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
2012 GT car
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 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.
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]
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.[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]
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