Jordan Grand Prix
Jordan Grand Prix was an Irish- British motorsport team, who took part by investments in Formula 3 and Formula 3000 from 1991 to 2005 in 250 Grand Prix of Formula 1 World Championship. Founder and long-time team manager was the Irishman Eddie Jordan. For Jordan drove in 15 years in Formula 1, many well-known Grand Prix drivers, including former world champion Damon Hill, as well as the Grand Prix winner Jean Alesi, Rubens Barrichello, Thierry Boutsen, Giancarlo Fisichella, Heinz -Harald Frentzen, Eddie Irvine, Ralf Schumacher and Jarno Trulli. The German public was the team mainly because of the Grand Prix debuts of the later record world champion Michael Schumacher in 1991 in Belgium in memory. After several owners and name changes the team is out since 2008 under the name Force India.
- 3.1 Overview: chassis, engines, tires, driver, results
- 3.2 Results in Formula 1
- 3.3 Grand Prix wins
History
F3000
Eddie Jordan was active as a racing driver in Formula 3 in the 1970s. In 1979, he also was a Formula 2 race at the start; at the Donington 50,000 at Donington Park, he was driving a March 792 at the beginning of the following year he founded his own racing team, which first carried the designation Eddie Jordan Racing for the team McMahon Racing. The team first engaged regularly in Formula 3, before it rose in 1988 in Formula 2. In the first year of the commitment Jordans driver Johnny Herbert won a Formula 3000 race. 1989 also drove at Jean Alesi for Jordan. The Frenchman, who debuted in the same year with Tyrrell in Formula 1, dominated the series and won with 39 points the championship. 1990 Eddie Irvine was third and 1991 for Jordan Damon Hill seventh in the drivers' standings. After Jordan gave up its involvement in Formula 3000 in order to concentrate entirely on the formula 1.
Formula 1
1991: Achievements in debut year
For the 1991 season the Jordan team rose thanks to the sponsorships of soft drinks manufacturer 7Up in the formula 1. The emergency vehicle, the Jordan 191 was the first racing car, which had been constructed by the team itself. The development work was largely done by Gary Anderson. Jordan used when driving a Cosworth - eight-cylinder. Unlike the other Cosworth customer teams, these were, however, not a comparatively low-performance DFR engine, but an engine of HB- generation, which had previously been used in exclusively at Benetton.
Regular driver of the new team were Andrea de Cesaris, who brought the team sponsor funds from Marlboro Italia, and Bertrand Gachot. As Gachot was arrested in late summer of 1991 in London, replaced him at Jordan Norbert Haug mediation by the German racing driver Michael Schumacher, who made his Formula 1 debut at the Belgian Grand Prix. For the next race Schumacher moved to Benetton; Jordan forgave Gachots vacant cockpit for the rest of the season to Roberto Moreno and Alessandro Zanardi.
The first season was a success for Jordan Grand Prix. The team was the most successful newcomers in the last ten years. De Cesaris finished five races in the points, Gachot three. In addition Gachot set the fastest lap of the race at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Michael Schumacher's commitment to Jordan caused a stir: Schumacher qualified in the unknown for him route for the seventh place. In the race however he could not even finish a lap, as he suffered a clutch problem.
Jordan finished the season with 13 championship points from fifth in the constructors' championship.
1992: Performance depth with Yamaha engines
In his second season, the Jordan team scored a few successes. Jordan changed early in the season, the technical package. Instead of the Cosworth engine, the team used now a twelve-cylinder engine from Yamaha, which had previously been used in unsuccessful in Brabham BT60Y. The change was primarily financial reasons: the team that had run into financial difficulties due to the expenses of the debut season, the little coveted Yamaha engine was free. Gary Anderson adapted to the existing chassis to the new motor; the car has now received the name Jordan 192 drivers were Stefano Modena and Maurício Gugelmin.
Modena, who was previously driven in at Tyrrell, had difficulties with the qualification repeated. Four times he was not able to get a start authorization. It turned out eight times and finished four races. In the last race of the season Modena scored the only point for Jordan throughout the season. Gugelmin drove a no World Championship points.
1993 and 1994: The Hard - years
At the end of the season 1992, Jordan split from Yamaha. Jordan had been found in the South African oil company Sasol a sponsor who was willing to fund an exclusive engine for the team Irish- British. The engine was designed by Hart Racing Engines, a private company that had provided in the 1980s turbo engines for smaller Formula 1 team. It was designed by Brian Hart; the engine was a 3.5 -liter ten-cylinder engine.
In the first hard year, the team experienced a lot of unrest. Although one of the cars was run at each race of Rubens Barrichello, the second car, however, was successively driven by five pilots who were mostly committed for financial reasons. Ivan Capelli was replaced after two races by Thierry Boutsen, who played ten races in the Jordan 193. On Boutsen Marco Apicella and Emanuele Naspetti followed ( a race ), and the end of the season back allowed Jordan to his former Formula 3000 driver Eddie Irvine Formula 1 debut.
In the 1993 season the team scored three World Championship points: two by Barrichello in the penultimate and one by Irvine in the last race.
First notable success was the Jordan team in 1994 recorded, as Rubens Barrichello was able to win the Grand Prix of the Pacific the first podium and at Spa -Francorchamps, his first pole position in a Jordan with 19 points and was sixth in the drivers' standings.
1995-1997: podiums with Peugeot engines
After two years Jordan was on the hard - engines. The team took over from 1995, the ten-cylinder engines from Peugeot, who had previously made its debut in the year at McLaren, and were traded there after just one season against engines of Ilmor whose development Mercedes -Benz had financed. Eddie Jordan expected of Peugeot better infrastructure and a higher level of development than had been the case with the much smaller company hard.
1997 also celebrated the younger brother of Michael Schumacher, Ralf, his Grand Prix debut with Jordan. Together with the Italian Giancarlo Fisichella he recorded the most successful season for the team at Silverstone.
1998-2002: Honda and Benson & Hedges
In 1998 she placed former world champion Damon Hill at the Chaos race in Spa -Francorchamps, the first victory for Jordan, who even became a double success by the second place of Ralf Schumacher.
The following season in 1999 Jordan became even become one of the top three teams. Heinz -Harald Frentzen decided two races for themselves, finished numerous Grand Prix at the front scoring points and had long stretches of the season good chance of winning the world title. At the end of the year, the team eventually finished in third place in the Constructors' Championship. This was the biggest success of the team's history.
2001 Jordan wrote again hit the headlines when Frentzen has been terminated due to unsatisfactory performance during the season. The media - especially in Germany - reacted with incomprehension at the decision and advised Jordan to seek the reasons for the poor performance in the car instead of the drivers. Years later, Eddie Jordan apologized to Frentzen for his actions and said publicly that his decision had then been a mistake.
2003-2005: decline with Ford customer engines
In 2003 Giancarlo Fisichella won again a race for Jordan, as he at the time of the accidental racing crash was in the lead at the rain race in Brazil. First was honored due to lack of clarity about the exact time of the crash with Kimi Raikkonen by mistake the wrong winner. After a successful protest of Jordan, the team got the victory but finally awarded. This was also an anniversary race for the Jordan team, for the Brazilian Grand Prix was the 200th race of the team since its debut in Formula 1 in 1991.
2004 Nick Heidfeld drove for the team now underfunded and another German was able to make his debut in the yellow Renner celebrate: Timo Glock denied as test and reserve driver four races for the actual regular driver Giorgio Pantano.
In his final season, 2005, the team started already without Eddie Jordan as team boss and the scandal could race in Indianapolis in which launched only six cars, recorded by the Portuguese Tiago Monteiro again a podium finish. Previously, the team was sold to the Midland Group of kanado - Russian billionaire Alexander Shnaider in January of the same year.
The Jordan Grand Prix team has participated in 250 Grand Prix from 1991 until the withdrawal end of the season 2005.
Change of ownership
Eddie Jordan sold his team in 2005 to the Russian- Canadian Midland Group. This brought the team in 2006 under the name Midland F1 Racing in Formula 1 at the start. A year later, the team at the Dutch car manufacturer Spyker and finally to the Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya was sold, who runs it since 2008 under the name Force India team.