How It Ended
Final years and legacy.
Eddie Jordan sold the team at the end of 2005. Its entry survives as Aston Martin, by way of Midland, Spyker, Force India and Racing Point.
History
Origins, eras and the people who shaped them.
Eddie Jordan graduated his Formula 3000 team to Formula One in 1991 with the 191, widely held to be one of the best-looking cars ever built. That first season he needed a replacement driver for Spa and hired an unknown German sportscar driver called Michael Schumacher, who qualified seventh and was signed by Benetton before the next race.
The team's first win came at Spa in 1998, a chaotic wet race in which Damon Hill led home a Jordan one-two. Its best season was 1999: two wins, and third in the constructors' championship with Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who was in the title fight into the closing rounds.
Jordan ran on sponsorship, noise and personality rather than manufacturer money, and could not survive the budget escalation of the early 2000s. Its final win, Giancarlo Fisichella at a rain-shortened Brazilian Grand Prix in 2003, was awarded several days after the race following a scoring review.
Lineage
Formula One entries change names, owners and manufacturers; the entry itself persists.
- 1991–2005Jordan Grand Prix
- 2006–2007Midland, then Spyker
- 2008–2018Force India
- 2019–2020Racing Point
- 2021–Aston Martin
Drivers Who Defined the Team
Every name links to a full profile.
Timeline
The moments that changed the team's direction.