The 32-year-old returns to race alongside brother Ricky at his father’s Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti team in IMSA after a stint with Corvette Racing battling in GTLM and then GTD Pro.
Taylor, who will co-drive the #40 Acura ARX-06 with Louis Deleetraz for the 2024 season in the team's expanded second entry, received his first taste of the hybrid GTP in a test at Sebring International Raceway and told Autosport the experience “was eye-opening”.
“A week before our Sebring test, we were an Indy for three days at the simulator and checking everything,” explained Taylor, who won the title in GTP's forerunner, the non-hybrid DPi category, with his brother in 2017.
“And then getting down to Sebring, the weather wasn't great, so we didn't get a tonne of running, but on day one I think I got two runs in the car, and it was a lot going on.
“I think the steering wheel manual is about 30 pages, and once I started driving the car on the whole first day, I didn't even look at the steering wheel because I was just trying to pay attention to how to drive the car and just drive it on its own without even focusing on the systems and the diff changes, TC changes, all that stuff.
“It was just overwhelming.”
Taylor was taken aback by how advanced the GTP compared to his previous experience racing the previous top category prototype, DPi, from 2017 to 2019 – the last time he drove for his father’s organisation.
“The power is super impressive,” the 32-year-old said.
Source: Autosport