About Taylor
D.O.B: 30th October 2003
NATIONALITY: Australian
LIVES: Vääksy Finland / Newcastle Australia
OCCUPATION: Rally Driver
RALLY DEBUT: Rally of the Bay 2020
WRC DEBUT: Rally Sweden 2024
WRC WINS: 3 (Rally Finland 24, Rally Sweden 25, Rally de Portugal 25)
WRC PODIUMS: 5
HOBBIES: Mountain biking, Snow boarding, Beach
Taylor has been acknowledged as a future star of Australian Rallying in 2019 when he received the Bursons Future Star Award, along with receiving exemption from Motorsport Australia to compete in special stage rallies on his Learners Permit.
At the age of 6 Taylor had his first driving experience in a go kart, from that first drive he has been hooked on driving. At the age of 7 Taylor got his own kart and spent many hours at the Newcastle Kart track learning his craft.
After a little over 12 months of practicing Taylor entered his first kart race, over the following six years Taylor competed in over 80 race meetings all over Australia winning multiple Titles and Championships at the highest level of the sport of karting.
While still competing in karts Taylor started to enter motorkhana's and khanacross from the age of 12, at the age of 13 Taylor won the NSW Junior State Khanacross Series, he backed this up again the following year by going back to back as well as finishing 3rd outright in the NSW State Khanacross Series at just fourteen years of age.
At 14 Taylor started to compete in Autocross and Rallysprints, where he showed great speed, at sixteen he became the youngest person to win a round of the NSW State Rallysprint Series. On debut in his rally career he finished 12th outright from a field of 86 cars after running on 3 cylinders for almost half of the rally.
In 2022 Taylor competed in the Production Cup class in the Australian Rally Championship going on to take the title and becoming the youngest person to do so in the history of the ARC. Along with competing in the 2022 ARC Taylor was also selected by Motorsport Australia as a wildcard into the FIA RallyStar Asia Pacific final which Taylor went on to win.
2023 saw Taylor compete in 6 European rallies as part of the RallyStar program, this was the training season for the RallyStar program where all 6 crews would take part in training camps along with media training and testing, the 6 rallies were chosen to represent similar conditions and surfaces to the rallies that will be used in the Junior World Rally Championship.
During the 2023 season Taylor went on to be the fastest RallyStar driver in 3 of the 6 rallies, the speed and consistency was enough to secure a second season in the RallyStar program for Taylor, during 2024 Taylor will compete in the Junior World Rally Championship.
The 2024 Junior World rally Championship season was another step up in level competing against the best young drives around the world. Taylor went on to become the first Australian to take a Junior World Rally Championship victory on the fast Finnish roads, this result along with another podium in Croatia on Tarmac saw him go on to finish 4th at the end of the season, enough to secure a second season in JWRC with the Rallystar program in 2025.
2025 has seen the Taylors level go up another step, the speed and commitment from testing and training during the off season has seen Taylor take two victories the first on the snow and ice of Sweden and the second victory on the technical gravel roads of Portugal, while the two second places were in heat of Greece and the last event in Finland where he was in the lead and on target to defend his win from 2024, until a puncture with 3 stages to go dropped him to third over 30seconds off the lead going into the last day, when he went on maximum attack with only two stages on the last day Taylor pushed and go back into 2nd and finished just 8 seconds from the victory.
With one round to go Taylor currently sits on top of the Junior World Rally Championship table, but with double points the title is very much still up for grabs, but the goal is simple, become Australia's first World Rally Champion.