Nashville IPS: Another win for Taylor

The Panther Racing driver started from pole and led all 77 laps of the race, the sixth in the 12-race Infiniti Pro Series schedule. He held Wood at bay through the final laps to win by 0.3361s.

"It was tough to keep him back," Taylor said. ""I felt I was fair. I don't know how Tom felt about it. I was just trying to keep on the inside and make him go around the outside."

Taylor won the first two races of the season in the series, a feeder for the IRL IndyCar Series, and also triumphed in the recent Kansas race. With rumours swirling about the future of Panther IndyCar driver Sam Hornish Jr, Taylor's performance could be enough to move him up to the team's top-level squad.

"If dominating this series means I have a better chance of getting to Indy cars, I'm grateful for it," Taylor said. "I'm just trying to do the best I can every single time I get in the car. If it's not good enough, it's not good enough. We'll have to look at that when it comes."

Ross Fonferko was third in the Sam Schmidt Motorsports No. 6 car. Jeff Simmons finished fourth, Thiago Medeiros fifth and Cory Witherill sixth.