I was a member of the Jordan fan club, and got to meet Eddie, Jean Alesi, Takuma Sato and Justin Wilson, god bless his soul, at a Silverstone test day. We had pit lane access at lunch time and a Jordan factory tour during the day too, as well as lunch with the team in the hospitality suites above the old pit garages. Was bloody brilliant! Jordan really were the F1 team who made access to F1's backstage accessible to the"normal" F1 fan. Thanks Aidan for another great video!

The 1999 Jordan is one of the most beautiful looking F1 cars of all time.

As a side note I learnt from EJ's and DC's podcast, when Eddie signed the engine deal with Ford, Gerhard Berger pulled an amazing prank on him. Eddie and Berger were going to be flying home together with Ron Dennis, and so Berger, who was working for BMW and having just seen the Jordan-Ford deal, made some fake documents showing that BMW were going to be supplying engines to Minardi. Berger then put these documents in his briefcase and during the flight, told Ron to encourage Eddie to look in the briefcase when Berger went away. Berger then left to go to the cockpit, and sure enough, Ron tells Eddie to snoop, and so Eddie finds the documents and is mortified that his biggest rivals now have a deal with arguably the best engine in F1 at the time. When Berger comes back, Eddie starts asking about any potential BMW deals etc., while trying to not give away the fact that he had been snooping. Berger plays along and tells Eddie that actually, we are planing to supply engines to a smaller team. At this point, Eddie is practically begging Berger to consider giving the BMW engines to Jordan, even though, as Berger points out, he had just been om TV hyping up their new partnership with Ford. Berger then plays along even further and tells Eddie to ready a presentation or something of the sort in a very short period of time and gives him a bunch of people to call, including Bernie Ecclestone. Eddie then works tirelessly on this matter for quite some time, before realizing that Berger had played him and resulting in a very angry phone call to Berger. Berger tells the story way better, go check out the Formula for Success podcast if you haven't

Jordan always felt like everyone's second team. We all had our favourites, but always kept an eye on the bright yellow party boys.

Funny thing, 2003 points system was brought to help some backmarker teams, like Jordan, however, with the old system, that win, then the only points finish, would've leapped them above Toyota, Jag, Sauber and BAR to 5th

I've got a Jordan diecast with the Buzzin Hornets livery. I got it at a USGP at Indy.

They were the main reason Irish tv started showing full season races live in 1995 and why I used to watch religiously in the late 90s. Being Irish, I was a big fan. When Heinz Harald won in Magny Cours Michael Douglas presented one of the trophies and there was Eddie singing along to Amhrán na bhFiann as the winning constructor's anthem.

They never painted Frentzen and Hedges on the nose as far as I know so the universe cursed them with uncompetitiveness as penance for missing such an open goal

Jordan having God save the Queen played when they got their 1-2 at Spa was crushing. I'm Irish and there was precious little else to celebrate in motor-racing so to have that result and the wrong anthem was played very nearly ruined the achievement.

I loved the 199 Jordan, and still have a model of it somewhere. I remember going to Donington in 2000 where EJ was having his 10th anniversary celebration. A lot of the sponsors were there and even then, there were a few long faces. Reading between the lines, B&H weren't impressed with how bad the 2000 car was compared to 1999.

The reason the fighting fund was set up was due to a clause in the Concorde Agreement stating that if the field dropped below 20 cars, then the top four teams would have to run a third car to make up the numbers.

Really loved the Jordan and BAR take on tobbacco branding Jordan's Be on edge And BAR's Look Alike are so good Of course Bitten Heroes and the others puns where more elaborate but be on edge is so simple and so good really deserve appreciation

Always the ultimate underdog, Jordan were my favourite team in the 90s and early 00s.

This has no doubt been said, and when reading it, put your best anorak voice on…. At 11:15 during the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix, it was actually Webber who went off before Alonso… Alonso came round onto the start finish straight, collected one of Webbers stricken wheels with his front right, and went careering off to the left! Then there was a red flag, 2 heavy shunts. Either way, another cracking video, keep up the good work Aidan! Love the content 😁😁

F1 rejects, i miss that website. The guys behind it put in a lot of great work.

I believe Eddie said on his podcast. He still get a cheque for DHL for the logo update for DHL

From an improbable high to a crushing low. It was a sad decline and a sad exit that brought mixed emotions. Eddie was as devious and underhanded as Mr. E at times, and could be irritating as all hell, but nostalgia heals all wounds. This was one of my OG's - one of the teams from when I began with F1, of which only Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and Sau-Kic-Aud remain. The nostalgia personally extends to tenuous childhood links, Eddie hails from Bray, Co. Wicklow. The Best Seaside Town... In The World. Childhood holiday heaven. Jordan's yellow was unforgettable - an great example of identity branding, initially just another ciggie packet, but with the hornets, the snakes and the sharks, it broke away from Benson and Hedges and became Jordan Yellow. And of course, there's the tricolour tinted glasses - this was Ireland's Team. That of course meant my grandad followed them. Any success, from one point to a victory were celebrated in the press in the Emerald Isle. I still remember fondly the roller-coaster of 1999, of Frentzen and Ireland's Greatest Year, of a news feature on pubs being packed to cheer on Irvine and Jordan. When Australia 2000 came around, the front page of the main TV listings mag, the RTE Guide, had on the front cover "F1 2000 Season Preview - Is This Eddie's Year?" Only if you mean his year for getting the wind kicked out of him. When Midland came in, I remember Ted Kravitz made a running gag about them being Irish-Russian, and back when Ted's Notebook was an ITV website column rather than a show - remember that? - he referred to them exclusively in those terms; Jordanin, Jordanski, Jordanov, etc. I thought it amusing, at least. Eddie did a lot for the country and for the sport. Emotionally this team will always be his, no matter how long Lawrence Stroll's name remains on the door. Suil Eile.

I was really hoping Frentzen would win the 99 championship.

I met Eddie at a Mark Sutton photo exhibition in Abu dhabi in 2015 when I was a race coach at Yas Marina. We spoke about racing for a bit but he lit up when i mentioned my other career as an irish dancer. He's personal friends with Michael Flatley and on occasion Flatley would bring some of his main dancers to Monaco to party on Eddies yacht with him. He was playing the spoons in a sleeveless tank top when the assembled were all suited and booted. Eccentric, outspoken but a genuine character, and Jordan were my go-to team when i followed Hill and Frenzten in the late 90s. Mega memories.

Cheers for the vid Buddy. I believe it was 2005 that was Jordan’s last year.

Big Jordan fan so loved the attention they get. I have always wondered (and I imagine there's no actual concrete answer) WHY Frentzen was dismissed in 2001. Because the story it was to make room for Sato really does not compute because Trulli was leaving the team anyways, there was going to be a seat open (Both Trulli and Briatore have confirmed that conversations regarding Trulli move to Benetton (later Renault) were in progress from like San Marino onwards) so that's where you put Sato. Frentzen was essentially replaced by Fisichella which I'm fine with but that never the story that gets told. It's a minor point because the Honda deal didn't work out long term (BAR was willing to give them far more power and regardless of results Honda was going to go that way imo) and as much as I respect Frentzen as a driver he doesn't fix any of the issues that kick into high gear as 2003 goes on because simply put MONEY! I suppose there's a very small chance that Frentzen old Merc connections do something but unlikely.

Right with you. EJ wasn’t perfect. But we need more like him to make F1 interesting!

I was one of the few at the 1991 USGP pre-qualifying session, and at the race itself, so see the team's debut.

Eddie Jordan is a Car salesman that ended up in F1, that became a commentator and was called a wanker on Live TV by Max Verstappen. What a career lol.

EJ always portrayed himself as a rock n roll scamp, but he made some hard headed F1 boss decisions whenever it really mattered. Driver talent vs engines, its engines; assuring headline result for sponsors vs spirit of racing, headlines please.

I came of age during the Schumacher-Hakkinen era and when I saw Jordan's cars for the first time with the Buzzin Hornet logo nosecone, they became my favorite team, to the point that I ordered merch from a now defunct mail-order company in the US. However, what I didn't take into account before wearing it in high school was the Benson & Hedges logo. Needless to say, I avoided serious trouble, but I couldn't wear the jacket or jersey to school after that. Keep in mind this was in Texas in 1998, so it also stuck out like a sore thumb because F1 wasn't visible at the time.

Abt is not some abbreviation, it's the family name of the company founder. (An "Abt" being the head of an abbey, the German equivalent to "Abbot")

Yess the video i was hoping for thank you 🙌🏼

Eddie Jordan looked like he had fun at the end of the day, and that's just perfect. Back when cars had tobacco colour schemes were also just brilliant, now only Ferrari still looks cool.

Always love the stories dude. Subbed. Knockin on a 100k mate. Great job. At 53, i got to meet eddie and even bernie at times. I did van delivery with engine parts. Titanium valves, all sorts. DHL lol. There was a magic to it back then. A fun team. Its all a bit different now. As a side note, bernie ecclestone was a car salesman. Thanks buddy. 👍

Advanced congrats on the 100k man!

For your 100K sub celebration, you should bring the MontageRock music back. I still remember you using the song "The Wicked Side Of Me" back when you had 2,000 subscribers!

You missed one additional issue which was the appointment of Mike Gascoyne as technical director. Once he arrived Jordan started producing less competitive cars.

Your way of narrating and presenting is really good. I could honestly listen to you talk for hours.

2000 should have been a great year for Jordan but it was the beginning of the end. Honda played favourites with BAR.

Great video as always..

I remember crawling out of bed to watch Australia 2000. After the McLarens retired, Jordan looked set for a big result. Until they broke down too - the main beneficiary being (ironically enough) Ralf. Should have clocked then and there that they'd peaked.

How the hell are you not a 500k channel? people need to know what they are missing with this channel.

Eddie, in his book, actively claims that he was responsible for DHL becoming yellow - he says that he made the argument that FedEx were white in the US, and that it'd be a bad clash for DHL, who were about to enter the market, to try to compete on the same colour scheme. I'm not claiming you're wrong necessarily, because you do make a good point about DHL not mentioning it themselves, but just that there are conflicting stories from both sides on this, and that EJ is adamant about his involvement at the very least.

Thanks. Seems like a great video while eating my dinner.

I like Jordan, the team and the man. It was fun seeing the team fighting for the championship against the manufactories for a few years.

F1 today needs more teams like Jordan. Always nice seeing the little guy compete against the factory teams.

Now F1 teams are heavily focused on branding, franchising and merchandising which is why a lot of these shoestring budget teams died out.

Ah, I miss Jordan, even if those last years were painful and it was quite sad seeing the team slide into inevitable doom. We'll always have the amazing '99 season, however. My all time fave F1 car is still the EJ-11 and still wear my 2000 B&H Jordan Frentzen cap from time to time (even if it nearly got me some aggro from some pissed bloke in a pub once coz 'German!').

Jordan is still my favorite team!

Great video

You would really enjoy his book. Highlights: As a loan's officer at a bank EJ would tell customers borrowing money for a car that he knew of a better deal, then would source a car. He had used cars parked all the way up his street. As a young racer his main sponsor was a carpet shop. They gave him their offcuts and he ran a market stall selling them.

Took me a second there to realise that you spelled Out ABT. Abt is the Name of the company founder which wasn't Always a part of Audi. Similar to AMG and Mercedes. Abt is the German Word for dept. A head of a monastery. Hope that helps. The more you know. I Like your content. Keep Up the good work

"A car salesman who ended up in F1" Hmmm? Who else was a car salesman who ended up in F1, Bernie? Bernie?

I think i heard EJ say on his podcast that he knew Frentzen was the better driver but he needed the Honda engines and it was just a lesser of two evils. keep the good driver, or keep my team on the grid.

i remember getting an Eddie Jordan steering wheel from GAME in 2000. It worked on both the PS1 & N64 and came with pedals, it was amazing.

99.4k subscribers? Well done! Better start filming that Roberto Moreno documentary ;-)

Ah my team when I originally got into F1. Was in the fan club, and remember 98 and 99 so fondly (HHF in the drivers champions race was a real thrill). The downfall years were painful and sad to watch, I feel like BAR getting the Honda engine deal over Jordan was the beginning of the end, I remember being gutted when BAR got the full factory deal. Still some great memories through the late 90's

Great vid. Makes me wonder all of a sudden: when was the last privateers-only podium? My mind jumps to Nurburgring ‘99, but that can’t be the last, right?

Thank you so much for clearing up this DHL/Deutsche post/yellow-livery-nonsense!

I miss the bright yellow Jordans and their charm ( ps what guitars and ampdo you own and love the vids

I remember in the early 2000s F1 games I always picked Jordan or Jaguar as my team because they're my favourite looking F1 cars of the era

I just found out this week, that EJ and DC have a podcast together. Two episodes are here on youtube yet, one where EJ and Gerhard Berger curse at each other lovingly, while DC pours gasoline into the fire and one where EJ and Bertrand Gachot curse at each other loss lovingly and DC fuels the fire. EJ screams a lot. Quiet entertaining.

Have an like, Mr Millward. The Black Country Flyer strikes again! Not to sound like a bot, but you do a fair bit of research and put it out in a nice manageable chunk. And you're not half bad at sim racing, either. Keep it up for as long as you want.

I'm on the edge of sleeping and hoping to cross that line since it's 3am. I will however, do my best to concentrate on the latest instalment from a highly intelligent lad whose dry humour most certainly confuses Americans, preventing his youtube growth but just doesn't give a fuck. 😂😂😂 ❤❤❤ Love your work, Lad.

That Jag was a really nice-looking car. Nice green.

The Mugen and Honda relationship has always been very weird - from what I understand the factory actually blocked Mugen from competing further in F1 after 2000, they (Mugen) wanted to continue. Also, apparently there was a plan for Brabham to run Mugen V8s in 1989 but it never happened for the same reasons - Honda corporate blocked that one.

Losing Gascoyne was a huge turning point ..

Pointing to the end of the Peugeot works deal as the turning point for the teams fortune is correct imo. Whilst they had success with Mugen they end up getting messed around badly by Honda, and arguably Honda got their comeuppance with how BAR/Honda ended up before pulling out. What might have been had they backed Jordan over Craig Pollock’s flash and unsubstantiated promises.

100k lets go

A good job was indeed done. Thanks. _Hi to the long-suffering Mrs W too! =)_

Met Eddie down 5th avenue in Naples FL. He was leaning on his really expensive porsche.

Well done

Awesome video, I always liked Jordan it was a shame that they went but enevitable at th same time realistically

Wheeler dealers and car salesmen... I think you've got a good idea here for a video series of biographies. I'd love to know more about Tom Walkinshaw, given how his name turns up in so many different and unexpected places, and Flavio needs a look just on the basis of what I remember from his Wikipedia page. And there are so many other people I've never heard of that I'd love to learn about.

I first heard the "DHL Eddie Jordan branding" story on the Beyond the Grid podcast when Eddie Jordan made those claims. Thanks for clearing up some of Eddie's stretched truth

In Ireland, we'd call Eddie Jordan "a chancer", That can be a negative or a positive. an insult or a term of endearment. Our soccer team failed to qualify for France 98 and Euro 2000 and the rugby team went out of the 1999 World Cup early on to Argentina which at the time was a little bit shameful, so Jordan were a really big deal in Irish sports for a wee while. I bought 2 Jordan tshirts. The quality and durability of their merch was unreal. Very cool and well made stuff! I was delighted when the 3 new teams tried to break into F1 in 2010 and sad when they all died out not that long afterwards. I think it's great for F1 that they seem to have finally cracked America and that they have decided to race mostly in countries where Democracy is a joke or a threat to the regime and Red Bull can wipe out 20% of the grid on a whim if they leave the sport. I just can't be arsed watching it anymore (No more listening to Crofty! Yay!) and I stuck in there for as long as i could. Hopefully the WEC will give me my racing fix in 2024!

Great video, what always surprises me especially with Eddie Jordans reputation for deal making is why when it became clear that Honda were only going to go with BAR that Eddie didn't sniff around the other engine manufacturers that were thinking of venturing into F1 as he new the cosworths were not competitive even working with the likes of Toyota until he could get something sorted, Audi were always sniffing around as were Porsche and if memory serves GM had a pretty good V10 being used at Le Mans that could have been converted to use in F1 especially to rub Ford the wrong way. But they and Minardi, Ligier/Prost, Arrows, Tyrrell are all huge misses now, f1 is to clinical risk averse all show and no go god forbid it rain to much, or even a retirement from pushing the car the inch of its life. Massive change up is needed bring back Eddie!

FFS is a fantastic show, highly recommended

Buzzing Hornets- where did that appear on Jordan? Or am I dreaming 😂

Someone signed my Jordan hat in 2002, it's knocking about at my mum's house, I'll have to check! The online downside of this team was the yellow attracted a lot of bees during the summer...

Eddie Jordan, Ken Tyrrell and Frank Williams were part of the charm of F1 and in my opinion it's sad that that has gone from F1. These days it's all and only about money and quite naturally that means only teams with deep pockets, like manufacturer teams, are left. The new budget caps don't do much, as driver salaries are NOT included, meaning that drivers as Verstappen and Hamilton are getting paid more than €40 million per year to race, which also in my opinion is ridiculous.

The writing on the wall for Jordan was during the Honda years when they were not able to play the politica game vs BAR despite the fact Jordan got more points than BAR during the 2001-02 season.

Ever done any vids about Hulk? If not, it would be a good time to do one as he's now F1's most experienced driver never to win a race.

I miss Jordan they were a fantastic and fun team they had a small budget but had great people in the team and they were their to race because they loved racing.

Ahh , the time F1 car engines sounded like music.❤❤❤

Jordan's major moves hinged from the start of the team and the end with "the" and "a" 😭

I thought Webber crashed first in Brazil, then Alonso?

Amother awesome Jordan video. EJ's book is a terrific read by the way. The historical accuracy is questionable at best but never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Bernie was a car salesman. And those Jordans with the snake on the nose were sexy.

Considered doing a video on Giorgio Pantano?

I loved the Jordan f1 team

Got pictures of jordan cars from that era

So close to the target!!

You gave examples of all Mugen Honda parallels except... Honda RBPT

German mail coaches were yellow long before the 1930s. It’s always been the traditional colour of the mail in many European countries and some have adopted it in the 20th century. Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain all use yellow post boxes amongst others.

Jordan would have finished fifth in 2003 if the scoring system used in 2002 had been retained. Ironically the change was Eddie's suggestion

I wonder how much cigarette and alcohol companies revenue dropped after the advertising ban.

Are you doing Toleman? I saw he passed away roday

Spraying Money Up The Walls was probably The Screamin' V10s' best album I reckon.

He had a good run, cannot fault him for that. The first 1991 car was a stunningly looking F1 car. I remember being opposite their pits at Silverstone watching the girls and Arnold (Terminator) doing photos. Wasn't Katie Price called Jordan at the time? Their pit was always such a hive of fun pre race, probably 25 years ago.

Eddie said on his podcast he convinced them to change yellow because their trucks and planes stick out more. He said he still get shares from DHL because of it

Jordan became midland for one season then Spyker for one then force Indian then technically Racing point and now Aston Martin and also getting honda engine again just like red bull are going back to a ford engine lole when there where Stewart

I believe when Frentzen got fired, they didn‘t put Sato in his car but Alesi. Frentzen took Alesi‘s seat in the Prost.

Minardi and Jordan were supported by pretty much everyone, even if they had a "proper" favourite team. Every point scored by Minardi was celebrated like a win, and until '98, pretty much the same thing for Jordan but for a few years. During those years, any non-scoring race was considered to be a bad race, regardless of what had gone on on track. The funny thing is that EJ was far more popular as a team owner than he is as a pundit (or was - he seems to have packed that in). He's also a _lot_ richer now and could probably buy AM! Not sure how he got the money, but as they ask, "How do you make a million in F1?" "Start with a billion." 😅 I'm not sure if any of you youngsters are aware, but EJ, with, I believe, a bunch of mechanics (please correct me if you know) had a band, and after the British GP (maybe others?), they'd be on stage and playing a lot of rock for thousands of F1 fans to dance - and probably drink - to. Damon was in the band. He's a great guitarist. Played lead IIRC (I could be wrong. I never got to see them live). He played with George Harrison, and I think they were in a recorded session together. Those were the days when the smaller teams in particular were more open to entertaining the crowd. Tis a shame that with the budget cap, each team is having to hunker down and keep themselves to themselves.