BE ON THE EDGE! The Final Years of Jordan Grand Prix (2000-2004)

[@Matty-B-on-an-MTB]

I was a member of the Jordan fan club, and got to meet Eddie, Jean Alesi, Takuma Sato and Justin Wilson, god bless his soul, at a Silverstone test day. We had pit lane access at lunch time and a Jordan factory tour during the day too, as well as lunch with the team in the hospitality suites above the old pit garages. Was bloody brilliant! Jordan really were the F1 team who made access to F1's backstage accessible to the"normal" F1 fan. Thanks Aidan for another great video!

[@palm92]

Takuma is a wonderful guy personally.

[@simontravers2715]

Like EJ said of him, such a nice person but JUST bring the car home in 1 piece! 🇯🇵

[@Matty-B-on-an-MTB]

@@simontravers2715 and then they arrived at Austria!!!

[@TheBrainSpecialist]

I got to meet Sato at the Toronto Indycar race a couple years back. Wonderful guy. Very grateful that he could make some time for me as a journalism student. Same with Christian Lundgaard.

[@AidanMillward]

Fan clubs. Do they even exist these days or is it just a social media page now?

[@Antonypancake]

As a side note I learnt from EJ's and DC's podcast, when Eddie signed the engine deal with Ford, Gerhard Berger pulled an amazing prank on him. Eddie and Berger were going to be flying home together with Ron Dennis, and so Berger, who was working for BMW and having just seen the Jordan-Ford deal, made some fake documents showing that BMW were going to be supplying engines to Minardi. Berger then put these documents in his briefcase and during the flight, told Ron to encourage Eddie to look in the briefcase when Berger went away. Berger then left to go to the cockpit, and sure enough, Ron tells Eddie to snoop, and so Eddie finds the documents and is mortified that his biggest rivals now have a deal with arguably the best engine in F1 at the time. When Berger comes back, Eddie starts asking about any potential BMW deals etc., while trying to not give away the fact that he had been snooping. Berger plays along and tells Eddie that actually, we are planing to supply engines to a smaller team. At this point, Eddie is practically begging Berger to consider giving the BMW engines to Jordan, even though, as Berger points out, he had just been om TV hyping up their new partnership with Ford. Berger then plays along even further and tells Eddie to ready a presentation or something of the sort in a very short period of time and gives him a bunch of people to call, including Bernie Ecclestone. Eddie then works tirelessly on this matter for quite some time, before realizing that Berger had played him and resulting in a very angry phone call to Berger. Berger tells the story way better, go check out the Formula for Success podcast if you haven't

[@palm92]

Berger - Troll Driver.

[@johnpatricklim4509]

Imagine if that came true....Jordan-BMW...it all started with a prank....

[@grunchlk]

Imagine Minardi-BMW 🥰

[@theF1oracle]

What is it with berger, briefcases & flying ? Didn't he once throw a briefcase owned by senna out of a helicopter 😂

[@johnpatricklim4509]

@@grunchlk all started with a prank....how one prank changes the fortunes of these teams....

[@freedomisslavery6840]

The 1999 Jordan is one of the most beautiful looking F1 cars of all time.

[@secondcitydoood]

Is that when they had the 7up logo? I wasn’t alive.

[@nigelmurphy6761]

@@secondcitydoood no their original 1991 car, the 191.

[@palm92]

@@Bale4Bond ‘97 cars are great looking. And for me, the last truly beautiful F1 cars.

[@n8pls543]

@@palm92 They looked all weird when they shrunk the wheelbase, though. I liked the early 90s cars more.

[@palm92]

@@n8pls543 Same here, but I was talking more about relatively to what came after ('98-now.) '89-'92 cars are gorgeous.

[@AeroGuy07]

I've got a Jordan diecast with the Buzzin Hornets livery. I got it at a USGP at Indy.

[@MasterBlaster69]

I have the very same, sits next to my Sim Rig to this day.

[@reptongeek]

I have a Jordan die-cast too. It's the Damon Hill 98 car

[@JojtekBarszczyk]

Funny thing, 2003 points system was brought to help some backmarker teams, like Jordan, however, with the old system, that win, then the only points finish, would've leapped them above Toyota, Jag, Sauber and BAR to 5th

[@JohnSmithShields]

Jordan always felt like everyone's second team. We all had our favourites, but always kept an eye on the bright yellow party boys.

[@Time4utube]

Red bull were liked for that too before 2021.

[@timmurphy4844]

@@Time4utube you could say redbull took notes looking at jordan engine problems and thay why they made there own team.

[@eamonahern7495]

They were the main reason Irish tv started showing full season races live in 1995 and why I used to watch religiously in the late 90s. Being Irish, I was a big fan. When Heinz Harald won in Magny Cours Michael Douglas presented one of the trophies and there was Eddie singing along to Amhrán na bhFiann as the winning constructor's anthem.

[@rcb0683]

Jordan having God save the Queen played when they got their 1-2 at Spa was crushing. I'm Irish and there was precious little else to celebrate in motor-racing so to have that result and the wrong anthem was played very nearly ruined the achievement.

[@AidanMillward]

Eddie didn’t mind it considering the team was based in Britain and most of the team was British. But playing God Save the Queen for an Irish team that soon after the Omagh bombing was a bit 😬

[@rcb0683]

Yeah, I remember Eddie saying he didn't mind and looking back it's certainly not the worst thing to ever happen. But at the time it was tough to swallow. The 90s were a bit of a purple patch for Irish sport, in football, athletics boxing at least. So, it would have been another great moment for Irish sport. I think what stuck in my craw the most was that the organisers didn't even have a copy of the Irish anthem on hand and so reckoned God Save the Queen was the next best option. Its like a perennial underdog English team getting an unlikely 1-2 and the event organisers play La Marseillaise because they did have a copy of God save the Queen/King. Like I said, certainly not the worst thing to ever happen, but a memorable and very unfortunate mishap.

[@MyWifeHatesThisCar]

@@rcb0683 I was half helping my dad put a new roof on our extension when the race was on, and I kept coming out to him shouting "Jordan are winning the F1!". Both my parents were from Mayo and we grew up in Birmingham. When Hill won I was jumping around the place saying he had won. And both my mom and dad came in to watch the podium, and then GSTQ. Neither were happy about it, think my Dad said "typical" as whenever anyone Irish did something well they were British. A bit like what happens with Andy Murray. Still though, after that like you say it was an imperial phase of Irish sport. Don't know about your home, but when Keane walked from Saipan it was like a civil war in the house. I joke that the Brexit vote had nothing on the divisions Keane's departure caused in families!

[@n8pls543]

@@MyWifeHatesThisCar It's like how David Coulthard is a Scotsman but Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart are British.

[@Ricky_Baldy]

​@n8pls543 Coulthard was a Scotsman when he made a mistake and he was British when he did well. Similar to Eddie Irvine, British when doing well, Irish when not.

[@thatguyfromcetialphaV]

I loved the 199 Jordan, and still have a model of it somewhere. I remember going to Donington in 2000 where EJ was having his 10th anniversary celebration. A lot of the sponsors were there and even then, there were a few long faces. Reading between the lines, B&H weren't impressed with how bad the 2000 car was compared to 1999.

[@EddieVanAidan]

I went to that as well! First time seeing F1 cars at a track. Sat opposite the starting grid, absolutely deafening 😂

[@thatguyfromcetialphaV]

Yeah it was a good day. I met Harry Heinz and Trulli who were demo-ing all of the previous cars. ​@@EddieVanAidan

[@michaelmaclean6965]

They never painted Frentzen and Hedges on the nose as far as I know so the universe cursed them with uncompetitiveness as penance for missing such an open goal

[@simontravers2715]

Frentzen & Hedges sounds 10X better than Bitten & Hisses (which sounds like a pansy’s attempt at ASMR)

[@michaelmaclean6965]

@@simontravers2715 bitten heroes wasn't great either

[@A_BBQ_er]

Oh thats bloody brilliant! never heard that before.

[@o00nemesis00o]

Frentzen & Hedges His Bets On Whether To Retire After Silverstone Or Keep On To The Season's End wouldn't fit on the car.

[@michaelmaclean6965]

@@o00nemesis00o don't let the Damon stans hear you talk like that, who knows what Eldrich powers they wield. Summon copium is a fairly common ritual

[@almeidaariel9]

Really loved the Jordan and BAR take on tobbacco branding Jordan's Be on edge And BAR's Look Alike are so good Of course Bitten Heroes and the others puns where more elaborate but be on edge is so simple and so good really deserve appreciation

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

Honorary shout out to West as well for “East” branding when sponsoring Zakspeed and the iconic driver names on the sidepods for McLaren

[@Mishima505]

The reason the fighting fund was set up was due to a clause in the Concorde Agreement stating that if the field dropped below 20 cars, then the top four teams would have to run a third car to make up the numbers.

[@TimmyTickle]

Does this clause still exist?

[@GeneralCodeBlue]

​@@TimmyTicklebefore Haas joined the grid there was talk of allowing three car teams.

[@jamessteel9016]

Always the ultimate underdog, Jordan were my favourite team in the 90s and early 00s.

[@ashmillermotorsport]

I met Eddie at a Mark Sutton photo exhibition in Abu dhabi in 2015 when I was a race coach at Yas Marina. We spoke about racing for a bit but he lit up when i mentioned my other career as an irish dancer. He's personal friends with Michael Flatley and on occasion Flatley would bring some of his main dancers to Monaco to party on Eddies yacht with him. He was playing the spoons in a sleeveless tank top when the assembled were all suited and booted. Eccentric, outspoken but a genuine character, and Jordan were my go-to team when i followed Hill and Frenzten in the late 90s. Mega memories.

[@GGosden]

This has no doubt been said, and when reading it, put your best anorak voice on…. At 11:15 during the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix, it was actually Webber who went off before Alonso… Alonso came round onto the start finish straight, collected one of Webbers stricken wheels with his front right, and went careering off to the left! Then there was a red flag, 2 heavy shunts. Either way, another cracking video, keep up the good work Aidan! Love the content 😁😁

[@umeshsurenthiran9205]

Cheers for the vid Buddy. I believe it was 2005 that was Jordan’s last year.

[@tombardsley3081]

It was Jordan in name only. They were no longer owned by EJ. Midland owned them at that point and they bought the team too late for a name or brand change, like how Sauber were still BMW Sauber in 2010 but there was nothing BMW about the car since they had Ferrari engines again

[@umeshsurenthiran9205]

@@tombardsley3081 but EJ was still the team principal at the time even though he wasn’t the team owner

[@tombardsley3081]

@@umeshsurenthiran9205 no he wasn't. Colin Kolles and Johnny Herbert were brought in by the new owner.

[@umeshsurenthiran9205]

@@tombardsley3081 yes I know about Kolles but Herbie was brought in 2006 under the Midland name

[@tombardsley3081]

@@umeshsurenthiran9205 it was Jordan in name only. The 2005 team had nothing to do with EJ except his name. He wasn't involved in the team's operations. The reason it stayed as that name was because there's a deadline for when a team name can be changed/rebranded and it was beyond that deadline

[@Anonymous_0894]

Your way of narrating and presenting is really good. I could honestly listen to you talk for hours.

[@cirian75]

How the hell are you not a 500k channel? people need to know what they are missing with this channel.

[@777wolfhunter]

I believe Eddie said on his podcast. He still get a cheque for DHL for the logo update for DHL

[@meneldur19]

Even if the logo update isn't due to Jordan, i firmly believe Eddie could talk them in to thinking it was.😂

[@F1jones]

I was one of the few at the 1991 USGP pre-qualifying session, and at the race itself, so see the team's debut.

[@peterjohnson8935]

I was really hoping Frentzen would win the 99 championship.

[@palm92]

Considering they were using an engine built in a shed in Shizuoka (that itself was based on the 1989 Honda V10) it was an incredible performance.

[@jacintoobrigado1230]

F1 rejects, i miss that website. The guys behind it put in a lot of great work.

[@palm92]

This channel is the closest thing to replicating that old site. It's why I like it so much.

[@grunchlk]

The one word reviews 🥹

[@thatguyfromcetialphaV]

F1 Rejects was great. I read somewhere that the site owners had a big falling out and that's why it went under.

[@palm92]

@@thatguyfromcetialphaV Yeah a lot of the info is lost to time - there are mirrors of the old site.

[@grunchlk]

@@thatguyfromcetialphaV I read that one of them was working for the lawfirm that represents F1 in Australia and therefore they had to stop doing it. Luckily I downloaded all the podcast episodes before the site went down.

[@namesurname8812]

You missed one additional issue which was the appointment of Mike Gascoyne as technical director. Once he arrived Jordan started producing less competitive cars.

[@waltertaylor44]

i remember getting an Eddie Jordan steering wheel from GAME in 2000. It worked on both the PS1 & N64 and came with pedals, it was amazing.

[@Luke22SV]

Yess the video i was hoping for thank you 🙌🏼

[@e2thesmooth]

99.4k subscribers? Well done! Better start filming that Roberto Moreno documentary ;-)

[@AidanMillward]

Nope.

[@ZoidPickle]

Always love the stories dude. Subbed. Knockin on a 100k mate. Great job. At 53, i got to meet eddie and even bernie at times. I did van delivery with engine parts. Titanium valves, all sorts. DHL lol. There was a magic to it back then. A fun team. Its all a bit different now. As a side note, bernie ecclestone was a car salesman. Thanks buddy. 👍

[@MsZeeZed]

EJ always portrayed himself as a rock n roll scamp, but he made some hard headed F1 boss decisions whenever it really mattered. Driver talent vs engines, its engines; assuring headline result for sponsors vs spirit of racing, headlines please.

[@thomaswatkiss9484]

I miss the bright yellow Jordans and their charm ( ps what guitars and ampdo you own and love the vids

[@CyanRooper]

I miss yellow F1 cars in general. Yellow is probably the second best colour for a race car, red is obviously the very best one.

[@Meodread]

Big Jordan fan so loved the attention they get. I have always wondered (and I imagine there's no actual concrete answer) WHY Frentzen was dismissed in 2001. Because the story it was to make room for Sato really does not compute because Trulli was leaving the team anyways, there was going to be a seat open (Both Trulli and Briatore have confirmed that conversations regarding Trulli move to Benetton (later Renault) were in progress from like San Marino onwards) so that's where you put Sato. Frentzen was essentially replaced by Fisichella which I'm fine with but that never the story that gets told. It's a minor point because the Honda deal didn't work out long term (BAR was willing to give them far more power and regardless of results Honda was going to go that way imo) and as much as I respect Frentzen as a driver he doesn't fix any of the issues that kick into high gear as 2003 goes on because simply put MONEY! I suppose there's a very small chance that Frentzen old Merc connections do something but unlikely.

[@JoshuaC923]

Advanced congrats on the 100k man!

[@aoife1122]

Abt is not some abbreviation, it's the family name of the company founder. (An "Abt" being the head of an abbey, the German equivalent to "Abbot")

[@GeeShocker]

Was about to write exactly the same. Luckily i browsed the comments first. 👍

[@AidanMillward]

Top tip for them: don’t write it in all capitals. 🤣

[@mplsmike4023]

Right with you. EJ wasn’t perfect. But we need more like him to make F1 interesting!

[@Eagleracer38x]

I like Jordan, the team and the man. It was fun seeing the team fighting for the championship against the manufactories for a few years.

[@TroystonB]

2000 should have been a great year for Jordan but it was the beginning of the end. Honda played favourites with BAR.

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

They could have won the Monaco GP that year had Trulli car not gone pop as he was ahead of DC Edit - and Aidan said it lmao

[@briankearn6991]

Like many organizations, Honda got fed up with dealing with Eddie Jordan.

[@TroystonB]

@@briankearn6991 Never thought of it that way, interesting.

[@tjitse3916]

Great vid. Makes me wonder all of a sudden: when was the last privateers-only podium? My mind jumps to Nurburgring ‘99, but that can’t be the last, right?

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

Even with that podium you could argue Stewart was the ford factory racing team hidden in plain sight but I think that was the last all privateer podium What would you define as a privateer would a team like BAR fit (pre Honda taking a stake in them) or even a team like McLaren technically from 2010-14 on a higher scale of things (Mercedes has sold their stock it was just an engine agreement by then) or RB at various points (pre 2010 and 2016-18)

[@AidanMillward]

I think you might actually be right. But like already mentioned it depends on what you class Stewart as. Or Prost considering they had nationalised French companies coming out their deriere

[@xamiax2282]

Took me a second there to realise that you spelled Out ABT. Abt is the Name of the company founder which wasn't Always a part of Audi. Similar to AMG and Mercedes. Abt is the German Word for dept. A head of a monastery. Hope that helps. The more you know. I Like your content. Keep Up the good work

[@opiejaye]

Ah, I miss Jordan, even if those last years were painful and it was quite sad seeing the team slide into inevitable doom. We'll always have the amazing '99 season, however. My all time fave F1 car is still the EJ-11 and still wear my 2000 B&H Jordan Frentzen cap from time to time (even if it nearly got me some aggro from some pissed bloke in a pub once coz 'German!').

[@Hab1tual1nfamy31]

The EJ11 with the shark nose is a real beauty 👍

[@mambotkurt7296]

Another interesting video. I think I can add some other things: In some interviews in hindsight, Eddie Jordan also mentioned other things that might have contributed to the shortcomings of the team. One was the point that the team apparently expanded its personnel after 1999, but according to Eddie, this didn't add to the business culture at Jordan. Also, Eddie himself judged that he himself in parts withdrew from actually managing the racing itself delegating things to others, which also didn't help. By the way, EJs autobiography "An Independent Man" also depicts their win at Brazil in 2003 in more detail. According to that account, it was just another gamble on the weather when they had the luck to plan Fisichella switch to wet tires according to the prediction when it would start raining. Earlier, the book also mentions that similar things happened in France in 1999, when they had a man stationed outside Magny-Cours giving the weather some 15-20 kms away from the track. Sure, such tellings might be anecdotical, but Eddie at least has a point in the fact that luck - good or bad - has always been playing anything but the least part in F1. Oh, and I like the way you pronounce "Deutsche Post". While you get the former part right, the latter is pronounced in German with a short O, just as in "lost", "cost" or "boss". But in such aspects, German is probably just as arbitrary as English.

[@keithgoh123]

Eddie Jordan looked like he had fun at the end of the day, and that's just perfect. Back when cars had tobacco colour schemes were also just brilliant, now only Ferrari still looks cool.

[@chancefugitt4329]

Jordan is still my favorite team!

[@terminateshere]

I remember crawling out of bed to watch Australia 2000. After the McLarens retired, Jordan looked set for a big result. Until they broke down too - the main beneficiary being (ironically enough) Ralf. Should have clocked then and there that they'd peaked.

[@Ramtamtama]

Have an like, Mr Millward. The Black Country Flyer strikes again! Not to sound like a bot, but you do a fair bit of research and put it out in a nice manageable chunk. And you're not half bad at sim racing, either. Keep it up for as long as you want.

[@AidanMillward]

Just gotta find a league that has a bit more competition.

[@95BlitzsGarage]

Great video as always..

[@dashappi1313]

Ah my team when I originally got into F1. Was in the fan club, and remember 98 and 99 so fondly (HHF in the drivers champions race was a real thrill). The downfall years were painful and sad to watch, I feel like BAR getting the Honda engine deal over Jordan was the beginning of the end, I remember being gutted when BAR got the full factory deal. Still some great memories through the late 90's

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

I'm on the edge of sleeping and hoping to cross that line since it's 3am. I will however, do my best to concentrate on the latest instalment from a highly intelligent lad whose dry humour most certainly confuses Americans, preventing his youtube growth but just doesn't give a fuck. 😂😂😂 ❤❤❤ Love your work, Lad.

[@howiieb]

Eddie, in his book, actively claims that he was responsible for DHL becoming yellow - he says that he made the argument that FedEx were white in the US, and that it'd be a bad clash for DHL, who were about to enter the market, to try to compete on the same colour scheme. I'm not claiming you're wrong necessarily, because you do make a good point about DHL not mentioning it themselves, but just that there are conflicting stories from both sides on this, and that EJ is adamant about his involvement at the very least.

[@SpaceHCowboy]

Yep, that's the same version I heard, and I never read his book yet.

[@A_BBQ_er]

Yep! Loved the video and when Aidan came to that part about Eddies Autobiography I grabbed my copy to check. Thays how he puts it in his book. I think its a bit of both, Deutsche Post needed to be in F1, had to be on a yellow car, (They were in negotiations with Stewart but DP colour was yellow so it would fall down) Eddie done a deal with DP who wanted to advertise DHL, I think DP changed DHL colour to yellow as they wanted it to be seen as part of the DP family, and as @howiieb says, FedEx was white in the US so they needed to be different, and here was Eddie with a yellow car, makes perfect sense to me.

[@briankearn6991]

Seems like an Eddie Jordan claim, he likes bullshit.

[@tjroelsma]

Eddie Jordan, Ken Tyrrell and Frank Williams were part of the charm of F1 and in my opinion it's sad that that has gone from F1. These days it's all and only about money and quite naturally that means only teams with deep pockets, like manufacturer teams, are left. The new budget caps don't do much, as driver salaries are NOT included, meaning that drivers as Verstappen and Hamilton are getting paid more than €40 million per year to race, which also in my opinion is ridiculous.

[@djoetma]

Thanks. Seems like a great video while eating my dinner.

[@rockgoleu]

Missed those crazy blokes, colourful characters, awesome liveries, funny owner and glamour girls.

[@cyberfutur5000]

I just found out this week, that EJ and DC have a podcast together. Two episodes are here on youtube yet, one where EJ and Gerhard Berger curse at each other lovingly, while DC pours gasoline into the fire and one where EJ and Bertrand Gachot curse at each other loss lovingly and DC fuels the fire. EJ screams a lot. Quiet entertaining.

[@laurenmp7486]

@@Bale4Bond In other words, EJ being a proper Irishman.

[@davidporeilly1]

You would really enjoy his book. Highlights: As a loan's officer at a bank EJ would tell customers borrowing money for a car that he knew of a better deal, then would source a car. He had used cars parked all the way up his street. As a young racer his main sponsor was a carpet shop. They gave him their offcuts and he ran a market stall selling them.

[@markusjuenemann]

Thank you so much for clearing up this DHL/Deutsche post/yellow-livery-nonsense!

[@ethanmullett4128]

I think i heard EJ say on his podcast that he knew Frentzen was the better driver but he needed the Honda engines and it was just a lesser of two evils. keep the good driver, or keep my team on the grid.

[@mikehipperson]

"A car salesman who ended up in F1" Hmmm? Who else was a car salesman who ended up in F1, Bernie? Bernie?

[@grunchlk]

Basically every works team? 😜

[@poqqsgaming5929]

Great video

[@Anonymous_0894]

Now F1 teams are heavily focused on branding, franchising and merchandising which is why a lot of these shoestring budget teams died out.

[@grunchlk]

16:14 that's not the 2005 car, could be 1995? Not that there's problems with the c0pyright...

[@AidanMillward]

Must have done a ctrl z at some point and undone the change on that overlay when I thought it was undoing something else. It’s the 1996 San Marino GP

[@grunchlk]

@@AidanMillward not sure how important it is so I thought I'd mention it. Another GREAT video there, thank you!

[@csboatworks1362]

F1 today needs more teams like Jordan. Always nice seeing the little guy compete against the factory teams.

[@buckfaststradler4629]

F1 looks "silly" with only 20 cars.

[@Draconianoverlord55]

So many good drivers that could fill 4 more seats

[@3storiesUp]

Losing Gascoyne was a huge turning point ..

[@thegooner-49]

11:13 other way round right? Alonso smashed into debris from the crash?

[@AidanMillward]

Yeah I’ve had an absolute shitehawk of a day. Between OBS deciding to not work and Vegas crashing every time I clicked on something it’s amazing I got anything done today.

[@thegooner-49]

@@AidanMillward well the video was good either way - a test to see if we are paying attention.

[@olliebrown89]

Are you doing Toleman? I saw he passed away roday

[@danesorensen1775]

Considered doing a video on Giorgio Pantano?

[@stefencooke]

Jordan became midland for one season then Spyker for one then force Indian then technically Racing point and now Aston Martin and also getting honda engine again just like red bull are going back to a ford engine lole when there where Stewart

[@GaryWagers]

Wheeler dealers and car salesmen... I think you've got a good idea here for a video series of biographies. I'd love to know more about Tom Walkinshaw, given how his name turns up in so many different and unexpected places, and Flavio needs a look just on the basis of what I remember from his Wikipedia page. And there are so many other people I've never heard of that I'd love to learn about.

[@15DEAN1995]

I remember in the early 2000s F1 games I always picked Jordan or Jaguar as my team because they're my favourite looking F1 cars of the era

[@kurtisduke2685]

I miss Jordan they were a fantastic and fun team they had a small budget but had great people in the team and they were their to race because they loved racing.

[@areasquirrel]

From an improbable high to a crushing low. It was a sad decline and a sad exit that brought mixed emotions. Eddie was as devious and underhanded as Mr. E at times, and could be irritating as all hell, but nostalgia heals all wounds. This was one of my OG's - one of the teams from when I began with F1, of which only Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and Sau-Kic-Aud remain. The nostalgia personally extends to tenuous childhood links, Eddie hails from Bray, Co. Wicklow. The Best Seaside Town... In The World. Childhood holiday heaven. Jordan's yellow was unforgettable - a great example of identity branding, initially just another ciggie packet, but with the hornets, the snakes and the sharks, it broke away from Benson and Hedges and became Jordan Yellow. And of course, there's the tricolour tinted glasses - this was Ireland's Team. That of course meant my grandad followed them. Any success, from one point to a victory were celebrated in the press in the Emerald Isle. I still remember fondly the roller-coaster of 1999, of Frentzen and Ireland's Greatest Year, of a news feature on pubs being packed to cheer on Irvine and Jordan. When Australia 2000 came around, the front page of the main TV listings mag, the RTE Guide, had on the front cover "F1 2000 Season Preview - Is This Eddie's Year?" Only if you mean his year for getting the wind kicked out of him. When Midland came in, I remember Ted Kravitz made a running gag about them being Irish-Russian, and back when Ted's Notebook was an ITV website column rather than a show - remember that? - he referred to them exclusively in those terms; Jordanin, Jordanski, Jordanov, etc. I thought it amusing, at least. Eddie did a lot for the country and for the sport. Emotionally this team will always be his, no matter how long Lawrence Stroll's name remains on the door. Suil Eile.

[@TheUKNutter]

For your 100K sub celebration, you should bring the MontageRock music back. I still remember you using the song "The Wicked Side Of Me" back when you had 2,000 subscribers!

[@palm92]

The Mugen and Honda relationship has always been very weird - from what I understand the factory actually blocked Mugen from competing further in F1 after 2000, they (Mugen) wanted to continue. Also, apparently there was a plan for Brabham to run Mugen V8s in 1989 but it never happened for the same reasons - Honda corporate blocked that one.

[@briankearn6991]

Mugen is a private company owned by a Honda family member and executive, so funding comes from Honda resources.

[@adamcameron9029]

100k lets go

[@tacticalnuclearpingutv290]

Pointing to the end of the Peugeot works deal as the turning point for the teams fortune is correct imo. Whilst they had success with Mugen they end up getting messed around badly by Honda, and arguably Honda got their comeuppance with how BAR/Honda ended up before pulling out. What might have been had they backed Jordan over Craig Pollock’s flash and unsubstantiated promises.

[@thatguyfromcetialphaV]

I never liked Pollock. He was a master of spin. That whole 'Tradition of excellence' tagline and endless boasting was just sandpaper to the ear drums.

[@fastmclaren71]

That Jag was a really nice-looking car. Nice green.

[@chrisstephens6194]

Met Eddie down 5th avenue in Naples FL. He was leaning on his really expensive porsche.

[@williamdawson7102]

I first heard the "DHL Eddie Jordan branding" story on the Beyond the Grid podcast when Eddie Jordan made those claims. Thanks for clearing up some of Eddie's stretched truth

[@Gatotsu2009]

The writing on the wall for Jordan was during the Honda years when they were not able to play the politica game vs BAR despite the fact Jordan got more points than BAR during the 2001-02 season.

[@RMhoneybadger]

Buzzing Hornets- where did that appear on Jordan? Or am I dreaming 😂

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

It did I believe for the 1999 car They used Be on Edge, buzzing hornets and Bitten Hisses throughout their time in f1

[@RMhoneybadger]

Appreciated! Thank you

[@Dirt-Diggler]

Buzzing hornets was EJs band, sounded pretty good 👍

[@BobbyGeneric145]

You are the only smallish youtuber buying rights to still images!

[@hecksters423]

Jordan's major moves hinged from the start of the team and the end with "the" and "a" 😭

[@charleytodd5792]

Well done

[@kevinprior3549]

I thought Webber crashed first in Brazil, then Alonso?

[@Dirt-Diggler]

Yup 👍

[@AidanMillward]

Proof it’s been an utter shit day.

[@Dirt-Diggler]

@AidanMillward Na it's cool 👍 It's just as a married man I rarely get to be right 🤣🤣 so when the option pops up I have to take it 😁

[@calumclark1719]

Great video, what always surprises me especially with Eddie Jordans reputation for deal making is why when it became clear that Honda were only going to go with BAR that Eddie didn't sniff around the other engine manufacturers that were thinking of venturing into F1 as he new the cosworths were not competitive even working with the likes of Toyota until he could get something sorted, Audi were always sniffing around as were Porsche and if memory serves GM had a pretty good V10 being used at Le Mans that could have been converted to use in F1 especially to rub Ford the wrong way. But they and Minardi, Ligier/Prost, Arrows, Tyrrell are all huge misses now, f1 is to clinical risk averse all show and no go god forbid it rain to much, or even a retirement from pushing the car the inch of its life. Massive change up is needed bring back Eddie!

[@minibus9]

Awesome video, I always liked Jordan it was a shame that they went but enevitable at th same time realistically

[@joribremer5260]

Always wanted a minichamps 2000 jordan (1/18 but never got it..

[@Dreyno]

German mail coaches were yellow long before the 1930s. It’s always been the traditional colour of the mail in many European countries and some have adopted it in the 20th century. Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain all use yellow post boxes amongst others.

[@salmanfarruz]

You gave examples of all Mugen Honda parallels except... Honda RBPT

[@musculusiv4172]

In a way I feel like Günther Steiner was the Eddie Jordan of the recent era

[@UncleJoeLITE]

A good job was indeed done. Thanks. _Hi to the long-suffering Mrs W too! =)_

[@ripperevo2011rrchamp]

Ever done any vids about Hulk? If not, it would be a good time to do one as he's now F1's most experienced driver never to win a race.

[@mike04574]

my dad worked for dhl and he confirms the deutsche post change and it has nothing to do with eddie jordan and his f1 team

[@Alan-cg8gx]

I wonder how much cigarette and alcohol companies revenue dropped after the advertising ban.

[@ConnbineHarvester]

In Ireland, we'd call Eddie Jordan "a chancer", That can be a negative or a positive. an insult or a term of endearment. Our soccer team failed to qualify for France 98 and Euro 2000 and the rugby team went out of the 1999 World Cup early on to Argentina which at the time was a little bit shameful, so Jordan were a really big deal in Irish sports for a wee while. I bought 2 Jordan tshirts. The quality and durability of their merch was unreal. Very cool and well made stuff! I was delighted when the 3 new teams tried to break into F1 in 2010 and sad when they all died out not that long afterwards. I think it's great for F1 that they seem to have finally cracked America and that they have decided to race mostly in countries where Democracy is a joke or a threat to the regime and Red Bull can wipe out 20% of the grid on a whim if they leave the sport. I just can't be arsed watching it anymore (No more listening to Crofty! Yay!) and I stuck in there for as long as i could. Hopefully the WEC will give me my racing fix in 2024!

[@AidanMillward]

If you’re in Ireland you might be able to get BTCC if you point your aerial in the right direction. At least your rugby team is better now. Still can’t get to a semi tho 😂

[@ConnbineHarvester]

@@AidanMillward I can find pretty much anything racing-wise, it's more about how many hours I have to take it all in! I'd watch it all if I could! I'm very quickly working my way through the 2022 Formula E season, I know who won the title but it's all on youtube and I'm watching it since race 1 of season 1 ( I was hooked after Nico Prost and Heidfeld crashed on the last corner of the last lap in race 1 in China while in 1st and 2nd place and Lucas Di Grassi stole the race from distant 3rd and celebrated like he'd really done something! Heidfeld never actually got to win an FE race and is retired now!) I get a lot of the semi final stuff from rugby fans on youtube. i'll just have to console myself with back to back 6 nations titles and there's some games vs South Africa this Summer. :D

[@vince065us.2]

Jordan and Minardi are teams that had followings that will never be seen again. I'm surprised that Sauber hasn't attracted a similar following.

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

Strategic partnerships with Sauber tbh. They were brought into the sport with the the help of Mercedes, then had a long strong association with Ferrari and RB to the point they were almost using the previous year Ferrari adapted to that year rulebook. Then BMW came calling made them a factory team then they were an independent before the linkup with Ferrari (fiat (Alfa Romeo lol)) and now the impending tie up with Audi They know how to do a partnership lol that’s Mercedes Red bull Ferrari BMW Alfa Romeo (fiat) And Audi

[@NinetyTres]

FFS is a fantastic show, highly recommended

[@alaricbragg7843]

DHL sponsored a yellow and red BMW in the 1994 DTM, so there was a precedent for such sponsorship livery in professional motorsport years before!

[@Lukeywoodsey]

Eddie said on his podcast he convinced them to change yellow because their trucks and planes stick out more. He said he still get shares from DHL because of it

[@goodfes]

He had a good run, cannot fault him for that. The first 1991 car was a stunningly looking F1 car. I remember being opposite their pits at Silverstone watching the girls and Arnold (Terminator) doing photos. Wasn't Katie Price called Jordan at the time? Their pit was always such a hive of fun pre race, probably 25 years ago.

[@MagnaLynx21]

Someone signed my Jordan hat in 2002, it's knocking about at my mum's house, I'll have to check! The online downside of this team was the yellow attracted a lot of bees during the summer...

[@yasamito]

"Ralph's brother" that's err, one way to describe him lmao