Angelelli was co-founder of Wayne Taylor Racing, where he drove until his retirement in 2017.[2] In 2020 he left WTR and began working at sports prototype projects for Italian manufacturer Dallara.[3]
Angelelli is nicknamed the Axe, coined by Leigh Diffey because he has a knack of closing up and "chopping" off seconds behind the leader quickly in a race to set himself up to make a clean pass for the win.
For the past several years, Angelelli has driven for the Wayne Taylor Sun Trust Racing Team in the Daytona Prototype class of the Grand Am Racing Series, a class that requires two drivers per car. He has teamed up with Ricky Taylor, the son of team owner Wayne Taylor.
For 2013 Angelelli was again with Wayne Taylor Racing/Velocity Worldwide but Taylor's son Ricky had left to pursue another driving opportunity. This left a driver vacancy on the team which was quickly filled by Taylor's younger son Jordan. Together Jordan and Angelelli made a potent combination and won the final Grand-Am Driver's Title, narrowly beating Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas who had won the championship 4 of the previous 5 years.
In 2017, Angelelli announced that he would compete in his last career 24 Hours of Daytona for Wayne Taylor Racing alongside the Taylor brothers and Jeff Gordon. The team went on to win the race.
Motorsports career results
24 Hours of Le Mans results
American Le Mans Series results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results
(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)
^"Wayne Taylor Racing". waynetaylorracing.com. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^Angelelli departs Wayne Taylor Racing - John Dagys, Sportscar365, 5 October 2020
^Angelelli joins Dallara in new senior-level role - John Dagys, Sportscar365, 17 November 2020
^Ciccarone, Paolo (27 April 2018). "Ricordando Senna. Quel giorno a Imola, con la morte in pista" [Remembering Senna. That day in Imola, with death on the track]. AutoMoto Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 25 September 2020.
^ a b"Max Angelelli Results". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 1999 American Le Mans Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2000 American Le Mans Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2001 American Le Mans Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2002 American Le Mans Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2004 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR DIgital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2005 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2006 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2007 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2010 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2011 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2012 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2013 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2014 Tudor United SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2015 Tudor United SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2016 Weathertech SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2017 Weathertech SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^"Max Angelelli – 2006 IROC Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
External links
Max Angelelli Home Page
Max Angelelli driver statistics at Racing-Reference