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CORVETTE RACING AT INDY: Sims, No. 3 Qualify on Second Row
Championship-leading Corvette hoping to solidify GTD PRO points advantage
INDIANAPOLIS (September 20, 2025) – Corvette Racing factory driver Alexander Sims qualified fourth in the GTD PRO class Saturday ahead of the six-hour Battle on the Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Sims, driving the No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R for Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports, slipped onto the second row late after taking a second set of tires in the 15-minute session.
Sims and teammate Antonio Garcia are coming off an overall victory in the most recent round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Virginia International Raceway.
More importantly, Sims slightly expanded the lead in the GTD PRO Drivers, Manufacturers and Teams championships by qualifying ahead of the No. 3’s two closest challengers.
The best lap from Sims was a 1:23.510 (105.136 mph) effort on his final attempt around the 2.439-mile, 14-turn Indy road course. It put the No. 3 Corvette just 0.251 seconds off the class pole-winning time.
An incident Friday for the No. 4 Corvette played a role in Tommy Milner’s 10th-place qualifying result. Teammate Nicky Catsburg was on-track in the weekend’s first session when the Corvette developed an engine oil leak. He pulled the car off-track quickly enough that there was no engine damage. The fluid on the track surface, however, resulted in a red flag and the No. 4 lost its fastest qualifying time.
In GTD, DXDT Racing’s Alec Udell was seventh among 18 cars in class after the 15-minute qualifying session. He set a best lap of 1:23.877 (104.676 mph) in the No. 36 Corvette that he shares with Charlie Eastwood and Salih Yoluc.
It’s the first race together for the endurance-race trio since the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen in June. In that race, the DXDT Corvette was in position for a potential race win until a mechanical failure in the final 10 minutes – similar to the team’s unlucky ending at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in March.
The No. 13 AWA Corvette will start 16th in GTD with the team hoping to grow its lead in the Bob Akin standings at the end of Sunday’s race. Fidani – teaming with Matt Bell and Lars Kern – leads the season-long competition among Bronze-rated drivers with two rounds to go. The prize would be a second straight invitation to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Fidani was the third quickest Bronze-rated driver in qualifying at 1:25.027 (103.261 mph) and only three-tenths off his closest Akin challenger.
The Battle on the Bricks from IMS is scheduled for 11:40 a.m. ET on Sunday. The race will air live on NBC from 3 to 6 p.m. ET with live streaming on Peacock in the United States and IMSA.com outside the U.S. from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET. IMSA Radio will provide the audio call at IMSA.com, XM 206 and SiriusXM Online 996.
CORVETTE RACING BY PRATT MILLER MOTORSPORTS QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTES
ALEXANDER SIMS, NO. 3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: (Taking two sets of tires in the session for the first time?) "This year, definitely, and I didn’t last year as well. With the short lap here, it’s feasible. It’s quite warm, so the tires come up to temperature quite quickly. We knew going in that it was an option. On the first set, it was a sensible lap. You realize having a second stab at it that you have those references embedded in you, and you can push that little bit more and find the laptime slightly on the second set. That was really nice. It’s good fun driving two sets of tires in a session. It’s a nice privilege. Our Corvette was working well. It’s a nice place to start the race at the right end of the field."
(Good race pace as well?) "Our pace in practice seemed to suggest that was the case, yes. It’s always a little bit unknown going into the race. I believe we’ve got a solid racecar as well."
TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: "The car’s been a little bit of a handful throughout the weekend. We’ve made some improvement in places, but we’re still struggling a little bit with the balance. Starting 10th in a six-hour race of all places, you want to be starting a bit further up. But it shouldn’t have a huge impact for us. We tried something in qualifying in hopes of learning something for the race. So, we’ll use this to hopefully build us a better car for the race."
(More on the qualifying change) "We changed the aero-balance a bit to mask some things. I think it was a little too much or too powerful or not what we expected. Maybe losing the first session does impact us slightly. But we’ve had a couple of chances, a couple of swings at it and we’re just not finding the right knobs to turn yet, to get the car right where we want it.”
AWA POST-QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTE
OREY FIDANI, NO. 13 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “We had a little off in Practice 2 because of contact from another competitor and got a bit of damage, but the AWA crew just knuckled down and turned the car around in time. They gave me an awesome Corvette for qualifying, and I’m really proud of how the whole team rallied to get us here.”
DXDT RACING POST-QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTE
ALEC UDELL, NO. 36 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “You always want a little bit more. As a driver, you always look at the places that you can maximize. Overall I feel the balance of the car feels pretty good. I know we’re going to be strong over a stint. We’ve got a good car over a stint. Some other cars may just have one-lap pace. A top-10… this place is always tough so track position is key. That’s kind of what we were going for with the strategy here. We have a little bit of work to do but we have six hours to do it. I’m confident in Charlie and Salih, and we’re looking forward for the race tomorrow. We’ll see where it shakes out.”
Ryan Smith
Judy Kouba Dominick
CORVETTE RACING AT INDY: Sims, No. 3 Qualify on Second Row
Championship-leading Corvette hoping to solidify GTD PRO points advantage
INDIANAPOLIS (September 20, 2025) – Corvette Racing factory driver Alexander Sims qualified fourth in the GTD PRO class Saturday ahead of the six-hour Battle on the Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Sims, driving the No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R for Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports, slipped onto the second row late after taking a second set of tires in the 15-minute session.
Sims and teammate Antonio Garcia are coming off an overall victory in the most recent round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Virginia International Raceway.
More importantly, Sims slightly expanded the lead in the GTD PRO Drivers, Manufacturers and Teams championships by qualifying ahead of the No. 3’s two closest challengers.
The best lap from Sims was a 1:23.510 (105.136 mph) effort on his final attempt around the 2.439-mile, 14-turn Indy road course. It put the No. 3 Corvette just 0.251 seconds off the class pole-winning time.
An incident Friday for the No. 4 Corvette played a role in Tommy Milner’s 10th-place qualifying result. Teammate Nicky Catsburg was on-track in the weekend’s first session when the Corvette developed an engine oil leak. He pulled the car off-track quickly enough that there was no engine damage. The fluid on the track surface, however, resulted in a red flag and the No. 4 lost its fastest qualifying time.
In GTD, DXDT Racing’s Alec Udell was seventh among 18 cars in class after the 15-minute qualifying session. He set a best lap of 1:23.877 (104.676 mph) in the No. 36 Corvette that he shares with Charlie Eastwood and Salih Yoluc.
It’s the first race together for the endurance-race trio since the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen in June. In that race, the DXDT Corvette was in position for a potential race win until a mechanical failure in the final 10 minutes – similar to the team’s unlucky ending at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in March.
The No. 13 AWA Corvette will start 16th in GTD with the team hoping to grow its lead in the Bob Akin standings at the end of Sunday’s race. Fidani – teaming with Matt Bell and Lars Kern – leads the season-long competition among Bronze-rated drivers with two rounds to go. The prize would be a second straight invitation to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Fidani was the third quickest Bronze-rated driver in qualifying at 1:25.027 (103.261 mph) and only three-tenths off his closest Akin challenger.
The Battle on the Bricks from IMS is scheduled for 11:40 a.m. ET on Sunday. The race will air live on NBC from 3 to 6 p.m. ET with live streaming on Peacock in the United States and IMSA.com outside the U.S. from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET. IMSA Radio will provide the audio call at IMSA.com, XM 206 and SiriusXM Online 996.
CORVETTE RACING BY PRATT MILLER MOTORSPORTS QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTES
ALEXANDER SIMS, NO. 3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: (Taking two sets of tires in the session for the first time?) "This year, definitely, and I didn’t last year as well. With the short lap here, it’s feasible. It’s quite warm, so the tires come up to temperature quite quickly. We knew going in that it was an option. On the first set, it was a sensible lap. You realize having a second stab at it that you have those references embedded in you, and you can push that little bit more and find the laptime slightly on the second set. That was really nice. It’s good fun driving two sets of tires in a session. It’s a nice privilege. Our Corvette was working well. It’s a nice place to start the race at the right end of the field."
(Good race pace as well?) "Our pace in practice seemed to suggest that was the case, yes. It’s always a little bit unknown going into the race. I believe we’ve got a solid racecar as well."
TOMMY MILNER, NO. 4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: "The car’s been a little bit of a handful throughout the weekend. We’ve made some improvement in places, but we’re still struggling a little bit with the balance. Starting 10th in a six-hour race of all places, you want to be starting a bit further up. But it shouldn’t have a huge impact for us. We tried something in qualifying in hopes of learning something for the race. So, we’ll use this to hopefully build us a better car for the race."
(More on the qualifying change) "We changed the aero-balance a bit to mask some things. I think it was a little too much or too powerful or not what we expected. Maybe losing the first session does impact us slightly. But we’ve had a couple of chances, a couple of swings at it and we’re just not finding the right knobs to turn yet, to get the car right where we want it.”
AWA POST-QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTE
OREY FIDANI, NO. 13 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “We had a little off in Practice 2 because of contact from another competitor and got a bit of damage, but the AWA crew just knuckled down and turned the car around in time. They gave me an awesome Corvette for qualifying, and I’m really proud of how the whole team rallied to get us here.”
DXDT RACING POST-QUALIFYING DRIVER QUOTE
ALEC UDELL, NO. 36 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06 GT3.R: “You always want a little bit more. As a driver, you always look at the places that you can maximize. Overall I feel the balance of the car feels pretty good. I know we’re going to be strong over a stint. We’ve got a good car over a stint. Some other cars may just have one-lap pace. A top-10… this place is always tough so track position is key. That’s kind of what we were going for with the strategy here. We have a little bit of work to do but we have six hours to do it. I’m confident in Charlie and Salih, and we’re looking forward for the race tomorrow. We’ll see where it shakes out.”
Ryan Smith
Judy Kouba Dominick