Jordan Taylor (racing driver)

2012 GT car

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.

Taylor is well known for his quirky personality and his social media presence. He has an online alter ego known as Rodney Sandstorm, a parody of 1990s racers and Jeff Gordon, whose antics have drawn positive attention toward both Taylor and IMSA. In particular, during the 2018 Talladega broadcast, Taylor received significant media attention when he, as Rodney Sandstorm, crashed a live NASCAR on Fox broadcast, causing Darrell Waltrip to call for security (not knowing what was going on).[3]

24 Hours of Le Mans results

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

• Jordan Taylor driver statistics at Racing-Reference