Eddie Jordan - Biography & Images
Eddie Jordan is former Formula One team boss and TV pundit.
Jordan was a successful kart racer in his mid-twenties and won the Irish Kart Championship in 1971. He worked his way up from Formula Ford in 1974, to Formula Three the following year and then made the move to Formula Two in 1979.
He also took part in testing for the McLaren Formula 1 team, but a number of accidents meant that he decided to quit racing and turn to management.
In 1980 he founded Eddie Jordan Racing and over the next decade brought some of the sport’s most famous faces through the junior class ranks, handing drives to the likes of Ayrton Senna, Damon Hill, Martin Brundle and Johnny Herbert.
Inspired by the success of his junior drivers, Eddie established Jordan Grand Prix in 1990 and entered Formula 1, handed future seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher his Formula 1 debut.
Eddie sold Jordan Grand Prix to the Midland Group in 2005.
Jordan then became a permanent fixture of Formula 1 broadcasting coverage both at the BBC and Channel 4.
He passed away at the age of 76 in March 2025.
