Throughout the day of attention to the media of F1 2025 China GPPaddock knows sad news of legend death Eddie JordanAt 76 (1948-2025), after a difficult fight against bladder and prostate cancer.
“Eddie left us and made it to his family with him, now at the age of 76, after fighting with an aggressive prostate cancer for twelve months”Join the family in a statement.
The Irish, in spite of his beginning of a pilot, who will come to compete with Ford Formula (1974), Formula 3 . History of F1 As happened in Belgium 1991: When Jordan He decided to give the flyer one of his cars to a German young to dedicate to F1 and wonder his first date.
This happened on August 25, 1991. And that young man was Michael Schumacher. However, then Flavio Briatore and the German manager, with an imaginative movement in the offices, took Benneton to Benneton Brilliant.
Quickly, family support messages and memory towards Eddie Jordan have increased in social networks through the F1 set.
“We are so depressed in the sudden loss of Eddie Jordan. By his unpleasant energy he always knows how to smile, being authentic and brilliant all the time”The current leader of F1, Stefano Domenicalali, said by a statement.
“Eddie became the opponent of a F1 period and deeply thrown away. At the moment of illness, my thoughts and the whole family of Formula 1 were with their family and their loved ones,” Italian added on behalf of F1.
She wants to give part of her team to Senna
In addition to the ability to celebrate any F1 title, one of the greatest thorns nailed after leaving F1 is unable to convince Ayrton Senna To pilot him for him.
Eddie announced a few years ago he offered Ayrton Senna the possibility of delivering 50% of his Jordan team to F1 To be a pilot and the co -owner time. He offered it before Ayrton chose to leave McLaren to go to Williams, a team where in 1994 he would end the death of ICOLA after a deadly accident.
“This is true. I offered 50% of the team to Pilot Jordan, but it was necessary for this to be owned. I offered it before I signed for Williams because I knew I had failed McLaren. I thought that, with Senna on the team, the set value was folded away, and thus, the half I lost, would recover it. This will be a great blow: I want to have a pilot like Senna in the car, she will continue to have a team and sponsorship income is increasing in disbelief.. But that didn’t happen, nor did it happen when Jordan noticed Senna’s incredible talent when Brazil beat the Ford Formula.
Eddie, in fact, said that in 1994, with a difficult handling of Williams and his bad performance, Eddie still tried to try to convince him: “We are still arguing. The conversations are advanced. I don’t know if we can come up with a understanding, but he wants a team and I offered it to him.”He explained.
Hill, Frentzen, Fisichella and many more
However, Eddie managed to manage the management of good pilots. Already converted to Jean Alesi in the champion on her Formula 3000 team in 1989 (in Eddie Jordan Racing). And in F1, Aside from Michael Schumacher, he also made a debut with Rubens Barrichellowhere he will eventually accompany him Eddie Irvine. Then Giancarlo Fischella (1997) and then produce Ralf Schumacher Debut on F1One of the most popular signing will come, the champion Damon Hillwhich would have won him in 1998 and 1999, the last two campaigns of his F1 career. Hill achieved in Jordan his last success in Queen Class in SPA 1998.
Damon retired at the end of 1999 and replaced by a young man Jarno Trulli In 2000 and there they also passed Frentzen and Jean Alesi, That he joined Irish again, but at this time on F1 where they were his last F1 career. Among the other names, they also voted for Jordan Nick Heidfeld (2004) and Takuma SatoBeing the afternoon of another debutant in Jordan’s story on F1 (2002).
The source of what is now the Aston Martin team
The Jordan team played 250 big awards in F1 and won the best position in the ‘Great Circus’ in 1999, with a third place in the World Cup among builders. The Irish -led team conquered 4 wins, 2 poles, 2 fast laps and 19 podiums in 15 campaigns in ‘Great Circus’. Jordan won Belgium 1998, his first success, with the Damon Hill on the wheel, and it was also made at Heinz-hard Fretzen in France and Italy in 1999. Jordan’s last victory signed him Giancarlo Fisichella in Brazil 2003.
That structure became 2006 in Midland, later in Spyker (2007), and from 2008 to 2018 was the Force India. In 2019 and 2020, the team was renamed the career name until Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso’s current team, bought it.
“Eddie Jordan is a true pilot, a great leader and one of the greatest personalities of our sport. He was a friend who had known more than thirty years and I would miss him. My thoughts, and everyone is at Aston Martin, are with his family and friends, ”says Lawrence StrolAston Martin’s F1’s Aston Martin team.
Source: La Verdad
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