Jordan Taylor (racing driver)

Jordan Taylor (born May 10, 1991) is an American professional racing driver. He currently competes in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Wayne Taylor Racing. He won the 2017 24 Hours of Daytona (along with Jeff Gordon, Max Angelelli and brother Ricky) and the 2017 championship in the Prototype class of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Jordan also won the 2013 Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototypes class and was 2014 United SportsCar Championship Prototypes class runner-up. Also Jordan won the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans GTE-Pro class in a Chevrolet Corvette C7.R.

Jordan is the youngest son of sports car veteran Wayne Taylor. He races a Cadillac Prototype for his father's team, where he partnered with his older brother, Ricky, from 2014-2017. In 2018 he will partner with Renger van der Zande, as Ricky moves to Acura Team Penske.

Racing career

Born in Orlando, Taylor began his career in professional sports car racing in 2008, competing in the 24 Hours of Daytona and finishing 15th. His first full season came in 2010. In late 2011 at a private test at Sebring Jordan Taylor impressed Corvette Racing enough that they recruited Jordan to fulfill the third driver role for the team in the 2012 season competing at Sebring, Petit Le Mans and also the 24 Hours of Le Mans where he finished in 5th place in the LM GTE PRO #73 Corvette C6.R. In 2013 he joined Wayne Taylor Racing, a team owned by his father, sports car veteran Wayne Taylor, co-driving with Max Angelelli. He and Angelelli teamed to win the 2013 Rolex Sports Car Series' Daytona Prototype championship,[1] the final Grand American Road Racing Association championship before the merger of American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am,[2] winning five races including the last three of the season consecutively.[1] Previously, Taylor competed in the GT class, winning two races for Autohaus Motorsports. Taylor has also competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2013 through 2015 in the GTE-Pro class for Corvette Racing winning the LM GT PRO Class in 2015. For the 2017 IMSA season, Taylor drove the new Cadillac DPi-V.R. in the new Daytona Prototype International class.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2012 United States Corvette Racing Spain Antonio García
Denmark Jan Magnussen		 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GTE
Pro		 326 23rd 5th
2013 United States Corvette Racing Spain Antonio García
Denmark Jan Magnussen		 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GTE
Pro		 312 19th 4th
2014 United States Corvette Racing Spain Antonio García
Denmark Jan Magnussen		 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R GTE
Pro		 338 14th 2nd
2015 United States Corvette Racing - GM United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United States Tommy Milner		 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R GTE
Pro		 337 17th 1st
2016 United States Corvette Racing - GM United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United States Tommy Milner		 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R GTE
Pro		 219 DNF DNF
2017 United States Corvette Racing - GM Denmark Jan Magnussen
Spain Antonio García		 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R GTE
Pro		 340 19th 3rd

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year Team Make Engine Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rank Points
2014 Wayne Taylor Racing Dallara Corvette Daytona Prototype Chevrolet 5.5L V8 P DAY
2		 SIR
7		 LBH
2		 LS
2		 DET
1		 S6H
5		 MSP
3		 IMS
4		 ELK
10		 COA
7		 PET
1		 2nd 330
2015 Wayne Taylor Racing Dallara Corvette Daytona Prototype Chevrolet 5.5L V8 P DAY
16		 SIR
2		 LBH
1		 LS
2		 DET
6		 S6H
6		 MSP
1		 ELK
8		 COA
2		 PET
4		 5th 292
2016 Wayne Taylor Racing Dallara Corvette Daytona Prototype Chevrolet 5.5L V8 P DAY
2		 SIR
12		 LBH
1		 LS
6		 DET
1		 S6H
4		 MSP
3		 ELK
3		 COA
1		 PET
3		 3rd 309
2017 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 6.2 L V8 P DAY
1		 SEB
1		 LBH
1		 COA
1		 DET
1		 WAT
6		 MSP
7		 ELK
2		 LGA
3		 PET
9		 1st 310

References

  1. 1 2 "Jordan Taylor, Max Angelelli win Grand-Am finale, season title". Fox News. September 28, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
  2. ↑ Smith, Steven Cole (September 28, 2013). "Taylor Racing wins Lime Rock, Grand-Am championship". Autoweek. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Memo Rojas
Scott Pruett		 Rolex Sports Car Series
Daytona Prototype Champion
2013
(with Max Angelelli)		 Succeeded by
João Barbosa
Christian Fittipaldi
United SportsCar Championship Prototype
(post-merger)


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