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JORDAN TAYLOR, RYAN HUNTER-REAY Konica Minolta DPi-V.R Team Report Round 2 of 10 – 66th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring

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

Event: 12-hour IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Sebring (Fla.) International Raceway (3.74-mile, 17-turn road course).

Live Broadcast (race time 10:40 a.m. EST Saturday): FS1 – 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; FS2 – 12:30 to 3:40 p.m.; FOXSportsGO – 3:40 to 6 p.m.; FS2 – 6 to 11 p.m. Friday qualifying – 12:30 to 1:35 p.m. (Prototype class at 1:20 p.m.) via IMSA.tv and the IMSA mobile app.

Driver Lineup in the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R for the 66th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring:

Driver: Jordan Taylor Driver: Renger van der Zande Driver: Ryan Hunter-Reay

Birthdate: May 10, 1991 Birthdate: Feb. 16, 1986 Birthdate: Dec. 17, 1980

Birthplace: Orlando, Florida Birthplace: Dodewaard, Netherlands Birthplace: Dallas

Residence: Apopka, Florida Residence: Amsterdam Residence: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Personal: Single Personal: Wife, Carlijn Personal: Wife, Beccy

Daughter, Lola Sons, Ryden, Rocsen, Rhodes

Wayne Taylor Racing Sebring Performance Profile: Year Drivers Event Start Finish Status/Laps Laps Led , , 2017 6 1 Running/348 123 Jordan Taylor , Jordan Taylor, 8 12 Electrical/169 2 Ricky Taylor, Ricky Taylor, Jordan Taylor, 7 2 Running/340 0 Max Angelelli Ricky Taylor, Max Angelelli, 3 7 Running/291 2 Jordan Taylor

Wayne Taylor Racing History:

Year Races Wins Podiums Top-5s Top-10s Poles 2018 1 0 0 0 0 1 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 131 29 69 82 112 29

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Notes of Interest:

 Round two of the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship takes the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R driving trio of Jordan Taylor, Renger van der Zande and Ryan Hunter-Reay to iconic Sebring (Fla.) International Raceway for Saturday’s 66th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.  Taylor and his older brother Ricky Taylor won this event convincingly a year ago with third driver Alex Lynn of Great Britain, crossing the finish line 13 seconds ahead of the runner-up No. 5 Cadillac DPi-V.R of , Joao Barbosa and Felipe Albuquerque to lead a 1-2-3 Cadillac sweep of the podium. The No. 31 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R. of , and finished third, a lap down.  The Konica Minolta Cadillac team led 123 of the 348 laps around the 3.74-mile, 17-turn Sebring circuit a year ago, taking charge of the race in the closing hours after a crafty fuel-saving strategy.  The 2017 Sebring victory made it back-to-back wins to open the season after the Taylor brothers, now retired Italian veteran Max “The Ax” Angelelli and four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion co-drove to victory at the Rolex 24 At Daytona. It also came 21 years to the day since their father and team owner, three-time sportscar champion Wayne Taylor, locked down back-to-back victories at Daytona and Sebring.  Ricky Taylor and Cameron have since left their respective teams from a year ago to join the new, two-car Prototype-class effort for 2018, opening the door for new full-time co-driver van der Zande, the Dutch sportscar veteran, alongside the younger Taylor brother in the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R.  Ricky Taylor’s departure ended a four-year run of co-driving with his younger brother. In 41 races together, they scored 12 wins, 25 podium finishes and nine pole positions.  Van der Zande is a 32-year-old from Amsterdam and co-drove with Belgian sportscar ace last season in the No. 90 Prototype-class entry, scoring a signature win thanks to his dramatic pass for the lead during the closing moments of September’s penultimate round at Laguna Seca, as well as a solid podium finish at the Rolex 24. Van der Zande has been a recent fixture on the IMSA WeatherTech circuit, scoring nine race wins, 18 podium finishes and the 2016 championship for the LMPC-class team during a three-year run that begin in 2014. Prior to his arrival on the North American scene in 2013, he had driven in virtually every major racing series worldwide, including Formula Renault, A1GP, GP2, German Touring Car, World Endurance Championship, SuperCup, and the Blancpain Endurance Series. His professional career began to take shape when he won the 2005 Formula Renault 2.0 championship in his native country.  Hunter-Reay returned at last year’s season-ending at to the team with which he co-drove to a runner-up finish at the 2013 Rolex 24 At Daytona alongside Taylor and Angelelli, when they led 56 of 709 laps and were beaten only behind the No. 01 Racing entry. He is the most successful active American driver in open-wheel competition, having won the 2012 IndyCar Series championship, the 2014 500, was the 2008 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, and has 16 career IndyCar victories and six career pole positions. Last season was his eighth season driving for , racing car No. 28 to represent the 28 million people living with cancer worldwide. Hunter- Reay opened the 2018 IndyCar season last weekend with a solid fifth-place finish in the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (Fla.).  At this year’s season-opening Rolex 24, van der Zande qualified the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R on the pole in his maiden qualifying voyage with his new team. He led the opening 18 laps of the race and he and Taylor and Hunter-Reay stayed comfortably with the leaders over the first third of the race. But various issues ultimately cost several laps while making repairs and unscheduled pit stops and the team retired during the 17th hour and left Daytona credited with 15th place.  That disappointing result ended a remarkable five-year run for the team at the 3.56-mile, 12-turn Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway road course, during which it put nary a wheel off, logged respective race-day finishes of second, second, third, second and first, and led just short of 1,000 laps along the way.  Two years ago this weekend, the Taylor brothers and Angelelli were joined by former star Rubens Barrichello for the second race in a row but had to settle for a disappointing 12th-place finish in the Sebring 12-hour when electrical issues ended their race three hours from the finish.  Three years ago this weekend, the Taylor brothers and Angelelli overcame bizarre issues and an early race incident to score a solid runner-up finish at Sebring.  Four years ago this weekend, in the team’s first-ever visit to Sebring, Ricky Taylor qualified third but he and his brother and Angelelli could finish no better than seventh after a triple-whammy of incidents set them back. The decisive incident occurred during the final 90 minutes of the race with Taylor running third. An LMPC-class car ahead of him spewed oil all over the No. 10 Corvette’s windscreen and, moments later, Taylor found himself venturing off course in the darkness with his visibility severely hampered. That necessitated an unscheduled to clear the windscreen and Taylor could not overcome the deficit to the leaders thereafter, particularly with a 35-minute caution period stopping any progress he could make. Early in the race, Angelelli was penalized for entering a closed pit lane and, near the race’s midpoint, Jordan Taylor had to make an unscheduled stop to clear grass and mud from the radiator grille after having to venture off course to avoid a heavy collision between two other competitors ahead of him.  Jordan Taylor will be making his seventh Sebring appearance after having driven for Corvette Racing in the GT class of the 2012 and 2013 enduros with teammates and Antonio Garcia in the No. 3 Corvette C6.R. They finished second in class in 2012 and 11th in 2013.  This weekend marks the fifth career Sebring appearance for van der Zande. He drove for the Starworks Motorsport Prototype Challenge-class team from 2014 through 2016 and logged podium finishes of third in 2014 and 2016 and a fifth-place finish in 2015. Last year, he finished sixth overall in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona entry alongside Goosens and Rene Rast.  Hunter-Reay will be making his eighth career Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring appearance, his first in 2002 in the JMB Racing GT-class , followed by four in a row from 2010 through 2013 with the team. He scored a class win with the latter team alongside Luis Diaz in 2011, and a runner-up finish in 2013 with Scott Tucker and fellow IndyCar Series regular . After a seventh-place Sebring finish GTD-class finish in 2015 with the SRT Motorsports Viper team, Hunter-Reay logged a top-five overall run in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona entry alongside Goosens and .  Hunter-Reay’s history with the No. 10 team began with Angelelli and Wayne Taylor at the 2006 Rolex Series season finale at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, when the No. 10 led a race-high 53 laps but was relegated to a 14th-place finish due to late-race electrical gremlins. His most recent event with the team was last year’s season-ending Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, which resulted in a ninth-place finish after an early race mechanical issue.  The No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R team is the defending series champion, having scored a remarkable five consecutive race wins to open the 2017 season, adding victories at the (Calif., for the third year in a row), in Austin, Texas (for the second year in a row) and on The Streets of Belle Isle circuit in downtown Detroit (their fourth in five seasons) after their Rolex 24 and Sebring 12-hour victories. They added back-to-back podium finishes the second half of the season at in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin and Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California en route to clinching the championship simply by taking the green flag at the season-ending Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. -more-

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 The five consecutive victories tied the major North American-based sportscar series record first set in 2001 by the R8 prototype duo of and , who opened with five consecutive victories top open the 2001 season that combined and events – in Fort Worth, Sebring, Donington (England) Park, the Jarama Circuit in Madrid, and Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway. Capello and Kristensen won eight of the 10 events on that combined 2001 schedule.  Last year’s championship was the first for the No. 10 team since Angelelli and Jordan Taylor swept the final three races of the 2013 season in dominating fashion to win the final GRAND-AM championship. The final three victories came back-to-back-to-back at in Kansas City, Laguna Seca, and the season finale at in Lakeville, Connecticut. Taylor and Angelelli had overcome a 19-point deficit in the championship over the final four races to claim the driver championship.  In 2005, Angelelli and Wayne Taylor powered their way to the Rolex Series driver and team championships with five wins and 10 podium finishes in 14 races in the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Pontiac. They set a record by completing all 2,056 laps contested that season. That season started with a resounding Rolex 24 victory.  Last year’s Rolex 24 Daytona victory was during the maiden voyage of the all-new Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R, and it represented manufacturer Cadillac’s return to Prototype-class racing for the first time since Wayne Taylor and Angelelli campaigned the Cadillac Northstar LMP entry from 2000 to 2002.

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 Poles: 1 Wins: 0 Podiums: 0 Top-5: 0 Top-10: 0

Laps led: 18 Laps completed: 555 of 808 (62.5%) Avg. start: 1.00 Avg. finish: 15.0

Primary Team Members: Over-The-Wall Crew:

Owner: Wayne Taylor (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) Tire Changer: Doug Bradley

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

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

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

Asst. Engineer: Adam Banet (Floyd Knobs, Ind.) Fire Bottle: Kyle Gibson

Mechanics/Crew: Doug Bradley (Estherville, Iowa), Bill Mullen (Hamilton, ), Driver Change Assist: Bill Mullen

David Nisbet (East Grand Forks, Minn.), Chris Seaman Pit Board: Nick Voils (Hamburg, Pa.) Nicholas Voils (Indianapolis) Tire Assist: Matt Brogan

Truck Driver: Deadman: Hali Money 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: 19.8 gallons.

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

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

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

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

Tilton Clutch: 5.5 Carbon Disc.

XTRAC Gearbox: P1159F, transverse sequential six-.

KYB Steering: Electrically assisted rack-and-pinion.

Suspension: Front/rear double wishbone independent pushrod.

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

Weight/Length/Width/Height: 2,050 pounds / 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.

Continental Tires: Front 320/680-R18; rear 325/710-R18.

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