About Taylor
D.O.B: 30th October 2003
NATIONALITY: Australian
LIVES: Vääksy Finland
OCCUPATION: Rally Driver
RALLY DEBUT: Rally of the Bay 2020
WRC DEBUT: Rally Sweden 2024
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.