Ah .... the team was on the way down by then but I still miss them! Giancarlo’s lucky win in Brazil that season was its last hurrah! They would have been brilliant on Netflix!
F1 needs an Eddie Jordan now more than ever. Bernie sold out and it was time for him to move on but a hand to mouth maverick who got within a couple of podium finishes of taking the constructors championship as a independant owner is needed to balanace things with the the heavyweights. Something authentic added to the sport now owned by a huge hedge fund!
really miss this team, I mean eddie is a bit annoying but his team was fun, bright and surprisingly good back in 1998. F1 teams are all trying to have that NASA/McLaren esq science and calculators and windtunnels feel. Jordan GP, rightly or wrongly, looked like they remembered racing is fun and they were there for a laugh.
Seeing what became of Eddie Jordan once he arrived in F1, I mean in the day-to-day aspect of running his team, I wonder how anyone can think he was still enjoying himself like during his F3 years. You can see that he spent most of his time in F1, managing the commercial and administrative side of his business, spending very little time on the track, delegating the most exciting part of his job to his employees, all at the expense of real racing and his family life. In my humble opinion, many people are blinded by ambition and the quest for the top, that they tend to forget that joy and pleasure are in the simplest things. If you ask all the people out there what were the best years of their respective careers, from the drivers to the team managers to most engineers and mechanics, they'll all tell you that their best time were the lower formula years.
All anyone needs to know about Eddie Jordon is that long after he’s been out of the sport of F1 is that they still talk about him and mostly in a very positive manner
Great interview, when asked why no females in facility, Eddie says I would prefer to have females because they are cheap, reliable and good looking! He would get consumed by the me too movement! Love him, Eddie knows F1 inside out
I remember that great race in Brazil the rain, that was originally awarded to Kimi in the confusion of race ending shunts by Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso, but was later awarded to Fisi. Was this filmed at the beginning of that 2003 season?
f1 has not been the same since Eddie and his yellow /green boys and girls left town, I was lucky enough to sneak/steel/crash in to a few of Eddies parties, dragging members of my family and friends behind, for my sins I never regretted those for a moment
Eddie just looking at the pictures at the beginning with the papers. Watching him go nuts down the pit lane at spa I’ll never forget just brilliant and how f1 is not going but in the wrong direction with it only being for big corporations big money how it needs an Eddie Ken Colin and Paul right now.
HairyArmpitLover Natural Beauty If I remember correctly there was some sort of disagreement but I can’t be certain. Which is strange considering the team was Irish registered with the FIA.
Being Irish myself and proud of what Jordan achieved over the years, I find this docu very telling. Compare it to other docu's such as Williams, Mclaren or Ferrari and it falls down in the professional presentation stakes. Eddie mainly discusses money, how much its costs, not having enough and who to extract it from. Such things are never discussed by the other teams.
Many thanks for this upload. I saw this a good few years ago and it was only 30 mins and have tried to find it since. Never knew I'd only ever seen an edited version!
It makes you wonder if Eddie spent more time and effort on his team rather than his then lavish lifestyle if Jordan could still exist as a team today...
If you want to have a go at Eddie, look at his skills at securing contracts. He lost Schuey after one race weekend because the agreement they had didn't tie him down properly. Later, Eddie pretty much sunk the team by going after Vodafone in court when he thought he had them committed to sponsoring the team, but the judge found that he hadn't and made Jordan pay Vodafone's costs.
