Remembering Eddie Jordan: Formula One’s inimitable maverick

Eddie Jordan was one of the great characters of motor sport – an adventurer with a zeal for deal-making and a wannabe rock star. His death leaves a hole in the sport that won’t be filled, says Jane Lewis

Eddie Jordan ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco 2024
(Image credit: Emmanuele Ciancaglini/Ciancaphoto Studio/Getty Images)

Friends of Eddie Jordan often joked it was easy to find him in a crowded room: “You simply followed the sound of laughter.” The buccaneering former Formula One (F1) team owner, who has died aged 76, was one of motor sport’s “great characters – and talent spotters”, says The Telegraph.

During his 14 years leading the Jordan Grand Prix team, he gave Michael Schumacher his first F1 drive and brought on world champion Damon Hill. A “flamboyant adventurer”, he gave the giants of motor sport a run for their money before selling out for $60 million in 2006 to launch a second career as a popular TV pundit and podcaster.

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Jane writes profiles for MoneyWeek and is city editor of The Week. A former British Society of Magazine Editors editor of the year, she cut her teeth in journalism editing The Daily Telegraph’s Letters page and writing gossip for the London Evening Standard – while contributing to a kaleidoscopic range of business magazines including Personnel Today, Edge, Microscope, Computing, PC Business World, and Business & Finance.

She has edited corporate publications for accountants BDO, business psychologists YSC Consulting, and the law firm Stephenson Harwood – also enjoying a stint as a researcher for the due diligence department of a global risk advisory firm.

Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

She lives in north London, has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, and is currently learning to play the drums.