Born in Orlando, Taylor began his career in professional sports car racing in 2008, competing in the 24 Hours of Daytona and finishing 15th.

His first full season came in 2010, driving a Mazda RX-8 for Racers Edge Motorsports, claiming two GT class podiums.

In 2011 he drove a Chevrolet Camaro for Autohaus Motorsports with Bill Lester, where he got one win and three second place finishes, ending as the GT class runner-up.

In late 2011 at a private test at Sebring, he impressed Corvette Racing enough that they recruited him to fulfill the third driver role for the team in the 2012 season competing at Sebring, Petit Le Mans and also the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where he finished in 5th place in the LM GTE PRO #73 Corvette C6.R.

He also won the Pirelli World Challenge SprintX GT Championship, driving a Cadillac ATS-V.R with codriver Michael Cooper.

The duo won at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, took four podiums, and finished in the top 10 in nine out of ten races, taking the title by 3 points.

He scored a single win at Petit Le Mans and three additional podiums, including a second-place finish at the 12 Hours of Sebring, and was third in the overall standings.

In 2023, Taylor made his NASCAR debut in the Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas, driving the No.

10 car in the Xfinity Series race at Portland International Raceway and ran well, but due to an issue, finished 27th.

He has an online alter ego known as Rodney Sandstorm, a parody of 1990s racers and Jeff Gordon, whose antics have drawn positive attention toward both Taylor and IMSA.

media attention when he, as Rodney Sandstorm, crashed a live NASCAR on Fox broadcast, causing announcer Darrell Waltrip to call for security (not knowing what was going on).