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

He is the son of sports car veteran Wayne Taylor, and has raced with brother Ricky Taylor.

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 2016 IMSA season, Taylor will drive 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 312 19th 4th
2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 338 14th 2nd
2015 United States Corvette Racing-GM United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United States Tommy Milner
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

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.

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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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