Defending BMW Performance 200 winner Hugh Plumb took the first step towards giving Rum Bum Racing its fourth Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge victory at Daytona by winning the TOTAL Pole Award in the Grand Sport (GS) class. Plumb ran a lap of 2:12.492 (96.730 mph) in the No. 13 Run Bum Studios/Billfish Foundation Porsche 911 co-driven by his brother, Matt Plumb.

Elliott Skeer took his second Street Tuner (ST) TOTAL Pole Award in two career Continental Tire Challenge races, running 2:17.340 (93.316 mph) in the No. 8 Rebel Rock Racing Borla/Urban Grid/Euro Classic Porsche Cayman co-driven by 2015 GS champion Robin Liddell. Skeer, the 2015 IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama champion and a past IMSA Scholarship recipient, made his only previous Continental Tire Challenge start at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in 2014. For that race, he won the pole and finished second for CJ Wilson Racing.

NOTEBOOK

• – Mark Pombo qualified second in the first Daytona appearance of MINI’s top-of-the-line John Cooper Works. He co-drives the No. 37 MINI USA entry with Ethan Low. … Happy with its setup from the recent Roar Before the Rolex 24 test, CRG-I Do Borrow Racing decided to park its No. 44 Honda Civic Si during both practice and qualifying, both run in damp conditions. Instead, the team will save the car for the race, when dry conditions are in the forecast.