Jordan Taylor

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.

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 fifteenth. In 2009, he ran eight 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 fifth place in the LM GTE PRO No. 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. Taylor collected three wins and seven podiums in 2016 and was third in points.

Taylor also competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 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.

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, Taylor 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. 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.

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.

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

Racing record

Career summary 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† 24 Hours of Le Mans – Innovative Car Reserve driver 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 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship – GTP Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing 9 0 0 0 1 2304 10th NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Spire Motorsports 1 0 0 0 0 33 46th 2026 IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTP Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing 7 0 1 0 1 1913 9th* † As Taylor was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

24 Hours of Daytona results

American Le Mans Series results (key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

24 Hours of Le Mans results † Non-points event. Season still in progress.

Pirelli World Challenge results (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 VIR14 VIR23 MOS1 LIM14 LIM22 UTA18 UTA23 COA14 COA26 COA3Ret 1st 175

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

Cup Series 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 Pts Ref 2023 Hendrick Motorsports 9 Chevy DAY CAL LVS PHO ATL COA24 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

Xfinity Series 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 Pts Ref 2023 Kaulig Racing 10 Chevy DAY CAL LVS PHO ATL COA RCH MAR TAL DOV DAR CLT PIR27 SON NSH CSC ATL NHA POC ROA MCH IRC GLN DAY DAR KAN BRI TEX 55th 21 11 ROV16 LVS HOM MAR PHO

Craftsman Truck Series NASCAR Craftsman Truck 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 Pts Ref 2025 Spire Motorsports 7 Chevy DAY ATL LVS HOM MAR BRI CAR TEX KAN NWS CLT NSH MCH POC LRP20 IRP GLN RCH DAR BRI NHA ROV TAL MAR PHO 46th 33

Season still in progress Ineligible for series points

CARS Pro Late Model Tour (key) CARS Pro Late Model Tour results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pts Ref 2023 N/A 1 Chevy SNM HCY ACE NWS20 TCM DIL CRW WKS HCY TCM SBO TCM CRW 66th 13