Jordan Taylor (racing driver)

Jordan Taylor
Taylor at the Circuit of the Americas in 2023
Nationality	American
Born	Jordan Lee Taylor (1991-05-10) May 10, 1991 (age 33) Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Related to	Ricky Taylor (brother) Wayne Taylor (father)
IMSA SportsCar Championship career
Debut season	2014
Current team	Wayne Taylor Racing
Racing licence	FIA Platinum
Car number	40
Starts	115
Championships	3 2017 (P), 2020-2021 (GTLM)
Wins	27
Podiums	62
Poles	18
Best finish	1st in 2017 (P), 2020-2021 GTLM)
Finished last season	NASCAR driver
NASCAR Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
2023 position	53rd
Best finish	53rd (2023)
First race	2023 EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix (Austin)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
2 races run over 1 year
2023 position	55th
Best finish	55th
First race	2023 Pacific Office Automation 147 (Portland)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics current as of September 29, 2023.

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 Acura ARX-06 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 15th. In 2009 he ran 8 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 Rilex GT win for Autohaus Motorsports.

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, winning five races including the last three of the season consecutively.^[1][2]

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 10 in nine out of ten races, taking the title by 3 points.^[3]

In 2018, Renger van der Zande became his new co-driver at Wayne Taylor Racing. He scored a single win at Petit Le Mans 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 Corvette Racing 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, as well as a second place finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

In 2023, Taylor made his NASCAR debut in the Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas, driving the No. 9 as a substitute for Chase Elliott, who was recovering from a leg injury he suffered in a snowboarding accident in Colorado. Taylor started fourth and finished 24th.^[4] He later raced Kaulig Racing's No. 10 car in the Xfinity Series race at Portland International Raceway and ran well, but due to an issue, finished 27th. Taylor returned to Kaulig to drive their No. 11 car in the Xfinity Series race at the Charlotte Roval.^[5]

For the 2024 IMSA season, after spending four years with Corvette Racing, Taylor returned to his father's team, Wayne Taylor Racing, sharing the No. 40 Acura ARX-06 with Louis Delétraz. His older brother Ricky, as well as Filipe Albuquerque were teammates in the No. 10 car.^[6][7]

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.^{[citation needed]}

In particular, during the 2018 Talladega broadcast, Taylor received significant^[how?] media attention when he, as Rodney Sandstorm, crashed a live NASCAR on Fox broadcast, causing announcer Darrell Waltrip to call for security (not knowing what was going on).^[8]

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2008	Rolex Sports Car Series - GT	Terra Firma Motorsports	3	0	0	0	0	34	85th
2009	Rolex Sports Car Series - GT	Beyer Racing	8	0	0	0	0	146	16th
2010	Rolex Sports Car Series - GT	Racers Edge Motorsports	11	0			2	248	11th
2011	Rolex Sports Car Series - GT	Autohaus Motorsport	12	1			4	317	2nd
2012	Rolex Sports Car Series - GT	Autohaus Motorsports	10	1			1	211	15th
	American Le Mans Series - GT	Corvette Racing	2	0	0	0	2	20	18th
2013	Rolex Sports Car Series - DP	Wayne Taylor Racing	12	5			6	339	1st
	American Le Mans Series - GT	Corvette Racing	2	0	0	0	0	10	26th
2014	United Sports Car Championship - Prototype	Wayne Taylor Racing	11	2			6	330	2nd
2015	United Sports Car Championship - Prototype	Wayne Taylor Racing	10	2			5	292	5th
2016	IMSA SportsCar Championship - Prototype	Wayne Taylor Racing	10	3			7	309	3rd
2017	IMSA SportsCar Championship - Prototype	Wayne Taylor Racing	10	5	0	2	7	310	1st
2018	IMSA SportsCar Championship - Prototype	Wayne Taylor Racing	10	1	0	0	4	270	3rd
2019	IMSA SportsCar Championship - DPi	Konica Minolta Cadillac	10	1	0	0	3	274	4th
2020	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTLM	Corvette Racing	11	5	4	0	8	351	1st
2021	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTLM	Corvette Racing	11	4	5	1	9	3549	1st
2022	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD Pro	Corvette Racing	10	1	1	1	5	3194	3rd
2023	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD Pro	Corvette Racing	11	2	0	0	6	3579	3rd
	NASCAR Cup Series	Hendrick Motorsports	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
	NASCAR Xfinity Series	Kaulig Racing	2	0	0	0	0	21	55th
2024	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTP	Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport	9	1	1	1	2	2603	5th

^† As Taylor was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2008	Terra Firma Motorsports	Ronald Zitza Gary Jensen Mark Jensen	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	GT	599	29th	15th
2009	Beyer Racing	Ricky Taylor Jared Beyer David Martínez	Riley Mk. XI	DP	662	20th DNF	10th DNF
2010	Racer's Edge Motorsports	Glenn Bocchino Jade Buford John Edwards Todd Lamb	Mazda RX-8 GT	GT	69	43rd DNF	28th DNF
2011	Autohaus Motorsports	Bill Lester Johnny O'Connell Matthew Marsh	Chevrolet Camaro GT.R	GT	607	28th	14th
2012	Autohaus Motorsports	Paul Edwards Matthew Marsh Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Camaro GT.R	GT	713	20th	9th
2013	Wayne Taylor Racing	Max Angelelli Ryan Hunter-Reay	Dallara Corvette DP	DP	709	2nd	2nd
2014	Wayne Taylor Racing	Wayne Taylor Ricky Taylor Max Angelelli	Dallara Corvette DP	P	695	2nd	2nd
2015	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor Max Angelelli	Chevrolet Corvette DP	P	740	52nd	16th
2016	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor Max Angelelli Rubens Barrichello	Chevrolet Corvette DP	P	736	2nd	2nd
2017	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor Max Angelelli Jeff Gordon	Cadillac DPi-V.R	P	659	1st	1st
2018	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ryan Hunter-Reay Renger van der Zande	Cadillac DPi-V.R	P	555	45th DNF	15th DNF
2019	Konica Minolta Cadillac	Renger van der Zande Fernando Alonso Kamui Kobayashi	Cadillac DPi-V.R	DPi	593	1st	1st
2020	Corvette Racing	Nicky Catsburg Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	GTLM	785	16th	4th
2021	Corvette Racing	Nicky Catsburg Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	GTLM	770	11th	1st
2022	Corvette Racing	Nicky Catsburg Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTD	GTD Pro	698	29th	6th
2023	Corvette Racing	Antonio García Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTD	GTD Pro	729	19th	2nd
2024	Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti	Jenson Button Louis Delétraz Colton Herta	Acura ARX-06	GTP	791	3rd	3rd
Source:[9]

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points	Ref
2008	Terra Firma Motorsports	GT	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	DAY 15	MIA	MEX	VIR	LGA	WGL	LEX	DAY 15	BAR	MON	WGL	SON	NJ 13	MIL	85th	34	[10]
2009	Beyer Racing	DP	Riley Mk. XI/Crawford DP08	Pontiac/Chevrolet 5.0L V8/Honda 3.9L V6	DAY 10	VIR	NJ	LAG 16	WGI 10	LEX 14	DAY 15	BAR 13	WGI 15	MON	MIL	HOM 9			16th	146	[11]
2010	Racers Edge Motorsports	GT	Mazda RX-8 GT	Mazda 2.0L 3-Rotor	DAY 28	HOM 17	BAR 2	VIR 6	LIM 11	WGI 6	LEX 3	DAY 8	NJ 9	WGI 10	MON	MIL 11			11th	248	[12]
2011	Autohaus Motorsport	GT	Chevrolet Camaro GT.R	Chevrolet 6.0L V8	DAY 14	HOM 6	BAR 7	VIR 1	LIM 2	WGI 2	ROA 5	LAG 10	NJ 4	WGI 2	MON 9	LEX 8			2nd	317	[13]
2012	Autohaus Motorsports	GT	Chevrolet Camaro GT.R	Chevrolet 6.0L V8	DAY 9	BAR 6	HOM 9	NJ 5	DET 1	LEX 9	ELK 9	WGI 5	IMS 10	WGI DP 6	MON	LGA	LIM		15th	211	[14]
2013	Wayne Taylor Racing	DP	Dallara Corvette DP	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	DAY 2	COA 10	BAR 1	ATL 6	DET 1	LEX 6	WGI 10	IMS 15	ROA 7	KAN 1	LGA 1	LIM 1			1st	339	[15]

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Rank	Points	Ref
2012	Corvette Racing	GT	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	SEB 2	LBH	LAG	LIM	MOS	LEX	ROA	BAL	VIR	PET 2	18th	20	[16]
2013	Corvette Racing	GT	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	SEB 11	LBH	LAG	LIM	MOS	ROA	BAL	COA	VIR	PET 6	26th	10	[17]

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
2021	Corvette Racing	Nicky Catsburg Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	GTE Pro	345	21st	2nd
2022	Corvette Racing	Nicky Catsburg Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	GTE Pro	214	DNF	DNF
2024	Sprit of Race	Conrad Laursen Johnny Laursen	Ferrari 296 GT3	LMGT3	279	35th	8th
Source:[9]

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points	Ref
2014	Wayne Taylor Racing	P	Dallara Corvette DP	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	DAY 2	SEB 7	LBH 2	LGA 2	DET 1	WGL 5	MOS 3	IMS 4	ELK 10	COA 7	PET 1	2nd	330	[18]
2015	Wayne Taylor Racing	P	Dallara Corvette DP	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	DAY 16	SEB 2	LBH 1	LGA 2	DET 6	WGL 6	MOS 1	ELK 8	COA 2	PET 4		5th	292	[19]
2016	Wayne Taylor Racing	P	Dallara Corvette DP	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	DAY 2	SEB 12	LBH 1	LGA 6	DET 1	WGL 4	MOS 3	ELK 3	COA 1	PET 3		3rd	309	[20]
2017	Wayne Taylor Racing	P	Cadillac DPi-V.R	Cadillac 6.2 L V8	DAY 1	SEB 1	LBH 1	COA 1	DET 1	WGL 6	MOS 7	ELK 2	LGA 3	PET 9		1st	310	[21]
2018	Wayne Taylor Racing	P	Cadillac DPi-V.R	Cadillac 5.5 L V8	DAY 15	SEB 2	LBH 3	MDO 5	DET 5	WGL 5	MOS 2	ELK 4	LGA 12	PET 1		3rd	270	[22]
2019	Konica Minolta Cadillac	DPi	Cadillac DPi-V.R	Cadillac 5.5 L V8	DAY 1	SEB 2	LBH 10	MDO 6	DET 9	WGL 4	MOS 6	ELK 5	LGA 4	PET 2		4th	274	[23]
2020	Corvette Racing	GTLM	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	Chevrolet 5.5 L V8	DAY 4	DAY 1	SEB 2	ELK 1	VIR 1	ATL 5	MDO 1	CLT 1	PET 2	LGA 2	SEB 5	1st	351	[24]
2021	Corvette Racing	GTLM	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	Chevrolet 5.5 L V8	DAY 1	SEB 4	DET 2†	WGL 1	WGL 1	LIM 1	ELK 2	LGA 2	LBH 2	VIR 2	PET 6	1st	3549	[25]
2022	Corvette Racing	GTD Pro	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTD	Chevrolet 5.5 L V8	DAY 6	SEB 1	LBH 3	LGA 4	WGL 6	MOS 2	LIM 4	ELK 3	VIR 2	PET 5		3rd	3194	[26]
2023	Corvette Racing	GTD Pro	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTD	Chevrolet 5.5 L V8	DAY 2	SEB 5	LBH 2	LGA 4	WGL 3	MOS 1	LIM 4	ELK 3	VIR 1	IMS 5	PET 7	3rd	3579	[27]
2024	Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport	GTP	Acura ARX-06	Acura AR24e 2.4 L Turbo V6	DAY 3	SEB 1	LBH 10	LGA 4	DET 5	WGL 4	ELK 8	IMS 11	PET 7			5th	2603	[28]
Source:[9]

^† Non-points event.

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year	Team	Class	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Rank	Points
2017	Cadillac Racing	SprintX GT	Cadillac ATS-V.R	VIR1 4	VIR2 3	MOS 1	LIM1 4	LIM2 2	UTA1 8	UTA2 3	COA1 4	COA2 6	COA3 Ret	1st	175

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

NASCAR Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NCSC	Pts	Ref
2023	Hendrick Motorsports	9	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	PHO	ATL	COA 24	RCH	BRD	MAR	TAL	DOV	KAN	DAR	CLT	GTW	SON	NSH	CSC	ATL	NHA	POC	RCH	MCH	IRC	GLN	DAY	DAR	KAN	BRI	TEX	TAL	ROV	LVS	HOM	MAR	PHO	53rd	01	[29]

NASCAR Xfinity Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	NXSC	Pts	Ref
2023	Kaulig Racing	10	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	PHO	ATL	COA	RCH	MAR	TAL	DOV	DAR	CLT	PIR 27	SON	NSH	CSC	ATL	NHA	POC	ROA	MCH	IRC	GLN	DAY	DAR	KAN	BRI	TEX						55th	21	[30]
		11																														ROV 16	LVS	HOM	MAR	PHO

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

• Jordan Taylor driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Jordan Taylor career summary at DriverDB.com

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 (IMSA SportsCar Championship Prototype post-merger)
Preceded by Dane Cameron Eric Curran	IMSA SportsCar Championship Champion 2017 With: Ricky Taylor	Succeeded by Felipe Nasr Eric Curran
Preceded by Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	IMSA SportsCar Championship GTLM Champion 2020-2021 With: Antonio García	Succeeded by Matt Campbell Mathieu Jaminet (GTD Pro)