Eddie Jordan

Irish motorsport executive and broadcaster (1948–2025)

  • Fame54.8
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia11.5K
Source-basedFalling
Lived 1948–2025, aged 77
AthletesAthlete
  • Wikipedia
    39 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1948–2025
    Aged 77
  • Known for
    1
    2013
Summary
Updated 2026-08-18

He ran one of Formula One's scrappiest outfits for fifteen years, turning a shoestring grid slot into a four-time race winner and briefly the sport's third-best constructor—then walked away, sold it, and became the loudest voice in the TV booth.

Biography

About

Edmund Patrick Jordan worked at the Bank of Ireland before taking up kart racing at 22, won the Irish championship a year later, and spent the rest of the 1970s climbing through Formula Ford, Formula Three, Atlantic and Formula Two. In 1979 he founded Eddie Jordan Racing, which ran in International Formula 3000 from 1985 to 1991, then launched Jordan Grand Prix as a Formula One constructor in 1991. Across fifteen seasons his team won four Grands Prix and finished third in the 1999 World Constructors' Championship before he sold it to Midland at the end of 2005. He moved to broadcasting, analys…

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Teams

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  • EMKA Racing
    1981–1981
19811985
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Awards

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  • Freedom of the City of London
  • Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • James Joyce Awards
By the numbers

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Fame
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54.8
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Historical23.3
Source confidence70.0
Completeness70.0
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Sources

  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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