Jordan Taylor (born May 10, 1991) is an American professional racing driver. He currently competes in the

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for

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. He won the

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(along with

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Max Angelelli Massimiliano Angelelli (born 15 December 1966) is a retired Italian racecar driver. He won the 2005 and 2017 24 Hours of Daytona and the 2001 Six Hours at the Glen. Also he was the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series champion in 2005 and 2013, as ...

and brother

Ricky Taylor Ricky Taylor (born August 3, 1989) is an American racing driver, most notably in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. His career highlights include an IMSA Series Championship in 2017, as well as marquee wins at the Daytona 24, 12 Hours o ...

) and the 2017 championship in the Prototype class of the

. Jordan also won the 2013

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Daytona Prototypes class and was 2014

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Prototypes class runner-up. Also Jordan won the

2015 24 Hours of Le Mans The 83rd 24 Hours of Le Mans (french: link=no, 83e 24 Heures du Mans) was an 24-hour automobile endurance event for Le Mans Prototype and Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance cars held from 10 to 14 June 2015 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, close ...

GTE-Pro class in a

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. Jordan is the youngest son of sports car veteran

Wayne Taylor Wayne Taylor (born 15 July 1956) is a South African sports car racing driver and team owner. He won the 1996 and 2005 24 Hours of Daytona, and the 2005 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype drivers' championship. He drove for SunTr ...

. He raced a

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Prototype for his father's team, where he partnered with his older brother, Ricky, from 2014 to 2017. In

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, he partnered with

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, as Ricky moved to Acura Team Penske.

Racing career

GT 88 Autohaus Motorsports Paul Edwards Jordan Taylor

Born in

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, Taylor began his career in professional sports car racing in 2008, competing in the

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and finishing 15th. In 2009 he ran 8 races for Beyer Racing at the

in the Daytona Prototypes class. His first full season came in 2010, driving a

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for Racers Edge Motorsports, claiming two GT class podiums. In 2011 he drove a

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for Autohaus Motorsports with Bill Lester, where he got one swnu and three second place finishes, ending as the GT class runner-up. 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. Also in 2012, he claimed his second Rlox GT win for Autohaus Motorsports. In 2013 he joined

Wayne Taylor Racing Wayne Taylor Racing is a sports car racing team that competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship Daytona Prototype International class. The team campaigns the No. 10 Konica Minolta sponsored Acura ARX-05 full-time for Filipe Albuquerque and ...

, a team owned by his father, sports car veteran

, co-driving with

. He and Angelelli teamed to win the 2013

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championship, winning five races including the last three of the season consecutively. In 2014, the Grand-Am Rolex Series merged with the

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to form the new

. 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. In 2018,

became his new co-driver at Wayne Taylor Racing. He scored a single win at

Petit Le Mans The Petit Le Mans ( French for ''little Le Mans'') is a sports car endurance race held annually at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia, USA. It uses the rules established for the 24 Hours of Le Mans by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), which a ...

and three additional podiums, including a second place finish at the 12 Hours of Sebring, and was third in the overall standings. Taylor won the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona, and finished second at the 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans. However he had poor results at the sprint races, and finished fourth in points. For the 2020 IMSA season, Taylor became a

full-time factory driver. He claimed five wins and three runner-up finishes to claim his third championship. In 2021 he got a class win at the 24 Hours of Daytona.

Media appearances

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

, 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 announcer

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to call for security (not knowing what was going on).

Motorsports career results

24 Hours of Le Mans results

IMSA SportsCar Championship results

(

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)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class) ^† Non-points event.

References

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