Wayne Taylor Racing Qualifying Report
VisitFlorida.com Sports Car 250 at Road America

Date: Aug. 9, 2013
Event: VisitFlorida.com Sports Car 250 (Round 9 of 12)
Series: Daytona Prototype division of the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series
Location: Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis. (4-mile, 14-turn road course)
Pole Winner: Dane Cameron of Team Sahlen (2:00.028 at 121.312 mph)
Wayne Taylor Racing: 2nd by Jordan Taylor (2:00.575 at 120.861 mph)

The No. 10 Velocity Worldwide Corvette Dallara DP of Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) will start Saturday’s GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series VisitFlorida.com Sports Car 250 from the front row for the fifth race in a row after qualifying Friday morning at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis.

Jordan Taylor, the 22-year-old first-year co-driver with veteran Italian Max Angelelli, clocked a fast lap of 2 minutes, 0.575 seconds at 120.861 mph around the 4-mile, 14-turn Road America layout, second-best among the 27 car-and-driver combinations that will take the green flag for Saturday’s two-hour, 45-minute race.

“We’re here for the win, not the pole,” said Taylor, who qualified the Velocity Worldwide Corvette DP on the pole at three of the last four races. “I will start second, so I will have a good view at the start. We were pretty happy with the result because we were not sure what we had with our downforce strategy. The car is good and should be a strong car for the race. Dane (Cameron, polesitter) was very fast and it will be tough to run with the BMWs.”

Taylor, who co-drove to victories this season with Angelelli at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham in April and at Detroit, earned his first three career Daytona Prototype-class poles May 31 on the Streets of Belle Isle temporary circuit in downtown Detroit, June 14 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, and July 25 at on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Formula 1 road circuit. He and Angelelli also started on the pole for the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International by virtue of their top position in the point standings after qualifying was rained out, per the GRAND-AM rulebook.

Dane Cameron scored his first career Daytona Prototype-class pole today by more than half a second over Taylor in the No. 42 Team Sahlen BMW Riley he shares with Wayne Nonnamaker. Its newly approved BMW engine, featuring a six-speed gearbox, won in its debut at Indianapolis two weekends ago with the new championship-leading No. 8 Starworks BMW Riley of Ryan Dalziel and Alex Popow.

The top-five qualifiers for Saturday’s VisitFlorida.com Sports Car 250 are:

1. Team Sahlen (No. 42 BMW Riley) with Dane Cameron and Will Nonnamaker (2:00.028 at 121.312 mph).

2. Wayne Taylor Racing (No. 10 Corvette DP) with Jordan Taylor and Max Angelelli (2:00.575 at 120.861 mph).

3. Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (No. 01 BMW Riley) with Memo Rojas and Scott Pruett (2:00.710 at 120.726 mph).

4. 8 Star Motorsports (No. 4 Corvette DP) with Sebastien Bourdais and Emilio DiGuida (2:00.914 at 120.522 mph).

5. Action Express Racing (No. 5 Corvette DP) with Christian Fittipaldi and Joao Barbosa (2:01.096 at 120.341 mph).

Race time is 5 p.m. EDT Saturday with live television provided by SPEED. Live radio on the Motor Racing Network (MRN) and Sirius NASCAR Radio Channel 90 begins at 4:45 p.m. Live timing and scoring during all on-track sessions can be found at www.grand-am.com, and on mobile devices at m.grand-am.com and the GRAND-AM smartphone app.

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