Michael Schumacher’s former sponsor Eddie Jordan is dead. As the family of the 76-year-old Formula 1 legend, according to the English media reports, said, Jordan died in the early morning with his loved ones in Cape Town after a cancer. The eccentric Irish only made it public in December that he suffered from prostate and bladder cancer and that the disease then spread further.
“It was pretty aggressive,” said Jordan in the “Formula for Success” podcast, and about, “some very dark days”. Jordan is the former team leader and team owner of the racing team of the same name. He was Schumacher’s first boss in the motorsport king class in the early 1990s. The later record world champion Schumacher drove his first and only race for the team in Spa-Francorchamps in 1991. As a driver, he was active in lower formula classes, celebrated some victories and was even allowed to test a Formula 1 car from McLaren. “I used to have the dream of becoming world champion, but then I got to the point at which I knew I couldn’t do it as a driver,” said Jordan once.
:The soul of his team
Formula 1 was also a challenge and therapy for the paraplegic Frank William’s challenge and therapy – his pilots drove seven world championship titles. Until the end, the Brit felt complicit in the death of Ayrton Senna.
So he became the head of his own team. In one of his cars, the later PS icon Senna drove its first Formula 3 kilometers in 1982. After a few successes, Jordan finally ventured into the Formula 1. As a racing team operator, he developed creative methods for money procurement. The bailiffs allegedly gave him tips in good time before they came to the garnishment so that he can disappear. Jordan experienced fat years in the racing series. He secured lucrative sponsorship deals, threw shrill parties. Before the team garage, slightly dressed women strut around. He was almost the inventor of the box. For Jordan, world champion Damon Hill, Rubens Barrichello, Eddie Irvine and several Germans drove. He hired Ralf Schumacher, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Nick Heidfeld and Timo Glock.
Jordan had an eye for talents. In total, the team reaches four Grand Prix victories, two of them through Frentzen 1999. But with the burning of money of the factory racing stables, the father of four children could not keep up. In 2005 it was over, Jordan sold his shares. But even later he could not leave the racing series and became a TV expert at the BBC. There he caused a sensation with mocking comments, rather he withdrew in old age.
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