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JORDAN TAYLOR, RYAN HUNTER-REAY Konica Minolta 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, 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 , , 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, , 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 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 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 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 (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). 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 at .  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 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.  Van der Zande is a 31-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 Starworks 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 , 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 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 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 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.  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 , and Scott Tucker, third in the GTLM class in 2014 with Goossens and in the No. 91 SRT Viper, and third overall in 2016 with Goosens, and John Falb in the No. 90 Spirit of .  Hunter-Reay’s history with the No. 10 team began with Angelelli and Wayne Taylor at the 2006 Rolex Series season finale at Miller 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. -more-

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 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.  In the last five Rolex 24s, the No. 10 Prototype has led 963 of 3,359 laps – 27.2 percent. The last three Rolex 24s have netted race-high totals of 265 laps in 2015, 152 in 2016, and 263 last year, preceded by 227 laps led in 2014 that was second-highest for the race.  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, . 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.  Cadillac V-Performance Racing secured Ricky and Jordan Taylor to drive Cadillac ATS-V.R Coupe racecars in the five SprintX rounds of the 2017 World Challenge – the first appearance for both Taylor brothers in the series. Jordan Taylor co-drove to the championship in the series- within-a-series alongside Michael Cooper with a victory and a pair of podium finishes. Ricky Taylor and co-drover Johnny O’Connell finished fifth in the championship.

2017 Results:

Date Site Drivers Start Finish Laps Laps Led Status Points/Pos. Ricky Taylor 1/28- Daytona Jeff Gordon 263 4 1 659/659 Running 35/1st 29 (24 hours) Max Angelelli (race-high) Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor Sebring 3/18 6 1 348/348 123 Running 70/1st (12 hours) Jordan Taylor Long Beach Ricky Taylor 38 4/8 1 1 63/63 Running 105/1st (1hr40m) Jordan Taylor (race-high) Austin Ricky Taylor 73 5/6 1 1 73/73 Running 141/1st (2hr40m) Jordan Taylor (race-high) Detroit Ricky Taylor 6/2 10 1 65/65 16 Running 177/1st (1hr40m) Jordan Taylor Watkins Glen Ricky Taylor 7/2 4 6 197/200 0 Running 202/1st (6 hours) Jordan Taylor Bowmanville Ricky Taylor 73 7/9 1 7 120/122 Running 226/1st (2hr40m) Jordan Taylor (race-high) Road America Ricky Taylor 51 8/6 1 2 71/71 Running 258/1st (2hr40m) Jordan Taylor (race-high) Laguna Seca Ricky Taylor 58 9/24 1 3 114/114 Running 288/1st (2hr40m) Jordan Taylor (race-high) Ricky Taylor Road Atlanta 9/24 Jordan Taylor 7 9 97/402 13 Mechanical 310/1st (10 hours) Ryan Hunter-Reay Poles: 5 Wins: 5 Podiums: 7 Top-5: 7 Top-10: 10

Laps led: 708 Laps completed: 1,807 of 2,117 (85.3%) Avg. start: 3.50 Avg. finish: 3.20

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, Skip Faul

Truck Driver: Paul Sheehan (Olivia, Minn.) Deadman: Hali Money

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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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