Weaver takes Mosport pole

The Englishman lapped in 1m07.430s, averaging 131.283mph, at the road circuit near Toronto. He will co-drive with Butch Leitzinger in event, and it was his third pole of the season.

"This is just a brilliant, brilliant circuit, and I love driving on it," said Weaver. "We've raced here a lot over the years and we tested here earlier this year, and the car is working perfectly."

JJ Lehto and Marco Werner, seeking their fifth consecutive overall race win in the ALMS, will start second after Werner qualified the ADT Champion Racing Audi R8 in 1m07.875s. Chris Dyson and Andy Wallace, driving a Dyson team car, will start third after Dyson lapped in 1m09.521s.

"This is better for us than last year," said Lehto. "We are much faster and much closer than last year. The Dyson team was fast here last year and we were almost a second off. Now we're only less than half a second off which is a good sign that we are better than before."

Local hero Ron Fellows was upstaged in GTS, when Corvette team-mate Oliver Gavin won the class pole. Gavin's record lap of 1m13.317s in the C5-R that he will share with Olivier Beretta was only 0.012secs faster than the time turned by Fellows who, along with co-driver Johnny O'Connell, is seeking to win the GTS class in the ALMS event at Mosport for the fourth straight year.

"I was completely oblivious to Ron's time," said Gavin. "I knew it would be close, it has been all season. Of course, Ron knows this course pretty well. It was a good lap, I screwed up turn 1, but it was a good lap nonetheless. The track came in very well on my second lap."

Fellows said: "I didn't want to know what Ollie had run. I just wanted to go out and run a good lap. When I finished, I looked down on the dash and saw I had run a 13.3s and I said 'please let that be enough'. It's unbelievable that we're running 1m13s around this track in a modified Corvette. That would have been the F1 pole here in '71."

Terry Borcheller and Johnny Mowlem will start third in class in the ACEMCO Saleen S7R with a time of 1m14.792s.

In the GT class, the upstart Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche team and driver Lonnie Pechnik pulled off an upset by ending a 22-race pole-winning streak by the Alex Job Racing squad. Pechnik, in his first full season of ALMS racing, set a track qualifying record with his run of 1m18.365s in a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. The previous record of 1m18.873s had stood since 2001 by Dirk Muller in a BMW M3 GTR.

"I am actually quite stunned," said Pechnik, who will co-drive with Seth Neiman. "I knew I had a good lap, we had a good looking track and it only got better. With the sun coming out I thought the Alex Job cars would be faster."

Clint Field and Robin Liddell will chase their third straight LMP2 class win from the pole after Field turned a lap of 1m14.486s in the Intersport Racing Lola B2K/40-Judd.