Tom Blomqvist turned the best lap of the entire three days of so-called “Roar Before the Rolex 24,” driving the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian Acura ARX-06 to the pole position. Blomqvist will lead the 61-car field to the green flag on 28 January because on the last lap of the qualifying session he set a time of 1 minute, 34.031 seconds (136.295 mph). This barely beat Felipe Nasr in the No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 by 0.083 seconds.

However having pace or being the fastest on one lap becomes trivial when the green flag drops and the teams face 24 hours of racing. There are good reasons why it’s called endurance racing. A lot of things can go wrong or break during 86,400 seconds of racing.