The History of Eddie Jordan, Eddie Jordan Racing and Jordan Grand Prix.   1948 Eddie Jordan is born on the 30th March in Dublin. 1970 Eddie began his career as a banker, making the switch to motor racing after experiencing the thrill of karting during the summer spent in Jersey, competing in his first kart race at Bouley Bay. 1971 Eddie Jordan buys his first 100cc kart and wins the Irish Championship. 1974 Eddie moves up to FF1600 and, in a Crossle 30F chassis, wins several events in his first year of single-seater competition. 1977 Wins three Formula Atlantic races in an ex-Alan Jones March chassis. 1978 Takes the Irish Formula Atlantic Championship title in a Chevron B29. Jordan moves to Silverstone teaming up with Stefan Johannson at Team Ireland to race the Chevron chassis in the British Formula 3 Championship. 1979 Eddie makes his Formula 2 debut at Donington Park with Team Ireland, also tests the McLaren Formula One car. He sets up Eddie Jordan Racing in the same year. 1980 Retires from racing to concentrate on running Eddie Jordan Racing. 1981 David Sears drives the EJR Ralt-Toyota in the 1981 British Formula 3 series, in his first race qualifies on pole and finished second. 1982 Jordan runs cars in both British and European F3 (winning a race in Europe). Gives a young, unknown Brazilian driver his first taste of F3 - Ayrton Senna. 1983 EJ runs Martin Brundle and Allen Berg in British F3 and Tommy Byrne in Europe. Brundle takes 6 wins but only manages to finish 2nd overall due to the record number of wins by Senna. 1984 Berg repeats Brundle's performance and Stefan Johansson wins one heat at the Macau GP. Expands into the new Formula 3000 Championship but has little success. 1986 Changes from the Ralt chassis (used since their inaugural year) to a Volkswagen powered Reynard which sees the team take no less than 5 wins for Maurizio Sala and a second place in the Championship. The team also runs two March-Ford chassis in F3000. 1987 Johnny Herbert is paired with Paul Stott in the British F3 Championship with Joe Ris racing in French F3 and Tomas Kaiser racing in a few F3000 events. Wins the British F3 Championship with Herbert winning 5 rounds. 1988 Runs a total of 5 cars (2 in Class A F3, one in Class B and 2 in F3000). The Class B F3 entry, driven by Rowan Dewhurst comes second overall with, once again, 5 wins. Tragically Johnny Herbert's first season of international racing is cut short by a horrific accident at Brands Hatch (after winning the first round) so EJ looks to Martin Donnelly (replacing Tomas Danielsson) for results. Remarkably he finishes third overall even though he drives in only 5 of 11 races in the F3000 calendar. 1989 Donnelly is joined in F3000 by Jean Alesi and after a dominant season for Jordan, Alesi wins the crown with Donnelly finishing second. Eddie also runs successful cars in both British F3000 and F3. 1990 Eddie cuts back his operations in readiness for a move up to F1 and because of this only cars are run, all three in F3000. Eddie Irvine is the most successful of the three (partnered by Heinz Harald Frentzen) and comes third overall. Gary Anderson joins Jordan Grand Prix. 1991 The Jordan 191 takes the other F1 teams by surprise and shocks many with a well deserved 5th place in the Formula One Constructors' Championship. Andrea De Cesaris wins 9 points, Bertron Gachot adding another 3. Michael Schumacher drives for one race before being pinched by Benetton. Damon Hill and Vincenzo Sospiri drive Mugen powered Reynards to little success due to a poor chassis design, making Eddie Jordan one of the only people to run F3000 and F1 at the same time. 1992 Jordan Grand Prix move to a purpose built site, getting major sponsorship deals and a works engine deal with Yamaha. Results are bad with the team scoring only one point (at Adelaide by Stefano Modena) over the whole season. 1993 Signs a deal with Brian Hart for his new v10 engine, Rubens Barrichello joins the team. The combination of chassis, engine and driver is good. Barrichello nearly takes a podium place in the European GP at Donington, but a fuel pressure problem stops him with only a few laps to go. The team finishes up with 3 points, Barrichello get 2 with Eddie Irvine taking 1. 1994 Barrichello takes 4th at the Brazilian GP and then 3rd at the Pacific GP (the team's first podium place). Barrichello takes both his and the teams first pole position at Spa in Belgium. By the end of the season the team had scored 28 points (over twice their previous best) Barrichello getting 19, Irvine 6 and de Cesaris taking 3 while Irvine was banned. The team secures fifth place in the Championship. 1995 The start of a 3-year deal with Peugeot and Total and the retention of the Barrichello and Irvine was more positive than some results. There was 2nd and 3rd at the Canadian GP however. Barrichello ends up with 11 points and Irvine with 10. Sixth place in the Constructors Championship for the team. 1996 Benson and Hedges pump major investment into the team. Martin Brundle renews his racing ties with Jordan as Irvine goes to Ferrari. Another average season for the team with no podium places. Barrichello gets 14 points, Brundle adds 8. Fifth in the Constructors Championship. 1997 Ralf Schumacher and Giancarlo Fisichella join with only 8 F1 races between them. They show inexperience and enthusiasm in abundance which makes for exciting racing. 3 podium finishes but twice manage to collide with each other. Despite the opening of their own wind tunnel Jordan Grand Prix is still chasing that elusive first win. Fisichella impresses more with 20 points, Schumacher jr wins 13 points. Best ever number of points Ц 33, another fifth in the Constructors Championship. 1998 Damon Hill signs again for Jordan replacing Fisichella, Mugen Honda replaces Peugot as the works engine. The season starts very slowly with the team way off the pace. Mid season Eddie replaces Gary Anderson as Technical Director/Chief Designer with Mike Gascoyne. Big improvements from the British GP on means that Jordan finally get their 1st Grand Prix Win at the Belgian GP. An excellent end to the season sees the team finish 4th in the Constructors Championship with a best ever 34 points. Damon ends with 20 points, Ralf with 14. 1999 Eddie signs Heinz-Harald Frentzen to partner Hill and for the first time Jordan will have two race winners in the team. The season starts with a 2nd place for Frentzen in Australia and that sets the tone for the season. Heinz-Harald wins twice, at Magny-Cours and Monza, has one second, three third places and five fourths. He also got the team's second ever pole position at the European GP. The team end the season in a best ever third place in the constructors championship with 61 points. Heinz-Harald contributing 54 for third in the driver's championship, Damon adds a disappointing 7 points. 2000 Coming into the 2000 season there was great anticipation in the Jordan camp after the stunning 1999 year and the exciting young Italian Jarno Trulli joining Heinz-Harald at the wheel. The season started well with Frentzen leading for a short while in Australia before both cars broke down and that set the tone for the whole year. The car was fast, but bad relaibility and the only luck being all bad meant a year which was a huge disappointment over recent years. There were a few moments of cheer - a third and fourth place at Brazil and a third at Indianapolis. Heinz-Harald qualified on the front row at Silverstone and Jarno beat that with the same at Spa and Monaco. These aside there was nothing of note to remember from the Grand Prix circuits. Away from the racetrack the news was both good and bad - an invaluable deal was signed for the long-term supply of the Honda works engine but Technical Director Mike Gascoyne moved on. The team end the season sixth in the constructors championship with 17 points. Heinz-Harald contributing 11 , Jarno with a further 6 points.