BRASELTON, Ga.—Brothers Ricky and Jordan Taylor and Max Angelelli in the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Dallara-Corvette took the overall victory in the inaugural Tudor United Sportscar Championship season finale, the ten-hour Petit Le Mans.
The Taylor brothers and Angelelli completed 400 laps of the 2.54 Road Atlanta racetrack, at an average speed of about 100 mph.—not a record-setting pace, but not bad considering the race was interrupted by a record 13 caution periods.
The WTR team battled the eventual series champions Action Express Racing for the entire ten hours, swapping the lead a dozen times. WTR’s margin of victory was a mere 11 seconds; a dropped tool on a pit stop, the slightest driver error could have reversed the result, but the team performed flawlessly.
Wayne Taylor was part of the winning team at the first Petit Le Mans in 1998, so it is fitting that his team, and his sons, should win the inaugural Tudor championship running of Petit. The win was the hundredth for WTR, and the second of the season.
