It was a weekend of challenges for Alexander Sims at his home race in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Racing around London’s Royal Docks in the first motorsport event to take place both inside and outside ExCeL London, Sims recovered from a puncture to claim a 16th-place finish on Sunday, but was forced … Read more
Points redeem puncture in New York A puncture late on in Round 10 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship scuppered Alexander Sims’ first race of the New York E-Prix double-header weekend on 10-11 July 2021. However, the Coughton-based racer fought back to claim a sixth-place finish in Round 11, bringing home eight points … Read more
Alexander Sims claimed a fourth-place finish in Round 8 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, held in Puebla, Mexico, on 19-20 June 2021. The Warwickshire-based driver recovered from a technical issue during free practice to climb through the field and score 12 points from Saturday’s racing action. A collision in the second race … Read more
Alexander Sims and his Schubert Motorsport team-mates finished sixth at the world-famous and notoriously challenging ADAC TOTAL 24h-Rennen at the Nürburgring, Germany, held on 5-6 June 2021. The driving quartet of Jesse Krohn, Jens Klingmann, Stef Dusseldorp and Sims contended with terrible weather conditions and were fighting for a podium finish in the #20 BMW … Read more
Round 7 of the 2020/21 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship took place in Monaco on 8 May 2021. In a first for the series, the Monaco E-Prix was contested on the full circuit, a modified version of the historic Grand Prix track, but it was unfortunately a short-lived race for Alexander Sims following a … Read more
It was a disappointing double-header for Alexander Sims as he contested the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in Valencia, Spain, on 24-25 April 2021. Energy overuse caused many cars to be disqualified from Round 5, including Sims, while a drive-through penalty in Round 6 for a technical infringement meant that despite setting the fastest … Read more
Alexander Sims secured his first podium finish of Season 7 – and his first for Mahindra Racing – with a second-place finish in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship Rome E-Prix on 11 April 2021. Announced as a double-header event two weeks ago, the Italian races took place on a newly configured city-centre circuit … Read more
Mahindra Racing has launched the first of four episodes of YouTube mini-series The Switch, which sees Alexander Sims and his team-mate Alex Lynn job swap with Strictly Come Dancing’s Karen Hauer and professional dancer Katie Priest. The world-class athletes switch job roles and compete in several tough and entertaining challenges for the title of ‘The … Read more
Alexander Sims and his Corvette Racing team-mates Tommy Milner and Nick Tandy claimed fifth-in-class at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Advance Auto Parts, the second endurance race contested by Sims in the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Despite team-mate Milner putting the No. 4 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R second on the GT … Read more
Alexander Sims made his race debut for Mahindra Racing at the opening rounds of the 2020-21 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship on 26-27 February 2021. During the Diriyah E-Prix double-header in Saudi Arabia, Sims secured a seventh-place finish in Round 1 and was classified 15th in Round 2, taking home six points for him … Read more
The 33-year-old Londoner has been involved in Formula E since the series’ inception in 2014, initially testing cars before securing a race seat in Season 5 with BMW i Andretti Motorsport. Highlights in his first season included a pole position and second place finish in New York. Alexander had an impressive start to his second season, taking pole positions for both races of the opening round in Saudi Arabia and taking his maiden win in race two. It also made him the first driver to take three consecutive pole positions in Formula E.
Alexander currently races for Mahindra Racing.
Alongside his Formula E racing activities, Sims is a passionate advocate for sustainability and electric mobility on the road, having owned and driven EVs since 2012 and aims to incorporate sustainable choices into his daily lifestyle.
