Given his turn to qualify the Spirit of Daytona Chevrolet/Coyote, Paul Edwards stepped up Friday and ran a lap of 1:44.984 (112.131 mph) to capture the pole position for Saturday's Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway.

It was the team's second consecutive GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 pole, with Antonio Garcia leading qualifying for the recent Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park.

"The team decided at the beginning of the year that they were going to treat us both as ‘A' drivers," said Edwards, who won his first career DP pole. "They said we were going to flip-flop through the year with who starts and who finishes. It's a good experience for both of us, gives us the full-rounded package of starting and finishing races."

Memo Rojas - who is seeking to give the No. 01 TELMEX BMW/Riley co-driven by Scott Pruett its seventh consecutive victory - appeared to take the pole with a lap of 1:44.935. On his next lap, through, Rojas went wide in Turn 17 and came to a stop, bringing out a black flag. Under GRAND-AM qualifying rules, drivers who cause a qualifying session to be stopped are penalized their fastest lap. As a result, the No. 01 will start sixth.

"I was a little concerned when I heard Memo had pipped me by half a tenth," Edwards said. "I was on a flyer to better the pole, but then he had an incident and threw up some dirt. It will be nice starting on the pole, trying to get the Bounty award."

GRAND-AM has posted a $25,000 "Bounty" for a team that can halt the TELMEX/Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates winning streak.

Jan Magnussen won his second GT pole of the season, running a lap of 1:53.727 (103.511 mph) in the No. 57 Stevenson Automotive Group Camaro co-driven by Robin Liddell. He will be joined on the front row by Boris Said, who went 1:54.380 (102.920) in the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Chevrolet Corvette co-driven by Eric Curran.

The Bosch Engineering 250 will take the green flag at 3 p.m. ET Saturday. The race will be televised on SPEED, beginning at 5 p.m. ET Saturday.”

Lineup

Pos	No.	Class	Pic	Drivers	Team/Car	Time
1	90	DP	1	Edwards / Garcia	Spirit of Daytona Racing / Chevrolet Coyote	1:44.984
2	99	DP	2	Fogarty / Gurney	GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing / Chevrolet Riley	1:45.138
3	10	DP	3	Angelelli / Taylor	SunTrust Racing / Chevrolet Dallara	1:45.348
4	5	DP	4	Donohue / Law	Action Express Racing / Porsche Riley	1:45.720
5	61	DP	5	Frisselle / Wilkins	AIM Autosport / BMW Riley	1:45.761
6	01	DP	6	Pruett / Rojas	Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates / BMW Riley	1:46.015
7	60	DP	7	Negri / Pew	Michael Shank Racing / Ford Riley	1:46.594
8	2	DP	8	Popow / Potolicchio	Starworks Motorsport / Ford Riley	1:48.200
9	8	DP	9	Dalziel / Forest	Starworks Motorsport / Ford Riley	1:48.838
10	9	DP	10	Barbosa / Borcheller / France	Action Express Racing / Porsche Riley	1:49.112
11	57	GT	1	Liddell / Magnussen	Stevenson Motorsports / Camaro GT.R	1:53.727
12	31	GT	2	Curran / Said	Marsh Racing / Corvette	1:54.380
13	07	GT	3	Gavin / Schaldach	Banner Racing / Camaro GT.R	1:54.507
14	70	GT	4	Bomarito / Tremblay	SpeedSource / Mazda RX-8	1:54.881
15	59	GT	5	Davis / Keen	Brumos Racing / Porsche GT3	1:54.976
16	88	GT	6	Lester / Taylor	Autohaus Motorsports / Camaro GT.R	1:55.273
17	41	GT	7	Cameron / Gue	Dempsey Racing / Mazda RX-8	1:55.658
18	42	GT	8	Gidley / Nonnamaker	Team Sahlen / Mazda RX-8	1:56.149
19	94	GT	9	Auberlen / Dalla Lana	Turner Motorsport / BMW M3	1:56.194
20	44	GT	10	Potter / Stanton	Magnus Racing / Porsche GT3	1:56.374
21	30	GT	11	Herrington / Sandberg	Racers Edge Motorsports / Mazda RX-8	1:56.485
22	69	GT	12	Assentato / Segal	SpeedSource / Mazda RX-8	1:56.866
23	49	GT	13	Nonnamaker / Nonnamaker / Sahlen	Team Sahlen / Mazda RX-8	1:58.313
24	40	GT	14	Dempsey / Foster	Dempsey Racing / Mazda RX-8	1:58.520
25	43	GT	15	Nonnamaker / Nonnamaker / Nonnamaker	Team Sahlen / Mazda RX-8	1:59.260
26	67	GT	16	Bertheau / Pumpelly	TRG / Porsche GT3	2:02.018
27	77	DP	0	Frisselle / Richard	Doran Racing / Ford Dallara	-