MONTEREY, Calif. (May 11, 2025) – Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports returned its No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R to the GTD PRO podium as Alexander Sims and Antonio Garcia finished third in Sunday’s Monterey SportsCar Championship at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
The result gives the duo two podiums in three GTD PRO races this season following their runner-up finish at the Rolex 24 At Daytona to start the season. It is also the second straight podium finish in Monterey for the Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller squad after Tommy Milner and Nicky Catsburg were third a year ago.
Having qualified his Corvette third for the 2 hr 40 min race, a tentative start from Sims and an opportunistic move by the BMW saw the No. 3 drop to fifth position. A resultant drive through penalty for the BMW saw the Brit back in to fourth before handing over to Antonio Garcia. The remainder of the race proved uneventful with changes for position occurring only through pitstops and having found themselves as high as second, Sims and Garcia ultimately had to settle for third place.
The next round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the GTD PRO Corvettes is the Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic on May 30-31.
ALEXANDER SIMS, NO. 3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “With it being a green race, if you gained on the first stop then you lost it on the next on in terms of pit timing. It kind of worked out as I expected. Maybe not dropping back to fifth at the start. That wasn’t part of the plan but how the racing went I was maybe a little tentative. The BMW squeezed me and clipped me slightly so I was behind him with a little bit of a gap because I had to breathe out of the throttle. I was waiting for what would happen in the brake zone but by then the Porsche was alongside me. That’s the way it goes. Other than that, the Corvette felt nice. That was probably the pace we had. I think we were about the third-fastest car this weekend and that’s about right. Well done to the team. Pratt Miller did a great job, and the Corvette was working well. It’s where we were.”
