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Eddie Jordan demise: Former F1 staff proprietor dies aged 76
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Eddie Jordan demise: Former F1 staff proprietor dies aged 76

By Miles Cooper March 20, 2025
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Eddie Jordan demise: Former F1 staff proprietor dies aged 76

Former staff proprietor has handed away on the age of 76 after a year-long battle with most cancers.

Jordan that he had skilled some “very darkish days” after being recognized with “aggressive” bladder and prostate most cancers final spring, which unfold to his backbone and pelvis.

The previous staff proprietor and pundit, who ran the Jordan Grand Prix staff from 1991 to 2005 and was a pundit on BBC’s protection of System 1, spent the winter in and insisted final month that his chemotherapy was in “good condition.”

However a press release from his household introduced the Irishman had handed away earlier on Thursday. The assertion learn: “It’s with profound unhappiness that we announce the passing of OBE, the ex-System 1 staff proprietor, TV pundit and entrepreneur.

“He handed away peacefully with household by his facet in Cape City within the early hours of 20 March 2025.”

Final month, about which had purchased rugby membership out of administration, Jordan grew to become emotional because the dialog moved on to his spherical of chemotherapy.

“Sorry guys, only a small factor, thanks,” Jordan mentioned. “I’ve simply come out of getting chemotherapy and I am not 100 per cent collectively right here guys.

“I am simply not myself at this second in time. I am a little bit far and wide, so please forgive me. I simply had an enormous deal of it [chemotherapy] yesterday so I’m sorry – I’m not fairly myself.”

Jordan ran the Jordan Grand Prix team in F1 from 1991 to 2005 (Getty Images)

A bigger-than-life character within the F1 paddock, Jordan based his personal racing staff in 1981 and employed Martin Brundle in British F3 in 1983.

He then based his personal F1 staff, Jordan Grand Prix, in 1991 and gave seven-time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher his debut later that yr. After one race, Schumacher moved to rivals Benetton, the place he would go on to win his first two titles.

Jordan’s greatest lead to F1 got here in 1998 with a one-two end with Damon Hill and Ralf Schumacher on the Belgian Grand Prix, whereas a yr later Heinz-Harald Frentzen completed third on the planet championship – Jordan’s greatest particular person driver end.

Jordan was later a popular pundit on BBC's coverage of Formula 1 (Getty Images)

But after shedding an engine take care of Honda in 2002, the staff struggled financially and Midland Group purchased the staff in 2005. Total, Jordan GP entered 250 races in F1, profitable 4 grands prix.

Jordan then grew to become a preferred determine for followers of F1 within the UK as he grew to become a pundit on BBC’s protection of the game alongside presenter Jake Humphrey and former F1 driver David Coulthard.

Most not too long ago, Jordan served as star designer Adrian Newey’s supervisor and negotiated his transfer from Pink Bull to Aston Martin this yr.

Jordan is survived by his spouse Marie, who he married in 1979, and 4 kids.

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