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Former Components 1 staff proprietor and TV analyst Eddie Jordan dies
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Former Components 1 staff proprietor and TV analyst Eddie Jordan dies

Motorsports March 20, 2025
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Longtime Components 1 staff proprietor and businessman Eddie Jordan died Thursday. He was 76.

Jordan owned the Jordan Grand Prix staff that competed from 1991-2005. Over 250 races in that span, Jordan drivers received 4 races and scored 19 podium finishes, and the staff supplied seven-time champion Michael Schumacher along with his first probability in Components 1.

“Together with his inexhaustible vitality he all the time knew how you can make folks smile, remaining real and sensible always.

“Eddie has been a protagonist in an period of F1 and he shall be deeply missed. On this second of sorrow, my ideas and people of the whole Components 1 household are along with his household and family members.”

The staff’s greatest season got here in 1999, when drivers Damon Hill and Heinz-Harald Frentzen scored 61 factors collectively and completed third within the constructors standings. That was the staff’s highest constructors standings end ever.

That season was Hill’s final in F1 after he had joined the staff in 1998 and scored the staff’s first win. His addition got here with controversy, nonetheless, as he teamed with Ralf Schumacher that season. Schumacher left the staff on the finish of the season after he was informed to not cross Hill within the waning laps of Hill’s win.

Issues went sideways within the 2000s for the staff. After switching from Honda to Ford engines in 2003, the staff completed ninth within the standings for 2 seasons with Ford. The American producer — which is returning to Components 1 in 2026 with Crimson Bull — put its engine division up on the market after 2004 and Jordan ran Toyota engines in its last season in 2005. That yr, Jordan bought the staff to the Midland Group, an entity that lasted by way of the 2006 season.

After he bought his F1 staff, Jordan was an analyst for BBC’s protection of the game from 2009-15. In his function as a TV pundit, he was the primary to disclose Lewis Hamilton was making the primary beautiful staff change of his profession when he went from McLaren to Mercedes.

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