley/Ford | 1m53.329s | 2.177s |
| 10 | P | Memo Rojas | Claro / TracFone DeltaWing Racing | DeltaWing/Elan | 1m55.223s | 4.071s |
| 11 | PC | Martin Plowman | BAR1 Motorsports | ORECA/Chevrolet | 1m55.257s | 4.105s |
| 12 | PC | Colin Braun | CORE Autosport | ORECA/Chevrolet | 1m55.327s | 4.175s |
| 13 | PC | Tom Kimber-Smith | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | ORECA/Chevrolet | 1m55.416s | 4.264s |
| 14 | PC | Conor Daly | Performance Tech Motorsports | ORECA/Chevrolet | 1m55.748s | 4.596s |
| 15 | PC | Chris Cumming | RSR Racing | ORECA/Chevrolet | 1m56.450s | 5.298s |
| 16 | PC | Rusty Mitchell | JDC/Miller Motorsports | ORECA/Chevrolet | 1m57.248s | 6.096s |
| 17 | P | Tristan Nunez | Speedsource | Mazda | 1m57.421s | 6.269s |
| 18 | PC | Alex Popow | Starworks Motorsport | ORECA/Chevrolet | 1m57.842s | 6.690s |
| 19 | GTLM | Frederic Makowiecki | Porsche North America | Porsche | 1m58.587s | 7.435s |
| 20 | GTLM | Patrick Pilet | Porsche North America | Porsche | 1m58.806s | 7.654s |
| 21 | GTLM | Antonio Garcia | Corvette Racing | Chevrolet | 1m58.828s | 7.676s |
| 22 | GTLM | Dirk Werner | BMW Team RLL | BMW | 1m58.842s | 7.690s |
| 23 | GTLM | Giancarlo Fisichella | Risi Competizione | Ferrari | 1m58.927s | 7.775s |
| 24 | GTLM | Lucas Luhr | BMW Team RLL | BMW | 1m58.930s | 7.778s |
| 25 | GTLM | Tommy Milner | Corvette Racing | Chevrolet | 1m59.451s | 8.299s |
| 26 | GTLM | Wolf Henzler | Team Falken Tire | Porsche | 1m59.787s | 8.635s |
| 27 | GTLM | Pedro Lamy | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 1m59.896s | 8.744s |
| 28 | GTD | Jeroen Bleekemolen | Riley Motorsports | Dodge | 2m03.485s | 12.333s |
| 29 | GTD | Mario Farnbacher | Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing | Porsche | 2m03.538s | 12.386s |
| 30 | GTD | Spencer Pumpelly | Park Place Motorsports | Porsche | 2m04.106s | 12.954s |
| 31 | GTD | Leh Keen | Alex Job Racing | Porsche | 2m04.339s | 13.187s |
| 32 | GTD | James Davison | TRG-AMR | Aston Martin | 2m04.855s | 13.703s |
| 33 | GTD | Damien Faulkner | GB Autosport | Porsche | 2m04.930s | 13.778s |
| 34 | GTD | Andy Lally | Magnus Racing | Porsche | 2m04.944s | 13.792s |
| 35 | GTD | Jan Heylen | Wright Motorsports | Porsche | 2m05.059s | 13.907s |
| 36 | GTD | Ben Keating | Riley Motorsports | Dodge | 2m05.081s | 13.929s |
| 37 | GTD | Bryce Miller | Paul Miller Racing | Audi | 2m05.265s | 14.113s |
| 38 | GTD | Marco Holzer | Flying Lizard Motorsports | Audi | 2m05.499s | 14.347s |
| 39 | GTD | Marco Cioci | AF Corse | Ferrari | 2m05.781s | 14.629s |
| 40 | GTD | Anthony Lazzaro | Scuderia Corsa | Ferrari | 2m06.479s | 15.327s |
| 41 | GTD | Boris Said | Turner Motorsport | BMW | 2m07.373s | 16.221s |
| 42 | P | T.Long, J.Miller, B.Devlin, S.Tremblay | Speedsource | Mazda | - | - |
| 43 | P | J.Pace, B.Defoor, D.Hinton, D.Schroeder | Fifty Plus Racing | Riley/BMW | - | - |
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