Qualified

Thanks to a superb lap from Giacomo Altoe in the final seconds of GTD PRO qualifying, DragonSpeed’s “hypebeast” Ferrari 296 GT3 will start on the class pole position for the second straight race.

With its new Anti-Social Social Club livery, the No. 81 Ferrari looked quick throughout the 15-minute session, but it seemed as if the Pratt Miller Motorsports Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs wouldn’t be toppled.
The No. 4 of Nicky Catsburg set the initial benchmark before Alexander Sims in the No. 3 set a 1m20.673s to take provisional pole halfway through.

Altoe chipped away at the deficit but could seemingly do no better than second place, but on his last flying lap, he drove the yellow and pink Ferrari up to pole position with a 1m20.608s.

Sims got kicked down to the second row of the grid after the No. 48 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO of Dan Harper set a 1m20.644s right at the checkered flag.
The No. 3 Corvette will start third, ahead of the No. 77 AO Racing “Roxy” Porsche 911 GT3 R of Klaus Bachler who was fourth-quickest.

The margins were razor-thin here as well Altoe, Harper, and Sims were covered by just 0.065s.

Catsburg rounded out the top five, then it was Andrea Caldarelli in the No. 9 Pfaff Motorsports Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 in sixth, and GTD PRO points leader Frederic Vervisch in the No. 65 Ford Multimatic Motorsports Mustang GT3 in seventh.

Korthoff Competition Motors’ No. 32 Mercedes-AMG GT3 will start on the pole in GTD as California native Kenton Koch set a new class lap record, edging out the No. 36 DXDT Racing Corvette for pole position by 0.009s.

Koch set the initial benchmark time with a 1m21.010s, before others including Heart of Racing Team’s Casper Stevenson and DXDT’s Alec Udell broke the 1m21s barrier. Koch’s next flying lap, a 1m20.810, broke the course record set last year.
Udell came around second later, but his 1m20.819s wasn’t enough to dislodge Koch from the top spot.

Stevenson ended up third in his No. 27 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 with a 1m20.933s, and then it was Onofrio Triarsi, who qualified an impressive fourth in the No. 023 Triarsi Competizione Ferrari the one that had been rebuilt after its heavy crash at the 12 Hours of Sebring.

GTD Championship leader Russell Ward and the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG were fifth, followed by Danny Formal in the No. 45 Wayne Taylor Racing Lamborghini.
The Monterey SportsCar Championship starts Sunday at 12:10 p.m. PT (local time) airing on Peacock in the United States and in most other countries on the official IMSA YouTube channel and IMSA.tv.

The other Corvette in GTD, sucked and starts in the pack of field

UPDATE:
The No. 27 Heart of Racing Vantage failed post-qualifying inspection and will have to start at the back, moving Triarsi up to 3rd, Winward to 4th and WTR Lamborghini to 5th on the grid.