Jordan Taylor (racing driver)


Jordan Taylor is an American professional racing driver. He currently competes in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Corvette Racing. He won the 2017 24 Hours of Daytona and the 2017 championship in the Prototype class of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Jordan also won the 2013 Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototypes class and was 2014 United SportsCar Championship Prototypes class runner-up. Also Jordan won the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans GTE-Pro class in a Chevrolet Corvette C7.R.
Jordan 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 2014–2017. In 2018, he partnered with Renger van der Zande, as Ricky moved to Acura Team Penske.

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. For the 2017 IMSA season, Taylor drove the new Cadillac DPi-V.R. in the new Daytona Prototype International class.
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. 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 Darrell Waltrip to call for security.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

YearTeamClassMakeEngine1234567891011RankPoints
2014Wayne Taylor RacingPDallara Corvette DPChevrolet 5.5L V8DAY
2		SEB
7		LBH
2		LGA
2		DET
1		WGL
5		MOS
3		IMS
4		ELK
10		COA
7		PET
1		2nd330
2015Wayne Taylor RacingPDallara Corvette DPChevrolet 5.5L V8DAY
16		SEB
2		LBH
1		LGA
2		DET
6		WGL
6		MOS
1		ELK
8		COA
2		PET
4		5th292
2016Wayne Taylor RacingPDallara Corvette DPChevrolet 5.5L V8DAY
2		SEB
12		LBH
1		LGA
6		DET
1		WGL
4		MOS
3		ELK
3		COA
1		PET
3		3rd309
2017Wayne Taylor RacingPCadillac DPi-V.RCadillac 6.2 L V8DAY
1		SEB
1		LBH
1		COA
1		DET
1		WGL
6		MOS
7		ELK
2		LGA
3		PET
9		1st310
2018Wayne Taylor RacingPCadillac DPi-V.RCadillac 5.5 L V8DAY
15		SEB
2		LBH
3		MDO
5		DET
5		WGL
5		MOS
2		ELK
4		LGA
12		PET
1		3rd270
2019Konica Minolta CadillacDPiCadillac DPi-V.RCadillac 5.5 L V8DAY
1		SEB
2		LBH
10		MDO
6		DET
9		WGL
4		MOS
6		ELK
5		LGA
4		PET
2		4th274
2020Corvette RacingGTLMChevrolet Corvette C8.RChevrolet 5.5 L V8DAY
4		DAY
1		SEB
2		ELK
VIR
WGL
LIM
MDO
PET
LGA
SEB
1st*95*

* Season still in progress.