Eddie Jordan, Gone but not Forgotten
Former F1 owner Eddie Jordan has been gone from the F1 Circus since selling his Jordan team in early 2005 to wealthy Canadian businessman Alex Schnaider.
That team is now co-owned by Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya that competes as Force India. The team still operates out of Jordan’s old premises at Silverstone. But the dream of Eddie Jordan, his pride and joy, the “rock and roll team,” were lost forever to the hard realities of modern Formula 1.
Eddie may be gone, but he’s certainly not forgotten, least of all by the teams current owners.
In a dispute over access to the team factory he’s blocked access, access that Eddie says crosses his land. The ever irrepressible Jordon has constructed a wall of concrete blocks across the main access road while Force India were in Malaysia for last weekend’s GP.
“I had to make a stand, they have to come and talk to me,” he said. “I paid for the road and put it on my land.”
“I’ve got no problem with Mallya,” he added. “It’s the people who are managing the business who don’t want to talk.”
Now I have to admit, that’s funny. And typical Eddie. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn he had trowel and brick jointer in hand and listening to cuts from V10’s last album (or the latest incarnation “Eddie & The Robbers”) as he piled on another row of concrete blocks.




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