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United States Wayne Taylor Racing
File:Wayne Taylor Racing Logo.png
Founded2004
Team principal(s)Wayne Taylor (Owner; Team Principal)
Travis Houge (VP, General Manager)
Brian Pillar (Technical Director)
Current seriesWeatherTech SportsCar Championship
Former seriesRolex Sports Car Series
Current drivers10. Filipe Albuquerque
Ricky Taylor
Will Stevens (enduros)
Alexander Rossi (Rolex 24)
Drivers'
Championships
3 ('05, '13 Grand-Am, '17 IMSA)
Jordan Taylor, Renger van der Zande, and Ryan Hunter-Reay sharing the team's Cadillac DPi-V.R at the 2018 12 Hours of Sebring.

Wayne Taylor Racing is a sports car racing team that competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship Daytona Prototype International class. The team campaigns the No. 10 Konica Minolta sponsored Acura ARX-06 full-time for Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor.[1]

History

The team was founded in 2004 as the Riley Technologies factory team, with title sponsorship from bank holding company SunTrust. The lineup of Wayne Taylor and Max Angelelli finished second in the Daytona Prototype teams championship in 2004 and won the Daytona Prototype team and driver championships in 2005.

For the 2007 season, Riley and Wayne Taylor split ways and Wayne Taylor Racing began to run the #10 SunTrust Racing entry.[2] Wayne Taylor retired as a driver for the 2008 season and signed Michael Valiante as second driver; also the team switched to a Dallara chassis. In 2009, Ford engines were adopted and Brian Frisselle became the second driver.

For the 2010 season, Angelelli was joined by Ricky Taylor, son of Wayne Taylor. They collected a win and seven podiums, finishing runners-up. In 2011, SunTrust Racing switched to Chevrolet engines; they won three races and got eight podiums, resulting runners-up. After adopting the Corvette DP3 chassis, the duo got three wins in 2012 and resulted 6th in the drivers standings.

In 2013, Wayne Taylor Racing lost the SunTrust sponsorship. Ricky Taylor left the team, and was replaced by Jordan Taylor, also son of Wayne Taylor. Angelelli and Jordan Taylor would go on to win the final Daytona Prototype championship before the merger of Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series in 2014, winning five races, including the final three.

For 2014, the first year of the United SportsCar Championship, Angelelli will enter into a semi-retirement, racing with the team for the endurance events. Ricky Taylor rejoins the team to drive full-time alongside brother Jordan.

Suntrust Pontiac-Riley Daytona Prototype campaigned in 2005.

Racing results

Year Chassis Engine Drivers No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos. Pts.
2011   DAY HOM BAR VIR LIM WGI ROA LAG NJMP WGI CGV MDO  
Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8 Italy Max Angelelli
United States Ricky Taylor
10 5 3 11 4 1 1 3 3 2 1 2 11 2nd 353
2012   DAY BAR HOM NJMP DET MDO ROA WGI IMS WGI CGV LAG LIM  
Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8 Italy Max Angelelli
United States Ricky Taylor
10 14 5 1 1 10 9 7 11 3 4 5 7 1 6th 343
2013   DAY COTA BAR ATL DET MDO WGI IMS ROA KAN LAG LIM  
Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8 Italy Max Angelelli
United States Jordan Taylor
10 2 10 1 6 1 6 10 15 7 1 1 1 1st 339
2014   DAY SEB LBH LAG DET WGI MOS IMS ROA COTA ATL  
Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8 United States Ricky Taylor
United States Jordan Taylor
10 2 7 2 2 1 5 3 4 10 7 1 2nd 330
2015   DAY SEB LBH LAG DET WGI MOS ROA COTA ATL  
Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8 United States Ricky Taylor
United States Jordan Taylor
10 16 2 1 2 6 6 1 8 2 4 5th 292
2016   DAY SEB LBH LAG DET WGI MOS ROA COTA ATL  
Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8 United States Ricky Taylor
United States Jordan Taylor
10 2 12 1 6 1 4 3 3 1 3 3rd 309
2017   DAY SEB LBH COTA DET WGI MOS ROA LAG ATL  
Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 6.2 L V8 United States Ricky Taylor
United States Jordan Taylor
10 1 1 1 1 1 6 7 2 3 9 1st 310
2018   DAY SEB LBH MDO DET WGI MOS ROA LAG ATL  
Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 6.2 L V8 United States Jordan Taylor
Netherlands Renger van der Zande
10 15 2 3 5 5 5 2 4 12 1 3rd 270
2019   DAY SEB LBH MDO DET WGI MOS ROA LAG ATL  
Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 6.2 L V8 United States Jordan Taylor
Netherlands Renger van der Zande
10 1 2 10 6 9 4 6 5 4 2 4th 274
2020   DAY DAY SEB ROA ATL MDO ATL LAG SEB  
Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 6.2 L V8 Netherlands Renger van der Zande
Australia Ryan Briscoe
10 1 6 2 2 5 3 1 6 7 2nd 264
2021   DAY SEB MDO DET WGI WGI ROA LAG LBH ATL  
Acura ARX-05 Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6 Portugal Filipe Albuquerque
United States Ricky Taylor
10 1 4 1 3 3 3 4 1 4 3 2nd 3396
2022   DAY SEB LBH LGA MDO DET WGL MOS ROA PET  
Acura ARX-05 Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6 Portugal Filipe Albuquerque
United States Ricky Taylor
10 2 4 6 1 1 4 1 6 1 6 2nd 3346

Notable race victories

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship wins

# Season Date Classes Track / Race No. Winning Drivers Chassis Engine
1 2014 May 31 Prototype Belle Isle 10 United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8
2 October 4 Prototype Road Atlanta 10 Italy Max Angelelli / United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8
3 2015 April 18 Prototype Long Beach 10 United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8
4 July 12 Prototype Mosport 10 United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8
5 2016 April 16 Prototype Long Beach 10 United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8
6 June 4 Prototype Belle Isle 10 United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8
7 September 17 Prototype Austin 10 United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Dallara Corvette DP Chevrolet 5.5L V8
8 2017 January 28–29 Prototype Daytona 10 Italy Max Angelelli / United States Jeff Gordon / United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 6.2 L V8
9 March 18 Prototype Sebring 10 United Kingdom Alex Lynn / United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 6.2 L V8
10 April 8 Prototype Long Beach 10 United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 6.2 L V8
11 May 6 Prototype Austin 10 United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 6.2 L V8
12 June 3 Prototype Belle Isle 10 United States Jordan Taylor / United States Ricky Taylor Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 6.2 L V8
13 2018 October 13 Prototype Road Atlanta 10 United States Ryan Hunter-Reay / United States Jordan Taylor / Netherlands Renger van der Zande Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 5.5 L V8
14 2019 January 26–27 (DPi) Daytona 10 Spain Alonso / Japan Kobayashi / United States J. Taylor / Netherlands van der Zande Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 5.5 L V8
15 2020 January 25–26 (DPi) Daytona 10 Australia Briscoe / New Zealand Dixon / Japan Kobayashi / Netherlands van der Zande Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 5.5 L V8
16 October 17 (DPi) Road Atlanta 10 Australia Briscoe / New Zealand Dixon / Netherlands van der Zande Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 5.5 L V8
17 2021 January 30–31 (DPi) Daytona 10 Portugal Albuquerque / Brazil Castroneves / United States Rossi / United States Ricky Taylor Acura ARX-05 Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6
18 May 16 (DPi) Mid-Ohio 10 Portugal Albuquerque / United States Ricky Taylor Acura ARX-05 Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6
19 September 12 (DPi) Laguna Seca 10 Portugal Albuquerque / United States Ricky Taylor Acura ARX-05 Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6

References

  1. ^ "WTR ANNOUNCES 2022 DRIVER LINE UP FOR IMSA WEATHERTECH DPI CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON". Wayne Taylor Racing. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  2. ^ SunTrust Team Reorganizes - Motor Racing Network, 26 May 2006