Detroit, Michigan. (May 31, 2026) – Chevrolet and Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports won their home race Saturday as Alexander Sims and Antionio Garcia claimed the GTD PRO class victory in the Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic. The duo in the No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R capitalized on pole position and led 75 of 79 laps for the Corvette Racing program’s first points-paying win in the Motor City since 2007.
The pair arrived in Detroit looking to improve upon their runner-up class finish from last year – a victory that helped them to the GTD PRO Drivers Championship at the end of the season.
After achieving the fastest lap in the afternoon practice session, Alexander Sims went on put the No. 3 Corvette on pole position with a lap of 1:09.354 (85.387 mph), his second of the year, and narrowly beat out fellow Corvette factory driver and teammate Tommy Milner.
In Saturday’s race, they led in class from the outset with Sims getting an ideal getaway at the start to pull clear of his three closest pursuers. The pole-sitter built upwards of a three-second lead and ran first in class for the entirety of his 31-minute stint.
Despite facing two restarts and plenty of traffic, Garcia fought to bring the No.3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R home in first position. With the victory Sims and Garcia moved from fifth to fourth and within 31 points of their teammates with 385 points available on each race weekend.
Commenting on their victory, ALEXANDER SIMS said: “It’s been a really strong weekend for us with Chevrolet and Pratt Miller with our Corvette. It’s a really tough circuit to eke everything out of it. We already arrived with a good package on our Corvette, on the No. 3 car. We had to optimize it a little bit more than the No. 4 car. It’s been working well all weekend. The real difficulty with that situation is that everything is building up so well and you’re at the front of the field the whole time. It almost feels as if you can only lose in the race. It’s huge relief to be able to be able to finish first, and then close it out. Even in the last half an hour, there was so much mayhem going on around the track, it is so easy to be caught out by something. Very, very pleased and proud of the whole team.”
