DP Qualifying

66 7th Jörg Bergmeister
67 8th Nic Jönsson

Steering Lock
Krohn Racing/TRG will start seventh and eighth on the grid for the six-hour Rolex Sports Car Series race on le Circuit Mont-Tremblant.

Jörg Bergmeister (right) had a fast start to the Friday qualifying session, but a steering problem stopped his charge. He and Christian Fittipaldi will start seventh in the No. 66 Krohn Racing/TRG Pontiac-powered Riley Mk XI, based on Bergmeister's lap of one minute 31.229 seconds on the 2.65-mile road course. Nic Jönsson qualfied eighth in the No. 67 Pontiac-Riley he shares with Tracy Krohn (1:31.280).

"In qualifying, the problem with the steering rack came back. The steering locks in a certain position and you have force it open, and that unsettles the car completely. It's a little strange, especially in turn one and the faster corners. It's not too nice!" Bergmeister said.

This is Christian Fittipaldi at the wheel on Thursday.

Low Grip
Jönsson noted the slippery Mont-Tremblant track is a challenge for the Krohn/TRG crew: "It's definitely very low grip. We haven't got to the place we really need to be at yet. We're going to work on the front end of the car, probably soften it up a little more, both on the shock side and the spring side, to try to get the car to dig in more to the track. If we can get the car more front-positive, I think we should be able to pick up some time and be running pretty competitively after that."

Knee Buffer
At 6-foot 3-inches, Tracy Krohn is one of the tallest drivers in the Rolex Series. He sports knee pads to help stabilize his position in the car, so he can focus on the track action.

"Part of the reason I wear knee pads is to stabilize my knees in the car," he explained. "My knees sit up fairly high, so they move around a lot left to right.

"If I put the pads in between them, it stabilizes them and I'm not having to fight for position inside the car. Then I can fight for position outside the car."

GT Qualifying

63 18th Andy Brumbaugh
65 1st Andy Lally

GT Pole
Andy Lally grabbed his third pole position on the 2.65-mile Circuit Mont-Tremblant, putting the No. 65 Auto Gallery/TRG Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car first in GT with a lap of one minute 39.541 seconds. He will alternate race stints with Marc Bunting. Andy Brumbaugh qualified the No. 63 Master Asset Management/Somers Lithium/Targa Newfoundland Porsche 18th in class (1:42.746). He shares driving duty with Marc Bullock and Dave Master.

"I've got to thank the TRG guys – they put the car under me that let me do that," Lally said. "We had a little issue with the left front before we went out, and they did a great job and a great hustle getting it sorted out and putting the car back exactly as we wanted it. I asked Lars [Giersing, race engineer] for a little bit more rear grip for qualifying because we were planning on hanging it out, and he gave me exactly what we needed."

Fit
Dave Master (left) is thrilled with the results of his fitness regimen. Prior to the Rolex 24 At Daytona, he initiated a program to match his race stints, alternating 75-minute training sessions with four-hour rest periods.

"I've got my conditioning at the point that when I got out of the car halfway through the last race, I could have driven that entire race by myself. I don't know what my concentration would have been like, but physically when I got out of the car I felt like I could have turned around and jumped back in. I didn't feel exhausted or tired; I felt great," he reported.

Family Time
Marc Bunting will have a special cheering section at Mont-Tremblant. His daughters Jessie and Calli are attending the race, as is his father, who introduced him to motorsport.

"My father was always into sports cars. He gave me an appreciation for them," Bunting said. "I've always been drawn to speed whether it was on skis when I was little or a bicycle or a motorcycle. I always seemed to have that urge to go fast."