Eddie Jordan: “Starting an F1 team was the stupidest thing I ever did – you cannot imagine the stress”
F1 Beyond The Grid
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4.7 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The history of F1 is filled with iconic team owners; extraordinary characters who went above and beyond to build cars and go racing. But it’s fair to say that when they made Eddie Jordan, they broke the mould. The self-proclaimed ‘Irish chancer’ built his team up from nothing, staved off numerous attempts to close it down, ran some of the sport’s finest drivers (including giving a certain Michael Schumacher his F1 debut) and even won several Grands Prix before selling up and starting a new career in the media.
On this week’s episode of Beyond The Grid, presented by Bose, EJ speaks to Tom about all these things and more – and it’s one hell of a story…
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| 0:53.3 | Hi everybody, I'm Eddie Jordan and you're listening to Beyond the Grid. |
| 1:03.2 | Hi everyone and welcome to another edition of Beyond the Grid with me Tom Clarkson. |
| 1:08.5 | This week's guest is a giant killer. |
| 1:11.2 | He's a man with a big personality who, as a team owner, regularly inflicted pain on much bigger |
| 1:17.1 | and better funded rivals and he continues to pull no punches today as a broadcaster on British TV. |
| 1:23.4 | Eddie Jordan is his name and he's been there and he's done it and he's done it the hard way. |
| 1:28.7 | He founded his INF1 team from nothing. |
| 1:31.0 | He started 250 Grand Prix winning four of them before selling up in 2004. |
| 1:37.2 | Fittingly, I caught up with him in the Force India Motorhome. |
| 1:40.6 | Many of the guys who worked for him 25 years ago when his name was above the door are still there. |
| 1:46.4 | And it took EJ a mighty long time to get to the meeting room on the first floor. |
| 1:51.1 | So busy was he cajoling and bantering with his former employees. |
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