F1: Eddie Jordan dead at 76, Hill and Schumacher also on his team

Cape Town (South Africa), 20 Mar (LaPresse) – Mourning in the world of motorsport. Eddie Jordan, founder of the Irish team of the same name that was active in Formula One in the 1990s and 2000s and opinion leader after selling the team in 2005, has died at the age of 76. The entrepreneur, who had been ill for some time from the consequences of bladder and prostate cancer that had spread to his spine and pelvis, ‘passed away peacefully in Cape Town surrounded by his family,’ a family statement read. Michael Schumacher made his debut in Eddie Jordan's team in 1991, but also champions of the calibre of Damon Hill, who went on to win the 1996 World Championship with Williams, Rubens Barrichello, who would later become a Ferrari driver, and Heinz-Harald Frentzen, third in the 1999 World Championship at the wheel of the Jordan, which won a total of four victories in the two-wheel circus before being sold in 2005.