With two poles in the first five races of the 2013 American Le Mans Series, the SRT Viper squad is showing itself to be a force to be reckoned with.

Jonathan Bomarito took the pole for the No.93 Viper here at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park today aboard the machine he is sharing with local star Kuno Wittmer.

Not to be out-done, the No.91 Long Beach pole winning car of Marc Goosens and Dominik Farnbacher qualified third fastest and will actually start second after the Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia Corvette moves to the back of the grid for replacing four tires after Magnussen’s practice crash.

The Viper is also looking to repeat history here in Canada. The previous generation Viper was a class winner here at Mosport in 1999 and 2000.

“This is a huge day for everybody with SRT Motorsports, myself, Kuno,” Bomarito said.

“We’ve been working really, really hard this year to get where we are and the whole team has been as well. My first pole position in American Le Mans Series in the GT class and I’m over the moon. I’m enjoying this for now but as soon as we leave here, we have to get focused for the race tomorrow. That’s really what we’re here for – to win tomorrow.

“The track is wow… you know it just takes your breath away in numerous corners. I don’t know that I took more than one or two breaths that whole lap. To Turn 2 to Turn 3 to Turn 4 it has awesome flow and it’s just really really knife edge of a track.

“You have to be spot on, really work on balancing the car and just trusting the grip levels because it’s really really fast”