Obitatario by Eddie Jordan: alongside Formula 1
There was also a rock ‘n’ roll aspect in his character. He played the battery in a band and had many collaborators in the music sector including John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten of sex guns and Public Image Ltd and Shane Lynch by Boyzone.
He founded a team of Formula 1 from nothing, built it to win races and also in an intoxicating year challenged for the championship. But it could not survive in the rarefied air at the top of this sport and the team sinked even faster than they raise themselves.
Obviously, when he was on his last legs and sells him, he made a fortune. It was always a cunning businessman with an eye for an agreement.
Perhaps this is what attracted the eye of Bernie Ecclestone, the commercial leader of the F1 during Jordan’s career. Ecclestone, a former second -hand car trader, recognized a similar spirit and was a kind of guardian angel sometimes while Jordan navigated in the waters moved to be an owner of a private team.
Jordan met the car runs for the first time in Guernsey, where he spent the summer of 1970 when a banking strike in Dublin meant that he could not work in his work as an employee. On his return to Ireland, he bought a kart and won the Irish championship to his first attempt in 1971.
He moved to car races in 1974, first in Ford Formula and then Formula 3, only to undergo a bad accident in Mallory Park in 1976 and seriously break a leg.
In the hospital, his hair fell. Seeing this, his mother Eileen – for all the accounts, a formidable woman – procured a wig and asked him to wear her.
He never appeared without one. Although there was a strange moment in the first days when the future pilot of the Grand Prix Gerhard Berger, a renowned practical Joker, would have been unfolded behind Jordan
Jordan resumed his career, but in 1979 he was fighting to find money to pursue him and he turned to the property of the team.
