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, the final Grand American Road Racing Association championship before the merger of American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am, winning five races including the last three of the season consecutively. 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.

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					312	19th	4th
2014			Chevrolet Corvette C7.R		338	14th	2nd
2015	Corvette Racing-GM	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner			337	17th	1st

External links

• Jordan Taylor driver statistics at Racing-Reference

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)