Wayne Taylor Racing

Wayne Taylor Racing

File:Wayne Taylor Racing Logo.png
Founded	2004
Team principal(s)	Wayne Taylor (Owner; Team Principal) Travis Houge (VP, General Manager) Brian Pillar (Technical Director)
Current series	WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
Former series	Rolex Sports Car Series
Current drivers	10. 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.

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. 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	Max Angelelli 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	Max Angelelli 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	Max Angelelli 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	Ricky Taylor 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	Ricky Taylor 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	Ricky Taylor 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	Ricky Taylor 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	Jordan Taylor 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	Jordan Taylor 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	Renger van der Zande 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	Filipe Albuquerque 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	Filipe Albuquerque Ricky Taylor	10	2	4	6	1	1	4	1	6	1	6				2nd	3346

Notable race victories

• 24 Hours of Daytona – 2005, 2017, 2019, and 2020
• 12 Hours of Sebring – 2017
• Petit Le Mans - 2014, 2018, 2020

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship wins

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

External links

• Official website