JORDAN TAYLOR, RENGER VAN DER ZANDE RYAN HUNTER-REAY Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R Team Report Round 1 of 10 – 56th 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 2:40 p.m. EST Saturday): FOX – 2 to 5 p.m.; FS2 – 5 to 10 p.m.; FOXSportsGO – 10 to 11 p.m.; FS1 – 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday; FOXSportsGO – 1 to 8 a.m.; FS2 – 8 to 10:30 a.m.; FS1 – 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on. Thursday qualifying – 3:55 to 5 p.m. (Prototype class at 4:45 p.m.) via IMSA.tv and the IMSA mobile app. Driver Lineup in the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R for the 56th Rolex 24 At Daytona: 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 Rolex 24 Performance Profile: Year Drivers Event Start Finish Status/Laps Laps Led Ricky Taylor, Jeff Gordon, 263 2017 Rolex 24 At Daytona 4 1 Running 659 Max Angelelli, Jordan Taylor (race-high) Ricky Taylor, Jordan Taylor, 152 2016 Rolex 24 At Daytona 4 2 Running 736 Max Angelelli, Rubens Barrichello (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 Wayne Taylor, 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 Ryan Briscoe 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, Pedro Lamy Max Angelelli, Brian Frisselle, 2009 Rolex 24 At Daytona 7 4 Running/735 56 Wayne Taylor, Pedro Lamy Max Angelelli, Michael Valiante, 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, Jan Magnussen -more- Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R Team Report – 56th Rolex 24 At Daytona Page Two Wayne Taylor Racing History: Year Races Wins Podiums Top-5s Top-10s Poles 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 130 29 69 82 112 28 Notes of Interest: The new full-time co-driving tandem of Jordan Taylor and Renger van der Zande, joined by IndyCar Series veteran Ryan Hunter-Reay, open defense of the 2017 driver and team championships and 2017 Rolex 24 At Daytona race win by the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R team at this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season-opening Rolex 24. Taylor and his older brother Ricky Taylor co-drove to last year’s 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 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 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R earned the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R team last year’s Rolex 24 win, left to join the new, two-car Team Penske 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. 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. Their five consecutive victories to open the 2017 season came at the Rolex 24 (their first), the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring (their first), the Grand Prix of Long Beach (Calif., for the third year in a row), Circuit of the Americas 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). They added back-to-back podium finishes the second half of the season at Road America 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. The five consecutive victories by the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R team the first half of last season tied the major North American-based sportscar series record first set in 2001 by the Audi R8 prototype duo of Rinaldo Capello and Tom Kristensen, who opened with five consecutive victories top open the 2001 season that combined American Le Mans Series and European Le Mans Series events – Texas Motor Speedway 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. Van der Zande is a 31-year-old from Amsterdam and co-drove with Belgian sportscar ace Marc Goossens last season in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Racing 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 Starworks Motorsport 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, Porsche 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. This weekend’s race marks the fifth career Rolex 24 for van der Zande. Prior to his third-place finish with Spirit of Daytona Racing last year, he scored LMPC-class finishes of fifth, sixth and fourth with the Starworks Motorsport team. Hunter-Reay returns 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 Chip Ganassi Racing entry. He is the most successful active American driver in open-wheel competition, having won the 2012 IndyCar Series championship, the 2014 Indianapolis 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 Andretti Autosport, racing car No. 28 to represent the 28 million people living with cancer worldwide. This weekend marks Hunter-Reay’s 12th career Rolex 24. His 2013 runner-up finish with Angelelli and Taylor stands as his career best. He also had podium finishes of third overall in 2010 as co-driver of the No. 95 NPN Racing BMW Riley with Lucas Luhr, Richard Westbrook and Scott Tucker, third in the GTLM class in 2014 with Goossens and Dominik Farnbacher in the No. 91 SRT Viper, and third overall in 2016 with Goosens, Ryan Dalziel and John Falb in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Prototype. 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 Pontiac 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. -more- Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R Team Report – 56th Rolex 24 At Daytona Page Three The No. 10 Prototype has been a fixture at the front of the pack at each of the last five Rolex 24s. Prior to last year’s victory, the No. 10 Prototype crossed the finish line second, second, third and second, respectively, in their previous four Rolex 24 outings from 2013 through 2016. The third-place finish in 2015 was disqualified after a maximum drive time violation was discovered while vying for the lead late in the race.