David Donohue in the No. 58 Brumos Porsche

David Donohue edged Timo Bernhard by a scant .001 seconds Thursday to capture the pole position for the 47th Rolex 24 At Daytona, breaking the Daytona Prototype track record in the process.

Donohue turned in a lap of 1:40.540 (127.472 mph) in the No. 58 Brumos Porsche Riley he will share with Darren Law, Buddy Rice and Antonio Garcia. The race will take the green flag at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. FOX will open live network coverage at 3 p.m. Saturday. SPEED will resume coverage at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, continuing until 10 p.m. Sunday coverage on SPEED will run from 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Bernhard was at the wheel of Penske Racing's No. 16 Crown Royal Cask No. 16 Porsche Riley, turning a lap of 1:50.541 (127.470 mph) in the Daytona Prototype he shares with Romain Dumas and Ryan Briscoe.

"Actually, winning the pole was a bit of a surprise," said Donohue. "We had a bit of a problem with traffic on what I thought was my fastest lap. We were having an electrical gremlin, so I didn't know how quick I was running. The team told me I was P-1, but I didn't know by how much and what to do with the tires. But I said it before, all that counts is where you are at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday."

Donohue joins his father, the late Mark Donohue, as a pole winner of the event. The elder Donohue won the pole for Penske Racing in 1971. The pair join Dan and Alex Gurney as father-son pole winners for America's most prestigious sports car race.

While Donohue wasn't sure of his position in qualifying, Bernhard thought he was atop the charts.

"I knew I put down a pretty good lap, and when they give me the time I thought it would be good enough for the pole," said Bernhard, overall winner of the 2003 Rolex 24. "Then they told me it was very close, but I was second, but by that time my tires were done. It was a great result for Penske Racing. It's a new series for us in Grand-Am, and we're already very competitive. Looking at it that way, P-2 is a very good result."

Starting from the second row will be Michael Valiante, posting a time of 1:40.651 (127.331 mph) in the No. 6 Michael Shank Racing Ford Riley, and Richard Zonta, with a time of 1:40.892 (127.027 mph) in the No. 76 Krohn Racing Ford Lola.

Scott Pruett, seeking a third consecutive victory in the Rolex 24 and fourth in a row for TELMEX/Target Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, will start sixth after running a lap of 1:41.016 (126.495 mph) in the No. 01 Lexus Riley.

"That's about what we expected to run in qualifying," said Pruett. "For 24 hours, it's not going to make a difference. The Ganassi guys have done a great job, as always, and we've got a great car for the race. With a little bit of luck, the TELMEX No. 01 car will be fighting for the victory at the end."

Alex Gurney, the 2007 Rolex 24 pole winner, will start 11th in the No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Pontiac Riley co-driven by three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, Jon Fogarty and Jimmy Vasser.

The No. 2 Childress-Howard Motorsports Pontiac Crawford of Danica Patrick, Casey Mears, Rob Finlay and three-time Rolex 24 winner Andy Wallace lost an engine during Friday's practice and failed to qualify. They will start the race 18th, at the back of the Daytona Prototype grid.

In GT, Sylvain Tremblay captured the Rolex 24 pole for the second consecutive year in dramatic fashion, waiting until near the end of the session to turn a track record lap of 1:49.455 (117.100) in the No.70 SpeedSource Castrol Syntec Mazda RX. Tremblay and Nick Ham will be seeking their second consecutive GT victory in the Rolex 24, and fourth consecutive triumph at Daytona - all from the pole position. David Haskell and Jonathan Bomarito will co-drive in the Rolex 24.

"We were short by about three- or four-tenths, and I had to do quite a bit of work to make it happen," Tremblay said. "I could see that that last lap had potential. I kept my head down and drove as hard as I've ever driven here to try to get that lap. I know it doesn't mean much for a 24-hour race, but it means a lot to the team, it means a lot to my boys and it means a lot to me."

Tremblay knocked Andy Lally off the pole, after the driver of the No. 67 TRG Porsche GT3 turned in a lap of 1:49.450 (116.998 mph) early in the session.

Martin Ragginger, Jeff Segal and Wolf Henzler rounded out the top five GT qualifiers.

Thursday's qualifying locked in the top 40 positions for the Rolex 24. Final qualifying will be held Friday at 11 a.m., followed by the Fresh From Florida 200 Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Challenge race.

Lineup

Pos	Num	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap	Speed
1.	58	DP	David Donohue	Brumos Racing	Porsche Riley	1:40.540		127.472
2.	16	DP	Timo Bernhard	Penske Racing	Porsche Riley	1:40.541	0.001	127.470
3.	6	DP	Michael Valiante	Michael Shank Racing	Ford Riley	1:40.651	0.111	127.331
4.	76	DP	Ricardo Zonta	Krohn Racing	Ford Lola	1:40.892	0.352	127.027
5.	22	DP	Ryan Dalziel	Alegra Motorsports	BMW Riley	1:40.915	0.375	126.998
6.	01	DP	Scott Pruett	Chip Ganassi Racing w/F.Sabates	Lexus Riley	1:41.016	0.476	126.871
7.	10	DP	Max Angelelli	SunTrust Racing	Ford Dallara	1:41.311	0.771	126.502
8.	02	DP	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing w/F.Sabates	Lexus Riley	1:41.316	0.776	126.495
9.	59	DP	Joao Barbosa	Brumos Racing	Porsche Riley	1:41.375	0.835	126.422
10.	55	DP	Christophe Bouchut	Level 5 Motorsports	BMW Riley	1:41.569	1.029	126.180
11.	99	DP	Alex Gurney	Gainsco/Bob Stallings Racing	Pontiac Riley	1:41.666	1.126	126.060
12.	60	DP	Oswaldo Negri Jr	Michael Shank Racing	Ford Riley	1:41.796	1.256	125.899
13.	13	DP	Ricky Taylor	Beyer Racing	Pontiac Riley	1:42.058	1.518	125.576
14.	61	DP	Burt Frisselle	AIM Autosport	Ford Riley	1:42.086	1.546	125.541
15.	09	DP	Guy Cosmo	Spirit of Daytona Racing	Porsche Coyote	1:42.475	1.935	125.065
16.	77	DP	Memo Gidley	Doran Racing	Ford Dallara	1:42.740	2.200	124.742
17.	75	DP	Tracy Krohn	Krohn Racing	Ford Lola	1:44.041	3.501	123.182
18.	70	GT	Sylvain Tremblay	SpeedSource	Mazda RX-8	1:49.445	8.905	117.100
19.	67	GT	Andy Lally	TRG	Porsche GT3	1:49.540	9.000	116.998
20.	14	GT	Martin Ragginger	Autometrics Motorsports	Porsche GT3	1:49.634	9.094	116.898
21.	69	GT	Jeff Segal	SpeedSource	Mazda RX-8	1:49.822	9.282	116.698
22.	85	GT	Wolf Henzler	Farnbacher Loles Motorsports	Porsche GT3	1:49.865	9.325	116.652
23.	87	GT	Dirk Werner	Farnbacher Loles Motorsports	Porsche GT3	1:49.946	9.406	116.566
24.	66	GT	Spencer Pumpelly	TRG	Porsche GT3	1:50.109	9.569	116.394
25.	26	GT	Randy Pobst	Gotham Competition	Porsche GT3	1:50.206	9.666	116.291
26.	86	GT	Dominik Farnbacher	Farnbacher Loles Motorsports	Porsche GT3	1:50.234	9.694	116.262
27.	65	GT	Marco Holzer	Riegel/Stanton/TRG	Porsche GT3	1:50.455	9.915	116.029
28.	33	GT	Sascha Maassen	Wright Motorsports	Porsche GT3	1:50.517	9.977	115.964
29.	64	GT	Johannes van Overbeek	JLowe Racing	Porsche GT3	1:50.573	10.033	115.905
30.	52	GT	Christian Montanari	Mastercar-Coast 2 Costa Racing	Ferrari 430 C	1:50.649	10.109	115.826
31.	15	GT	Boris Said	Blackforest Motorsports	Ford Mustang	1:51.036	10.496	115.422
32.	07	GT	Paul Edwards	Banner Racing	Pontiac GXP.R	1:51.236	10.696	115.214
33.	89	GT	Pierre Kaffer	Farnbacher Loles Motorsports	Porsche GT3	1:51.254	10.714	115.196
34.	30	GT	Doug Peterson	Racers Edge Motorsports	Mazda RX-8	1:51.290	10.750	115.159
35.	88	GT	Richard Westbrook	Farnbacher Loles Motorsports	Porsche GT3	1:51.376	10.836	115.070
36.	57	GT	Robin Liddell	Stevenson Motorsports	Pontiac GXP.R	1:51.481	10.941	114.961
37.	42	GT	Wayne Nonnamaker	Team Sahlen	Corvette	1:51.482	10.942	114.960
38.	32	GT	Jeff Westphal	PR1 Motorsports	Pontiac GXP.R	1:51.629	11.089	114.809
39.	97	GT	James Gue	Stevenson Motorsports	Corvette	1:51.780	11.240	114.654
40.	35	GT	Lawson Aschenbach	Orbit Racing	Porsche GT3	1:52.050	11.510	114.378
41.	21	GT	Diego Alessi	Battery Tender/MCM Racing	Pontiac GTO.R	1:52.062	11.522	114.365
42.	45	DP	Leo Hindery Jr	Victory Junction-Orbit Racing	BMW Riley	1:52.108	11.568	114.318
43.	56	GT	Nathan Swartzbach	Mastercar-Coast 2 Costa Racing	Ferrari 430 C	1:52.402	11.862	114.019
44.	44	GT	Ross Bentley	Bullet Racing	Porsche GT3	1:52.568	12.028	113.851
45.	68	GT	Steve Miller	TRG	Porsche GT3	1:52.571	12.031	113.848
46.	40	GT	Patrick Dempsey	Dempsey Racing	Mazda RX-8	1:52.944	12.404	113.472
47.	63	GT	Bruce Ledoux III	TRG	Porsche GT3	1:53.366	12.826	113.050