Jordan Taylor, Max Angelelli win Grand-Am finale, season title

LAKEVILLE, Conn. – Jordan Taylor and Max Angelelli won the final Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype season championship, racing to their third straight victory Saturday.

Driving the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP, Taylor took the lead for good with 69 laps remaining in the 173-lap event at Lime Rock Park and was never seriously challenged en route to a 5-second victory over Gustavo Yacaman in the No. 6 Michael Shank Racing Ford/Riley.

The race closed the 14th and final Grand-Am season. The series is merging with the American Le Mans Series next year to form the United SportsCar Championship.

Taylor won the championship for the first time, while Angelelli also won the Daytona Prototype title driving with team owner Wayne Taylor, Jordan's father.

"It all came down to the team," Jordan Taylor said. "Every time we won a race came down to the line, they got us out of the pits with great track position. All we had to do was keep everyone behind us."

Yacaman co-drove to the runner-up spot with IndyCar veteran Justin Wilson.

Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, who had won the three previous Daytona Prototype driver championships, finished third in the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing BMW/Riley. Chip Ganassi Racing won the Daytona Prototype team championship ahead of Wayne Taylor Racing, but Pruett and Rojas fell short, as neither scored points at Detroit in June due to an opening-lap incident with Yacaman.

Eric Curran and Lawson Aschenbach took the GT class victory in the No. 31 Marsh Racing Corvette, while Alessandro Balzan won the GT championship in the No. 63 Ferrari. The GX class race victory went to Tom Long and Sylvain Tremblay in the No. 70 Mazda, with Jim Norman earning class championship honors in the No. 38 Porsche.

The race closed out the 14th and final Grand-Am season. The series is merging with the American Le Mans Series next year to form the United SportsCar Championship.