#3 on a special scale that weighs each corner of the car, thus allowing for very precise weight and suspension adjustments. In the foreground is the race engine.

needed to know and, by the time qualifying rolled around, both the #3 and #4 Corvettes were dialed in.
    As expected, the #3 Ron Fellows/Johnny O’Connell car was slightly faster than the #4 Andy Pilgrim/Kelly Collins C5-R, primarily because it was running the new six-speed transaxle in place of the old five-speed. Also as expected, the Konrad Motorsport Saleen S7R was slightly faster than both Corvettes, just as it has been all year. Unlike previous races, however, the Saleen failed to win GTS pole. Instead, that honor went to the #3 C5-R. The Saleen likely would have won the pole but the slower of its two drivers, team owner Franz Konrad, piloted it in qualifying while co-driver and