2005 Australia Pre-Race: From Jordan to Midland

[@richardcondon8738]

Broke my heart when Jordan F1 left. 🇮🇪💔

[@robertcollcott6579]

A great classic team Jordan Grand Prix was.

[@azapro911]

From championship aspirations to selling up in just four years.

[@mattyg267]

6 or so years... this was 05/06... the last time Jordan had a car good enough to win was 99.

[@merboberbo]

@@mattyg267 He sold it late 2004. And Jordan´s car in 2000 was certainly good enough to win in both Silverstone and Monaco, but both times the car failed. (Trulli in Monaco, Frentzen in Silverstone). It actually was more competitive than the 1999 car with its overall pace, but unreliability failed that car completely. The 1999 car was overall okay, good enough usually for best of the rest. But he was able to take advantage of a lot of mistakes and car failures from the top-4 that season. (e.g. He would´ve been 4th in France had Coulthard not had an electrical fault, Schumacher a gearbox issue and Hakkinen spinning out, in Italy Schumacher was injured, and Hakkinen spun out from 15 seconds lead). Frentzen drove an immaculate 1999 and took advantage every single time the top-4 slipped up unless he himself had a problem like in Nurburgring. But the 2000 car could by pace beat the rest in Silverstone and was really close in Monaco and Spain as well.

[@jacobmassey3897]

@@mattyg267 make that the only year they had a consistent car for a full season.

[@gasgano8255]

"particularly good job" sells team a few months later

[@SuperMafia864]

To Spyker. And a year later they sell the team again. And it became Force India. It's a bit of miracle they are still in F1.

[@jwdoesleagueracing]

10 years later it goes into administration and is sold to Lawrence Stroll to be renamed Racing Point Force India with the team more likely be just Racing Point in 2019.

[@lnid984]

@@jwdoesleagueracing and the team is going to be Aston martin in 2021

[@Yoshiman2024]

I mean, Colin Kolles hasn't the best track record to say the least...

[@blankpage555]

I wonder where Shneider is now and his mate in Russia?

[@Strider_JM]

Prophetic words by EJ regarding independent teams

[@290695christian]

2006