This (Jordan's constant owner changes) reads like a bad restaurant that's always changing their owners and menus. :)
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This (Jordan's constant owner changes) reads like a bad restaurant that's always changing their owners and menus. :)
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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
Adds just about as much to the coversation as you.
And yet here you are, obviously interested enough to watch on TV and post here. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by GingerLynn
I liked Eddie Jordan just fine. He was a good character for the sport to have around: bright yellow cars and busty, bouncy girls... doesn't get much better than that. But I'm not moronic enough to think that "F1 should be killed" because he lost the skill to put a program together. He was a fun guy... but Colin Chapman, he was not.Quote:
Originally Posted by GingerLynn
So bring it... whacha got? :dozey:
P.S. Jailhouse Girls was a masterpiece. You should have won an award of some type for that one. :D
Funny. He just got very rich and eventually run his team into the ground. He started off OK, but he saw he could make his money, and did so, to the ultimate detriment of his team.Quote:
Originally Posted by GingerLynn
That is plain sad. IMHO.
I guess you didn't hear about the scandal involving EJ and the $20 million of compensation money from Honda that went walkies then....Quote:
Originally Posted by GingerLynn
I'm quite glad that the likes of TW and EJ have disappeared from F1, the sport got a lot cleaner without them.
Oh, didn't know about that, got any info?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dylan H
He was also inclined to sack drivers via fax rather than face them. F1 needs someone like EJ like anyone would need an extra hole about 3 feet below the neck.
Yep, Honda paid Jordan about $20 million in compensation for cutting short their engine deal in 2003.... except that the money never reached the team. It was funneled into an account held by an Irish company owned by EJ and his wife.
EJ then attacked the major manufacturers for not doing more to help the small teams get affordable engines including Honda. How he did this with a straight face I'll never know. Anyway a few months later some Irish bankers audited the team with a view to buying into it themselves, found the ruse, told EJ to sort it out and exited stage left pretty promptly. I believe in the end the money was returned to the team.
The Ford deal cost less than what Honda had paid in compensation so in theory EJ made a profit anyway, merely a smaller one than originally envisioned.
When they say "we don't have people like him in the sport any more" I find it difficult to shed too many tears.
Actually in 2005 and 2006, the squad had the same owner through most fo the 2006 season, when Spyker bought the team.