Alexander Sims said he’s hoping to get back to “winning ways” this weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, site of Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports’ first and only to date GTD Pro win with the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R.
Sims and fellow Corvette factory driver Antonio Garcia celebrated victory one year ago in the Chevrolet Grand Prix and ended the season third in the class championship standings.
The No. 3 Corvette duo, meanwhile, took over the lead of this year’s GTD Pro points race last time out at Watkins Glen International with a runner-up finish.
Sims and Garcia, who have three second-place class results so far this season, have only been off the podium once, showcasing an incredible amount of consistency in their 2025 campaign.
When asked by Sportscar365 if he’s been surprised by not yet returning to victory lane since the team’s breakthrough win, Sims said: “I don’t know about surprised.”
He added: We obviously go into every race as everybody else does, basically try to win, but there’s only ever one winner.
I wouldn’t say that the results have been shabby at all. We came third in the championship last year and leading now, so it’s not like the lack of a win has been because we’ve been uncompetitive the whole time.
However, Pratt Miller and Corvette are a pretty good force together, and so we hope that we can get back to winning ways this weekend.
“But as we’ve seen so far this year, I would probably take another second or third place as well consistent podiums as a is a great way to put together a championship, which is the absolute focus above race wins.
“But equally, race wins are a great way to get a championship as well. So, we’ll just do our best to try and optimize the cars as best we can; try and make no mistakes. And try to get another win.”
Sims, who is set for his 50th IMSA start this weekend, said he’s looking forward to returning to the fast and flowing Canadian circuit.
“It’s really one of my favorite tracks on the calendar,” he said. “Although it’s a reasonably short track, it has a lot of high-speed commitment needed and some good undulation.
A couple of really technical corners and it has some ballsy ones as well. So, it is a really nice track to drive.
Our car works pretty well around there as we found last year but the results are never a given. We do our absolute best to beat the very, very tough competition, and they’ll be doing their best to beat us, so we’ll go there and hope for another good weekend.
“But you can’t take anything for granted, [and] got to be on our absolute A game to hopefully be able to repeat something similar to last year, but it’s going to be tough.”
Sims and Garcia hold a 52-point lead over AO Racing’s Laurin Heinrich and Klaus Bachler, with DragonSpeed’s Albert Costa having moved into third in the title race after helping take his DragonSpeed Ferrari 296 GT3 to its second podium in the last three races, last time out at Watkins Glen.
