Longtime Method 1 group proprietor and businessman Eddie Jordan died Thursday. He was 76.
Jordan owned the Jordan Grand Prix group that competed from 1991 via 2005. Over 250 races in that span, Jordan drivers gained 4 races and scored 19 podium finishes and the group offered seven-time champion Michael Schumacher together with his first probability in Method 1.
The group’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 group’s highest constructors standings end ever.
That season was Hill’s final in F1 after he had joined the group in 1998 and scored the group’s first-ever win. His addition got here with controversy, nonetheless, as he teamed with Ralf Schumacher that season. Schumacher left the group 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 group. After switching from Honda to Ford engines in 2003, the group completed ninth within the standings for 2 seasons with Ford. The American producer — which is returning to Method 1 in 2026 with Crimson Bull — put its engine division up on the market after 2004 and Jordan ran Toyota engines in its remaining season in 2005. That 12 months, Jordan offered the group to the Midland Group, an entity that lasted via the 2006 season.
After he offered his F1 group, Jordan was an analyst for BBC’s protection of the game from 2009 via 2015. In his position as a TV pundit, he was the primary to disclose that Lewis Hamilton was making the primary gorgeous group change of his profession when he went from McLaren to Mercedes.
