Late-race dramas bite Corvette in 12 Hours
SEBRING, Fla. (March 15, 2025) – Corvette Racing’s Alexcander Sims suffered a cruel end to the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring on Saturday with misfortune ruining chances for a GTD PRO victory in America’s oldest sports car race.
Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports’ No. 3 Corvette was the highest-finishing Z06 GT3.R with a seventh-place GTD PRO finish for Sims, Antonio Garcia and Daniel Juncadella.
After a strong run through the day and some clever strategy, Sims worked his way up from sixth to fourth inside the final 90 minutes and was on a fuel strategy that likely would have had him challenging for the victory. However, the Sebring circuit bit the Corvette as Sims had to pit with a little more than an hour remaining with a broken right-rear suspension component. It knocked him from third in class and in the podium fight to seventh and two laps down.
ALEXANDER SIMS, NO. 3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R:
“A bit of a bummer, this one. Our Corvette had pretty good pace to be honest. Going into the night, it seemed to come alive a bit. We had good pace and I was able to get up to third before we had the rear suspension problem. It did seem the leaders at the end had pace that we didn’t, to be honest. I don’t think we would have gotten any better than that. Even holding on to third would have been a struggle. Full credit to the Pratt Miller guys for getting it turned around quick and salvaging what we could. We didn’t give up and still managed seventh place, which could have been worse if they weren’t as quick in the pits as they were. On to the next one.”
