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Eddie Jordan was a popular member of the F1 paddock - Getty Images/Clive Rose
Eddie Jordan, the former Formula One team owner and current co-owner of London Irish rugby club, has died at the age of 76.
Jordan revealed in December that he had been undergoing treatment for “aggressive” bladder and prostate cancer but said that he had “pulled out of it, thankfully”, urging men to get their prostates checked.
The cancer is understood to have returned aggressively. Jordan died in South Africa, where he lived for part of the year.
Jordan founded his eponymous team in 1991, becoming a huge paddock figure during that decade. Jordan Grand Prix achieved their best-ever result when drivers Damon Hill and Ralf Schumacher finished first and second at the Belgian Grand Prix in 1998.
They finished third in the championship the following year when Heinz-Harald Frentzen also challenged for the drivers’ title, winning two races en route to a third-place finish. Frentzen had to retire from the lead of the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring that year. Had he won he would have been within a point of the championship lead with two rounds remaining.
Jordan faded as a force in the 2000s, losing a Honda engine partnership deal to the BAR team in 2002, which combined with the loss of sponsors DHL and Benson & Hedges put the team in a difficult position. He was bought out by Midland in 2005.
Jordan, who was born in Dublin in 1948, continued to be a big figure in the sport, as a pundit on television and radio, and latterly as a podcaster on his Formula For Success podcast which he co-hosts with ex-driver David Coulthard.
A larger-than-life character, he owned homes in Cape Town, South Kensington, London and Monaco, where he kept his yacht. Even last year he was instrumental in Adrian Newey’s move from Red Bull to Aston Martin, acting as Newey’s agent.
Last month Jordan led a consortium to buy London Irish more than a year after the Premiership club was suspended from all rugby for being unable to pay its players.
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