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Jordan Taylor (racing driver)
Jordan Lee Taylor (born May 10, 1991) is an American professional racing driver. He competes full-time in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, driving the No. 40 Cadillac V-Series.R for Wayne Taylor Racing. He won the 2017 24 Hours of Daytona (along with Jeff Gordon, Max Angelelli and brother Ricky Taylor) and the 2017 championship in the Prototype class of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Taylor also won the 2013 Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototypes class, the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge SprintX GT Championship, and was 2014 United SportsCar Championship Prototypes class runner-up. As well, Taylor achieved a GTE-Pro class victory at the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R.
Taylor is the youngest son of sports car veteran Wayne Taylor. He raced a Cadillac Prototype for his father's team, where he partnered with his older brother, Ricky, from 2014 to 2017. In 2018, he partnered with Renger van der Zande, as Ricky moved to Acura Team Penske.
Born in Orlando, Taylor began his career in professional sports car racing in 2008, competing in the 24 Hours of Daytona and finishing fifteenth. In 2009, he ran right races for Beyer Racing at the Rolex Sports Car Series in the Daytona Prototypes class. His first full season came in 2010, driving a Mazda RX-8 for Racers Edge Motorsports, claiming two GT class podiums. In 2011, he drove a Chevrolet Camaro for Autohaus Motorsports with Bill Lester, where he got one win and three second place finishes, ending as the GT class runner-up. In late 2011 at a private test at Sebring, he impressed Corvette Racing enough that they recruited him 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. Also in 2012, he claimed his second Rolex GT win for Autohaus Motorsports.
In 2013, Taylor 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, winning five races including the last three of the season consecutively.
In 2014, the Grand-Am Rolex Series merged with the American Le Mans Series to form the new United SportsCar Championship (now IMSA SportsCar Championship). With his brother Ricky Taylor as teammate, he was runner-up with two wins and six podiums. In 2015 he earned two wins and three second place finishes. The driver collected three wins and seven podiums in 2016, and was third in points.
Taylor also competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2013 through 2017 in the GTE-Pro class for Corvette Racing, where he won the GT Pro class in 2015, and finished second in 2014 and third in 2017.
For the 2017 IMSA season, Taylor drove a Cadillac DPi-V.R. in the new Daytona Prototype International class. He won the 24 Hours of Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring and the next three races. Later he scored two additional podiums en route to the championship. He also won the Pirelli World Challenge SprintX GT Championship, driving a Cadillac ATS-V.R with codriver Michael Cooper. The duo won at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, took four podiums, and finished in the top-ten in nine out of ten races, taking the title by three points.
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Jordan Taylor (racing driver)
Jordan Lee Taylor (born May 10, 1991) is an American professional racing driver. He competes full-time in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, driving the No. 40 Cadillac V-Series.R for Wayne Taylor Racing. He won the 2017 24 Hours of Daytona (along with Jeff Gordon, Max Angelelli and brother Ricky Taylor) and the 2017 championship in the Prototype class of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Taylor also won the 2013 Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototypes class, the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge SprintX GT Championship, and was 2014 United SportsCar Championship Prototypes class runner-up. As well, Taylor achieved a GTE-Pro class victory at the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R.
Taylor is the youngest son of sports car veteran Wayne Taylor. He raced a Cadillac Prototype for his father's team, where he partnered with his older brother, Ricky, from 2014 to 2017. In 2018, he partnered with Renger van der Zande, as Ricky moved to Acura Team Penske.
Born in Orlando, Taylor began his career in professional sports car racing in 2008, competing in the 24 Hours of Daytona and finishing fifteenth. In 2009, he ran right races for Beyer Racing at the Rolex Sports Car Series in the Daytona Prototypes class. His first full season came in 2010, driving a Mazda RX-8 for Racers Edge Motorsports, claiming two GT class podiums. In 2011, he drove a Chevrolet Camaro for Autohaus Motorsports with Bill Lester, where he got one win and three second place finishes, ending as the GT class runner-up. In late 2011 at a private test at Sebring, he impressed Corvette Racing enough that they recruited him 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. Also in 2012, he claimed his second Rolex GT win for Autohaus Motorsports.
In 2013, Taylor 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, winning five races including the last three of the season consecutively.
In 2014, the Grand-Am Rolex Series merged with the American Le Mans Series to form the new United SportsCar Championship (now IMSA SportsCar Championship). With his brother Ricky Taylor as teammate, he was runner-up with two wins and six podiums. In 2015 he earned two wins and three second place finishes. The driver collected three wins and seven podiums in 2016, and was third in points.
Taylor also competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2013 through 2017 in the GTE-Pro class for Corvette Racing, where he won the GT Pro class in 2015, and finished second in 2014 and third in 2017.
For the 2017 IMSA season, Taylor drove a Cadillac DPi-V.R. in the new Daytona Prototype International class. He won the 24 Hours of Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring and the next three races. Later he scored two additional podiums en route to the championship. He also won the Pirelli World Challenge SprintX GT Championship, driving a Cadillac ATS-V.R with codriver Michael Cooper. The duo won at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, took four podiums, and finished in the top-ten in nine out of ten races, taking the title by three points.