JORDAN TAYLOR, , Konica Minolta DPi-V.R Team Report Round 1 of 10 – Rolex 24 – Daytona

At-Track PR Contact: Laz Denes with True Speed Communication (256-717-8014 or [email protected]).

Event: 24-hour IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway (3.56-mile, 12-turn speedway road course).

Live Broadcast (race time 2:35 p.m. EST Saturday): NBCSN – 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday; NBC Sports App – 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday; NBCSN – 9 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday; NBC Sports App – 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday; NBCSN – 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Thursday qualifying – 3 to 5 p.m. on NBCSN (DPi class at 4:25 p.m.).

Driver Lineup in the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R for the 57th Rolex 24 At Daytona:

Driver: Jordan Taylor Driver: Renger van der Zande

Birthdate: May 10, 1991 Birthdate: Feb. 16, 1986

Birthplace: Orlando, Florida Birthplace: Dodewaard,

Residence: Apopka, Florida Residence: Amsterdam

Personal: Single Personal: Wife, Carlijn Daughter, Lola; Son, Lux Wolf

Driver: Kamui Kobayashi Driver: Fernando Alonso

Birthdate: Sept. 13, 1986 Birthdate: July 29, 1981

Birthplace: Amagasaki, Japan Birthplace: Oviedo, Spain

Residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco Residence: Lugano, Switzerland

Personal: Single Personal: Single

Wayne Taylor Racing Rolex 24 Performance Profile: Year Drivers Event Start Finish Status/Laps Laps Led Renger van der Zande, 2018 Rolex 24 At Daytona 1 15 Retired/555 18 Ryan Hunter-Reay, Jordan Taylor , , 263 2017 Rolex 24 At Daytona 4 1 Running/659 , Jordan Taylor (race-high) Ricky Taylor, Jordan Taylor, 152 2016 Rolex 24 At Daytona 4 2 Running/736 Max Angelelli, (race-high) Ricky Taylor, Max Angelelli, 265 2015 Rolex 24 At Daytona 7 *16 Running/740 Jordan Taylor (race-high) Ricky Taylor, Max Angelelli, 2014 Rolex 24 At Daytona 6 2 Running/695 227 , Jordan Taylor Max Angelelli, Jordan Taylor, 2013 Rolex 24 At Daytona 12 2 Running/709 56 Ryan Hunter-Reay Max Angelelli, Ricky Taylor, 2012 Rolex 24 At Daytona 2 14 Mechanical/14 0 Max Angelelli, Ricky Taylor, 2011 Rolex 24 At Daytona 2 5 Running/720 36 Ryan Briscoe Max Angelelli, Ricky Taylor, 2010 Rolex 24 At Daytona 1 6 Running/711 7 Wayne Taylor, Max Angelelli, Brian Frisselle, 2009 Rolex 24 At Daytona 7 4 Running/735 56 Wayne Taylor, Pedro Lamy Max Angelelli, , 2008 Rolex 24 At Daytona 4 5 Running/687 10 Wayne Taylor, Ricky Taylor Max Angelelli, Wayne Taylor, 2007 Rolex 24 At Daytona 2 3 Running/666 30 Jeff Gordon,

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Wayne Taylor Racing History:

Year Races Wins Podiums Top-5s Top-10s Poles

2018 10 1 4 8 8 2 2017 10 5 7 7 10 5 2016 10 3 7 8 9 1 2015 10 2 5 6 9 3 2014 11 2 6 8 11 0 2013 12 5 6 6 10 3 2012 13 3 4 7 11 2 2011 12 3 8 10 10 6 2010 12 1 7 7 11 3 2009 12 2 6 7 9 0 2008 14 1 4 5 10 4 2007 14 2 9 11 12 1 TOTAL 140 30 73 90 120 30

Notes of Interest:  Full-time co-drivers Jordan Taylor and Renger van der Zande of the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R return to the scene of their team’s thrilling 2017 victory joined by two-time champion Fernando Alonso and former Formula One and current FIA World Endurance Championship star Kamui Kobayashi for this weekend’s 57th renewal of the iconic Rolex 24 At Daytona, the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season opener.  Taylor and his older brother Ricky Taylor co-drove to the 2017 Rolex 24 win with now-retired Italian veteran Max “The Ax” Angelelli and four- time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon. It was the first of five wins in a row for the Taylor brothers to start the season, and it catapulted them to the series driver and team titles by a 19-point margin.  Ricky Taylor, whose daring, late-race pass of race leader Felipe Albuquerque in the No. 5 Cadillac DPi-V.R earned the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R team the 2017 Rolex 24 win, left to join the new, two-car Prototype-class entry for 2018 to open the door for van der Zande, the Dutch sportscar veteran, to join the younger Taylor as full-time co-driver a year ago this weekend.  Van der Zande helped the team pick up where it left off on the 3.56-mile, 12-turn Daytona superspeedway road circuit when he qualified on the pole for last year’s Rolex 24 in his maiden qualifying voyage with his new team. He led the opening 18 laps of the race, and he and Jordan Taylor and IndyCar Series veteran Ryan Hunter-Reay stayed comfortably with the leaders over the first third of the race. But various issues ultimately cost several unscheduled pit stops and laps while making repairs, and the team retired during the 17th hour and left Daytona credited with 15th place.  Taylor, van der Zande and Hunter-Reay rebounded with a solid runner-up finish in last year’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, and closed the season together with a thrilling victory thanks to van der Zande’s last-lap pass at the at Road Atlanta in October.  With the Petit Le Mans victory and four podium finishes in all, Taylor and van der Zande rallied to finish third in the final 2018 championship standings, seven points out of first.  The 27-year-old Taylor will be making his 12th career Rolex 24 start this weekend and his seventh in a row with the team. Prior to last year’s disappointing 15th-place result, he and the team logged five consecutive race-weekend finishes on the podium, highlighted by the 2017 victory and runner-up finishes in 2013 (with Angelelli and Hunter-Reay), 2014 (with Ricky Taylor, his father Wayne Taylor and Angelelli), and 2016 (with Ricky Taylor, Angelelli and former Formula One star Rubens Barrichello). The team’s third-place finish in 2015 was amended to a 16th-place result five days after the race due to a maximum drivetime violation.  In those five consecutive Rolex 24s from 2013 through 2017, the No. 10 Prototype led 963 of 3,359 laps – 27.2 percent, the last three showing race- high totals of 265 laps in 2015, 152 in 2016, and 263 in 2017, preceded by 227 laps led in 2014 that was second-highest for the race.  This weekend’s race marks the sixth career Rolex 24 for the 32-year-old van der Zande. Prior to his third-place finish with Spirit of Daytona Racing in 2017, he scored LMPC-class finishes of fifth, sixth and fourth with the team.  Alonso, the 37-year-old Spaniard, will be making his second career and second consecutive Rolex 24 appearance and his first race of any kind since embarking on a sabbatical from full-time F1 competition after November’s 2018 season finale in Abu Dhabi. It was his 17th F1 season, the last four of which were spent with McLaren. Alonso’s first career Rolex 24 a year ago came with the United Autosport LMP2-car effort, which resulted in a 13th- place finish due to mechanical issues. Alonso owns 32 career F1 victories and back-to-back world championships in 2005 and 2006. He’s also enjoyed recent success in the WEC. His No. 8 Gazoo Racing team leads the WEC 2018-19 superseason standings after back-to-back victories at Spa- Francorchamps and in his debut, followed by consecutive runner-up finishes at Fuji and Shanghai.  It will be the first career Rolex 24 for Kobayashi, the 32-year-old from Japan who is in his third season with Toyota Gazoo Racing and currently co- drives that team’s No. 7 entry, which is second in the superseason standings after runner-up finishes at at Spa-Francorchamps and Le Mans, followed by victories at Fuji and Shanghai. Prior to his current success in the WEC, Kobayashi was a fixture on the F1 circuit. He made his F1 debut with Toyota at the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix and followed that with a points-paying finish of sixth at that season’s final race in Abu Dhabi. He then drove for Sauber from 2010 through 2012, highlighted by a podium finish at the – the first F1 podium by a Japanese driver in 22 years – followed by a season with Caterham in 2014.  Wayne Taylor, the three-time sportscar-racing champion as a driver and two-time champion as a team owner, will be inducted into the South African Hall of Fame in his native country during special ceremonies slated for Feb. 24 in Sun City. He will join an elite list of inductees already enshrined that features philanthropist and former president Nelson Mandela, golfers Gary Player and Sally Little, racecar drivers Jody and Ian Scheckter and , surfer Shaun Tomson, and Olympic athletes Sydney Maree and Zola Budd.

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2018 Results:

Date Site Drivers Start Finish Laps Laps Led Status Points/Pos. Renger van der Zande 1/27- Daytona Ryan Hunter-Reay 1 15 555/808 18 Retired 19/15th 28 (24 hours) Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande Sebring 3/17 Jordan Taylor 10 2 344/344 8 Running 48/5th (12 hours) Ryan Hunter-Reay Long Beach Renger van der Zande 4/14 6 3 70/70 0 Running 78/4th (1hr40m) Jordan Taylor Mid-Ohio Renger van der Zande 5/6 5 5 125/125 0 Running 104/3rd (2hr40m) Jordan Taylor Detroit Renger van der Zande 6/2 7 5 68/68 0 Running 130/3rd (lhr40m) Jordan Taylor Watkins Glen Renger van der Zande 7/1 8 5 202/202 4 Running 156/3rd (6 hours) Jordan Taylor Bowmanville Renger van der Zande 71 7/8 4 2 116/116 Running 188/3rd (2hr40m) Jordan Taylor (race-high) Renger van der Zande 8/5 4 4 69/69 8 Running 216/4th (2hr40m) Jordan Taylor Laguna Seca Jordan Taylor 9/9 1 12 18/103 0 Mechanical 235/4th (2hr40m) Renger van der Zande Renger van der Zande Road Atlanta 10/13 Jordan Taylor 12 1 443/443 56 Running 270/3rd (10 hours) Ryan Hunter-Reay Poles: 2 Wins: 1 Podiums: 4 Top-5: 8 Top-10: 8

Laps led: 165 Laps completed: 2,010 of 2,348 (85.6%) Avg. start: 5.80 Avg. finish: 5.40

Primary Team Members: Over-The-Wall Crew:

Owner: Wayne Taylor (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) Front Tire Changer: Michael Langston

Team Manager: Travis Houge (Dolliver, Iowa) Rear Tire Changer: Chris Bennett

Crew Chief: Chris Bennett (Indianapolis) Airjack: Chris Bennett

Race Engineer: Brian Pillar (Alliston, Ontario, Canada) Fueler: Chris Seaman

Asst. Engineer: Adam Banet (Floyd Knobs, Ind.) Fire Bottle: Paul Sheehan

Mechanics/Crew: Derrick Barnes (Indianapolis), Levi Beasley (Indianapolis), Frank Driver Change Assist: Bill Mullen

Camacho (Long Beach, Calif.), Chad Hurst (Speedway, Ind.), Tire Assist: Derrick Barnes, Paul Sheehan

Brett Knostman (Orange, Calif.), Michael Langston (Pearl, Miss.), Deadperson: Hali Money Hali Money (Brownsburg, Ind.), Bill Mullen (Hamilton, Ohio), Tire Carrier: Nick Voils Chris Seaman (Hamburg, Pa.), Chris Sheffer (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Keith Stein (Highland, Ind.), Evan Thompson Signboard: Derrick Barnes

(Brownsburg, Ind.), Nicholas Voils (Indianapolis).

Fire Bottle: Chad Hurst Truck Driver: Paul Sheehan (Olivia, Minn.)

Car Specifications:

Car: No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R

Dallara Chassis: Carbon fiber monocoque with aluminum honeycomb and Zylon side panels. Carbon fiber bodywork with

Kevlar panel inserts. Cadillac Engine: Cadillac V-Performance-based 5.5-liter V-8 with production-based aluminum block and heads. Earnhardt- Childress Racing-designed, semi-stressed engine mounting system with integral oil lubrication. Lubrication: self-contained dry sump system. Dynamic pressure (ram-air) intake system with IMSA-mandated sonic air restrictors. Rear-facing, top-exit, dual-outlet, multi-branch exhaust header system. Produces approximately 580 horsepower at 7,050 rpm (IMSA mandated power level).

Fuel Capacity: 18.49 gallons (70 liters).

Bosch Engine Management: MS5.0 ECU, C60 data logger, traction control.

Cosworth Electronics: Power: IPS48, SSR300A, RLU, RSP20.

Data: CLU Plus Pro. Gentex Rear-View Camera: GNTX-R, Rear-Camera Mirror.

Cosworth Steering Wheel: CCW Mk2, paddle shift, 4.5-inch TFT LCD.

Tilton Clutch: 5.5 Carbon Disc.

XTRAC Gearbox: P1159F, transverse sequential six-speed.

KYB Steering: Electrically assisted rack-and-pinion.

Suspension: Front/rear double wishbone independent pushrod.

Brembo Brakes: Monobloc six-piston light aluminum calipers, carbon fiber discs and pads.

Weight/Length/Width/Height: 2,050 pounds (930 kg)/15.58 feet (187 inches)/6.23 feet (74.8 inches)/3.78 feet (45.3 inches).

Motegi Racing Wheels: Forged AL6061-T6 rims. Front 18.0 inches x 12.5 inches; rear 18.0 inches x 13.0 inches.

Michelin Tires: Front 300/680-R18; rear 310/710-R18.

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