Alexander Sims says he feels 'somewhat surprised' to be leading the IMSA SportsCar Championship standings heading into the season finale at Petit Le Mans.
AXR's only win of the season to date came at the Sebring 12 Hours, after a multi-car incident in the closing stages boosted the car Sims and Derani shared with third driver Jack Aitken from fourth to the lead.
Despite setting fastest lap at Mosport, the Cadillac ended up seventh as its strategy failed to pay off. A warm-up crash for Sims on cold tyres at Road America required hasty repairs and compromised a race that they would start from pole, ending up sixth, while a brake issue at Indianapolis that took most of initial practice to fix left AXR on the back foot all weekend before recovering to fourth.
"Some of those errors or mistakes are down to us, sometimes it’s just been unfortunate racing scenarios.