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Jordan Grand Prix.

Jordan Grand Prix, founded in 1991 by flamboyant Irishman Eddie Jordan, has brought colour and a sense of humour to Formula One. In only a decade in the business, the team has also produced impressive results, notably three race wins, six front rows and eleven podiums in the last three years. In 1998 the team broke the top four strangle-hold of Ferrari, Williams, McLaren and Benetton which had stood since 1989; in 1999 Jordan went one better – beating two former world champions, Williams and Benetton, to leave only the might of Ferrari and McLaren un-challenged. In 2000, Jordan was the only team to join McLaren and Ferrari on the front row of the grid, but the team suffered reliability problems which, allied to much bad luck, saw it slip to sixth in the Championship.
Jordan Grand Prix is based in England at a purpose built factory across the road from the Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire which in 2001 has expanded to house ever growing departments and staff numbers. The team’s wind tunnel is housed in nearby Brackley, five miles from Jordan’s headquarters. From just 43 employees in its first season, the team employs around 250 staff whilst its budgets have increased 800 percent over the past ten years. The factory will be expanded in 2001 to include two mezzanine levels. Development of the team also sees Jordan running a two car test programme in 2001 for the first time in its history.
Jordan enjoys financial backing from title sponsor Benson and Hedges, plus Deutsche Post and a further twenty sponsors plus equity investment from investment bank Warburg, Pincus.1 In addition, the team now benefits from the experience of Honda who provide works engines. This support enables Jordan to invest in the very latest technologies necessary to become a powerful force within Formula One.
For the 2001 season, Jordan will fight for the World Championship with Germany’s Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who has signed with the team for a further two years until 2002, and with Jarno Trulli. The two racing drivers will be joined by Brazilian Ricardo Zonta who will assume the position of official test driver for the team.

The History of Eddie Jordan, Eddie Jordan Racing and Jordan Grand Prix.

1948 Eddie Jordan is born on the 30th March in Dublin.

1970 Eddie began his career as a banker, making the switch to motor racing after experiencing the thrill of karting during the summer spent in Jersey, competing in his first kart race at Bouley Bay.

1971 Eddie Jordan buys his first 100cc kart and wins the Irish Championship.

1974 Eddie moves up to FF1600 and, in a Crossle 30F chassis, wins several events in his first year of single-seater competition.

1977 Wins three Formula Atlantic races in an ex-Alan Jones March chassis.

1978 Takes the Irish Formula Atlantic Championship title in a Chevron B29. Jordan moves to Silverstone teaming up with Stefan Johannson at Team Ireland to race the Chevron chassis in the British Formula 3 Championship.

1979 Eddie makes his Formula 2 debut at Donington Park with Team Ireland, also tests the McLaren Formula One car. He sets up Eddie Jordan Racing in the same year.

1980 Retires from racing to concentrate on running Eddie Jordan Racing.

1981 David Sears drives the EJR Ralt-Toyota in the 1981 British Formula 3 series, in his first race qualifies on pole and finished second.

1982 Jordan runs cars in both British and European F3 (winning a race in Europe). Gives a young, unknown Brazilian driver his first taste of F3 - Ayrton Senna.

1983 EJ runs Martin Brundle and Allen Berg in British F3 and Tommy Byrne in Europe. Brundle takes 6 wins but only manages to finish 2nd overall due to the record number of wins by Senna.

1984 Berg repeats Brundle's performance and Stefan Johansson wins one heat at the Macau GP. Expands into the new Formula 3000 Championship but has little success.

1986 Changes from the Ralt chassis (used since their inaugural year) to a Volkswagen powered Reynard which sees the team take no less than 5 wins for Maurizio Sala and a second place in the Championship. The team also runs two March-Ford chassis in F3000.

1987 Johnny Herbert is paired with Paul Stott in the British F3 Championship with Joe Ris racing in French F3 and Tomas Kaiser racing in a few F3000 events. Wins the British F3 Championship with Herbert winning 5 rounds.

1988 Runs a total of 5 cars (2 in Class A F3, one in Class B and 2 in F3000). The Class B F3 entry, driven by Rowan Dewhurst comes second overall with, once again, 5 wins. Tragically Johnny Herbert's first season of international racing is cut short by a horrific accident at Brands Hatch (after winning the first round) so EJ looks to Martin Donnelly (replacing Tomas Danielsson) for results. Remarkably he finishes third overall even though he drives in only 5 of 11 races in the F3000 calendar.

1989 Donnelly is joined in F3000 by Jean Alesi and after a dominant season for Jordan, Alesi wins the crown with Donnelly finishing second. Eddie also runs successful cars in both British F3000 and F3.

1990 Eddie cuts back his operations in readiness for a move up to F1 and because of this only cars are run, all three in F3000. Eddie Irvine is the most successful of the three (partnered by Heinz Harald Frentzen) and comes third overall. Gary Anderson joins Jordan Grand Prix.

1991 The Jordan 191 takes the other F1 teams by surprise and shocks many with a well deserved 5th place in the Formula One Constructors' Championship. Andrea De Cesaris wins 9 points, Bertron Gachot adding another 3. Michael Schumacher drives for one race before being pinched by Benetton. Damon Hill and Vincenzo Sospiri drive Mugen powered Reynards to little success due to a poor chassis design, making Eddie Jordan one of the only people to run F3000 and F1 at the same time.

1992 Jordan Grand Prix move to a purpose built site, getting major sponsorship deals and a works engine deal with Yamaha. Results are bad with the team scoring only one point (at Adelaide by Stefano Modena) over the whole season.

1993 Signs a deal with Brian Hart for his new v10 engine, Rubens Barrichello joins the team. The combination of chassis, engine and driver is good. Barrichello nearly takes a podium place in the European GP at Donington, but a fuel pressure problem stops him with only a few laps to go. The team finishes up with 3 points, Barrichello get 2 with Eddie Irvine taking 1.

1994 Barrichello takes 4th at the Brazilian GP and then 3rd at the Pacific GP (the team's first podium place). Barrichello takes both his and the teams first pole position at Spa in Belgium. By the end of the season the team had scored 28 points (over twice their previous best) Barrichello getting 19, Irvine 6 and de Cesaris taking 3 while Irvine was banned. The team secures fifth place in the Championship.

1995 The start of a 3-year deal with Peugeot and Total and the retention of the Barrichello and Irvine was more positive than some results. There was 2nd and 3rd at the Canadian GP however. Barrichello ends up with 11 points and Irvine with 10. Sixth place in the Constructors Championship for the team.

1996 Benson and Hedges pump major investment into the team. Martin Brundle renews his racing ties with Jordan as Irvine goes to Ferrari. Another average season for the team with no podium places. Barrichello gets 14 points, Brundle adds 8. Fifth in the Constructors Championship.

1997 Ralf Schumacher and Giancarlo Fisichella join with only 8 F1 races between them. They show inexperience and enthusiasm in abundance which makes for exciting racing. 3 podium finishes but twice manage to collide with each other. Despite the opening of their own wind tunnel Jordan Grand Prix is still chasing that elusive first win. Fisichella impresses more with 20 points, Schumacher jr wins 13 points. Best ever number of points – 33, another fifth in the Constructors Championship.

1998 Damon Hill signs again for Jordan replacing Fisichella, Mugen Honda replaces Peugot as the works engine. The season starts very slowly with the team way off the pace. Mid season Eddie replaces Gary Anderson as Technical Director/Chief Designer with Mike Gascoyne. Big improvements from the British GP on means that Jordan finally get their 1st Grand Prix Win at the Belgian GP. An excellent end to the season sees the team finish 4th in the Constructors Championship with a best ever 34 points. Damon ends with 20 points, Ralf with 14.

1999 Eddie signs Heinz-Harald Frentzen to partner Hill and for the first time Jordan will have two race winners in the team.
The season starts with a 2nd place for Frentzen in Australia and that sets the tone for the season. Heinz-Harald wins twice, at Magny-Cours and Monza, has one second, three third places and five fourths. He also got the team's second ever pole position at the European GP. The team end the season in a best ever third place in the constructors championship with 61 points. Heinz-Harald contributing 54 for third in the driver's championship, Damon adds a disappointing 7 points.

2000 Coming into the 2000 season there was great anticipation in the Jordan camp after the stunning 1999 year and the exciting young Italian Jarno Trulli joining Heinz-Harald at the wheel.
The season started well with Frentzen leading for a short while in Australia before both cars broke down and that set the tone for the whole year. The car was fast, but bad relaibility and the only luck being all bad meant a year which was a huge disappointment over recent years. There were a few moments of cheer - a third and fourth place at Brazil and a third at Indianapolis. Heinz-Harald qualified on the front row at Silverstone and Jarno beat that with the same at Spa and Monaco. These aside there was nothing of note to remember from the Grand Prix circuits.
Away from the racetrack the news was both good and bad - an invaluable deal was signed for the long-term supply of the Honda works engine but Technical Director Mike Gascoyne moved on.
The team end the season sixth in the constructors championship with 17 points. Heinz-Harald contributing 11 , Jarno with a further 6 points.
On a positive note, Heinz and Jarno will again drive for 2001.

Jordan Grand Prix - Key Personnel.

Eddie Jordan – CEO

From modest beginnings as a mid-field racing driver in the 1970s Eddie Jordan has, in the space of 20 years, become one of Formula One’s biggest players. In what has become a big business sport, dominated by blue chip corporations and motor manufacturers, Eddie Jordan is the only entrepreneur to have successfully established an F1 team and to remain its majority shareholder. His charisma, energy and love of life have made his team, Jordan Grand Prix, one of Formula One’s best loved teams.
Jordan began his career as a banker, making the switch to motor racing after experiencing the thrill of karting during a summer spent in Jersey. After progressing through various motor sport categories (see Career Highlights), winning several races and championships, he made his second career switch, this time from driver to team owner to form Eddie Jordan Racing in 1980. “I was married with one child and another on the way, and we had no money,” explains Jordan. “It would have been selfish to continue.”
As team owner, Jordan could sell, he could charm, and he knew how to make a race team work; all the necessary ingredients which were to give him almost immediate success.
After ten years in the lower formulae, he entered the jewel in motor racing’s crown - Formula One - with the creation of Jordan Grand Prix in 1991. The team finished its debut year in an impressive fifth place in the World Championship and brought to the sport an energy and vibrance previously unknown. Ten years on, Jordan Grand Prix boasts a string of victories and membership of the Formula One elite.
Jordan is a key player on the F1 field, negotiating contracts with major sponsors and breaking new ground by securing investment from global equity investor, Warburg, Pincus (Jordan Grand Prix was the first F1 team to gain investment from a financial institution).
Undoubtedly the most charismatic F1 team owner, Jordan juggles joie de vivre with business dealings. Time away from the race track is spent at rock concerts, with friends in the music business, at soccer matches, golf tournaments or following his other racing sport - horse racing. Known for playing the drums at an impromptu rock concert or for phoning home as soon as a Grand Prix is finished to find out the football scores, Jordan’s way of combining the high life with his love of homely pleasures makes him popular with media and F1 fans alike. “I have been accused of not being a serious operator,” says Jordan,

Eghbal Hamidy – Technical Director

Hamidy joined Jordan Grand Prix as the team’s Technical Director at the start of the 2001, having over a decade of experience in F1.
His particular area of expertise lies in the aerodynamic field and he heads up the team responsible for the design of the Jordan-Honda EJ12.
Hamidy’s academic curiosity was sparked at a young age by the Apollo programme and his extensive wind tunnel experience took him to Williams Grand Prix in 1988 where he remained for eight years, before moving to Stewart-Ford and then Arrows prior to joining Jordan.

Trevor Foster – Managing Director

Appointed Joint Managing Director of Jordan Grand Prix in 1998, Trevor Foster, 47, has played a key role in the team’s success. As team manager of Eddie Jordan Racing in the 1980s he was responsible for guiding the team to victory in the 1987 British Formula 3 Championship and 1989 FIA Formula 3000 series, before taking the team into Formula One under the new name of Jordan Grand Prix in 1991.
Foster’s career spans 30 years, having previously worked with other F1 teams including Tyrrell and Team Lotus. He has also run teams in Formula 3 and Formula Ford 2000, though Formula One dominates his CV.
Following Jordan’s acquisition of Benson and Hedges’ sponsorship in 1996, it was Foster who masterminded the development of the team, putting resources into new areas of technology and research and development.
He is responsible for the day to day management of race team activities in terms of all Formula One team operations. Together with Eddie Jordan, newly appointed Chief Operating Officer John Putt, Director of Business Affairs Ian Phillips and Financial Controller Richard O’Driscoll, this forms the senior management team of the company.
A keen follower of all forms of motor racing, Foster has a sharp eye for up-and-coming talent, having worked with Eddie Jordan to give drivers such as Michael and Ralf Schumacher, Johnny Herbert, Jean Alesi, Martin Donnelly, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Eddie Irvine their break into Formula One.
During Grand Prix weekends Foster joins the race engineering team in developing strategy and technical direction for the race.

John Putt – Chief Operating Officer.

John Putt joined Jordan Grand Prix in November 2000 in the role of Chief Operating Officer. He will be responsible for the day to day running of the factory as the team prepares for its onslaught in the 2001 Formula One World Championship with its new partner Honda Motor Company.
His appointment enables Eddie Jordan to expand his role within the commercial side of the organisation, and allow joint managing director Trevor Foster to continue in his primary role of overseeing the team’s racing performance.
John Putt has known Eddie Jordan for almost ten years. Their early friendship gained another dimension when Putt acted as management advisor to the team from 1996 to 1998. “In the four years that I have been closely associated with Jordan,” says Putt, “I’ve never been more excited at the prospect. Honda is in Formula One to win and Jordan is a major player now and we are very, very serious about delivering. And there is no one more serious than Eddie. I have seen so many plateaus at Jordan."
"Eddie has grasped every opportunity, and this is another one. There are very exciting times ahead for Jordan Grand Prix and I'm really pleased to be a part of the team.”
Putt makes his judgment based on 21 years experience in the automotive supply industry, working with Honda since 1981, and also with Nissan and Toyota. Since 1998 he has been working for management consultants, McKinsey & Company, as director of its Production System Design Centre, an internal training school specialising in optimising performance in people and processes.

Tim Holloway – Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering, Tim Holloway, leads Jordan’s technical team with a quiet sense of authority. Heading up the same core team which has been responsible for the design and build of the 1999 and 2000 cars, Holloway’s modest manner conceals a level of knowledge, competence and professionalism built up over nearly 30 years’ experience in the sport. “Heading the Jordan design team is an exciting challenge which I am enjoying immensely,” he says.
Holloway began in motor sport with March Engineering in 1975, working through F3, to F2, Indy Cars and then F3000. In 1987 he moved into F1 with the Leyton House March Team as Head of the Drawing Office and as Race Engineer for Ivan Capelli, progressing to Director of Engineering.
In 1995 he joined Jordan Grand Prix, moving through the ranks from Race Engineer, through Chief Engineer to his current role as Head of Engineering which he took up on Mike Gascoyne’s departure.
“My role is very much to manage the people in their roles,” he explains.
"What matters most is team work, and it is my responsibility to ensure the right dynamics between the 53 people in the Engineering department.
"The calibre of the people is very high and everyone has an important job to do to make the EJ11 a success. The key jobs are undertaken by John Iley, who’s responsible for the aerodynamics, John McQuilliam who is in charge of the rest of the car’s design, and Mike Wroe on electronics.”
Holloway is a pragmatic man who tells things as they are, without the hype typically found in F1. His sense of excitement at Jordan’s new relationship with Honda is therefore all the more encouraging.
“Honda have the potential to have the number one engine in F1, but we have to remember our relationship with them is in its infancy.
"The ingredients for success are there – it’s up to us to make the relationship work. 2000 was a hiccup for Jordan, although people forget we were on the front row more often than we were in 1999. There is a lot of promise for the future. My ambition is to be with the team that wins races and that’s what all of us in the design team are working for.”

Ian Phillips – Director of Business Affairs.

Phillips, 50, who has been at Jordan since the team’s first year, is responsible for Jordan’s commercial contracts with drivers and sponsors and is a key adviser to Eddie Jordan, forming part of the team’s senior management.

Mark Gallagher – Head of Marketing.

Gallagher, 39, first joined Jordan as Press Officer to launch the team in 1991. He now heads up the team’s Marketing Department, with a key role in sponsorship acquisition.

Giselle Davies – Head of Corporate Communications.

Davies, 32, who joined the team in 1997, is responsible for overseeing Jordan’s communications, including media and public relations.

David Brown – Senior Race Engineer for Frentzen

Brown, 41, is a new recruit at Jordan Grand Prix who started with the team in November 2000. He is responsible for the Engineering Department and works alongside Tim Holloway on the development of the EJ11.

Gabrielle Delli Colli – Senior Race Engineer for Trulli

Gabriele Delli Colli joins the Team as Jarno Trulli’s new race engineer.
The 34 year old Italian spent his first three years in Formula One as race engineer with the Sauber Team.

Phil Spencer – Chief Mechanic

Spencer, 45, has been with the team for four years. He recently moved from Chief Mechanic on the Test Team to take up the position of Chief Mechanic on the Race Team.

Matt Deane – Heinz-Harald's No.1 Mechanic

Deane, 27, joined Jordan in 1997 as a front-end test team mechanic before moving on to become No.1 Mechanic for Heinz-Harald Frentzen.

Nick Burrows – Jarno's No.1 Mechanic

Burrows, 41, has been No.1 mechanic throughout Jordan’s Grand Prix history. He joined Jordan in F3000 in 1998 and was No.1 mechanic on Jean Alesi’s F3000 Championship winning car in 1989. In 2000 he moved to be Jarno’s No.1 mechanic.

Jim Vale – Team Manager

Vale, 50, from Melbourne, joined Jordan as a mechanic in 1991. He progressed to Chief Mechanic and became Team Manager in 1996, responsible for overseeing race and test team logistics.

Gerard O’Reilly – Chief Truckie

O’Reilly, of Irish descent, has worked for Jordan for seven years and oversees a team of nine truckies.

Jordan Personnel - how many work where.

Management 10 Finance 5

Drawing Office 2 Test Engineers 5

Wind Tunnel/RD 5 Vehicle Dynamics Group 9

Aerodynamics 11 Composites 7

Mechanical Design 9 Calculations 2

Electronics/Software 11 Race Team 21

Test Team 16 Hydraulics 6

Sub Assembly 12 Inspection 5

Stores 9 Facilities Support 5

Fabrication 5 Machine Shop 8

Production Control 7 Purchasing 1

Information Technology 3 Admin 6

Apprentices 5 Model Shop 13

Composites 26 Pattern Shop 4

Total 231 and rising!

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1948	Eddie Jordan is born on the 30th March in Dublin.
1970	Eddie began his career as a banker, making the switch to motor racing after experiencing the thrill of karting during the summer spent in Jersey, competing in his first kart race at Bouley Bay.
1971	Eddie Jordan buys his first 100cc kart and wins the Irish Championship.
1974	Eddie moves up to FF1600 and, in a Crossle 30F chassis, wins several events in his first year of single-seater competition.
1977	Wins three Formula Atlantic races in an ex-Alan Jones March chassis.
1978	Takes the Irish Formula Atlantic Championship title in a Chevron B29. Jordan moves to Silverstone teaming up with Stefan Johannson at Team Ireland to race the Chevron chassis in the British Formula 3 Championship.
1979	Eddie makes his Formula 2 debut at Donington Park with Team Ireland, also tests the McLaren Formula One car. He sets up Eddie Jordan Racing in the same year.
1980	Retires from racing to concentrate on running Eddie Jordan Racing.
1981	David Sears drives the EJR Ralt-Toyota in the 1981 British Formula 3 series, in his first race qualifies on pole and finished second.
1982	Jordan runs cars in both British and European F3 (winning a race in Europe). Gives a young, unknown Brazilian driver his first taste of F3 - Ayrton Senna.
1983	EJ runs Martin Brundle and Allen Berg in British F3 and Tommy Byrne in Europe. Brundle takes 6 wins but only manages to finish 2nd overall due to the record number of wins by Senna.
1984	Berg repeats Brundle's performance and Stefan Johansson wins one heat at the Macau GP. Expands into the new Formula 3000 Championship but has little success.
1986	Changes from the Ralt chassis (used since their inaugural year) to a Volkswagen powered Reynard which sees the team take no less than 5 wins for Maurizio Sala and a second place in the Championship. The team also runs two March-Ford chassis in F3000.
1987	Johnny Herbert is paired with Paul Stott in the British F3 Championship with Joe Ris racing in French F3 and Tomas Kaiser racing in a few F3000 events. Wins the British F3 Championship with Herbert winning 5 rounds.
1988	Runs a total of 5 cars (2 in Class A F3, one in Class B and 2 in F3000). The Class B F3 entry, driven by Rowan Dewhurst comes second overall with, once again, 5 wins. Tragically Johnny Herbert's first season of international racing is cut short by a horrific accident at Brands Hatch (after winning the first round) so EJ looks to Martin Donnelly (replacing Tomas Danielsson) for results. Remarkably he finishes third overall even though he drives in only 5 of 11 races in the F3000 calendar.
1989	Donnelly is joined in F3000 by Jean Alesi and after a dominant season for Jordan, Alesi wins the crown with Donnelly finishing second. Eddie also runs successful cars in both British F3000 and F3.
1990	Eddie cuts back his operations in readiness for a move up to F1 and because of this only cars are run, all three in F3000. Eddie Irvine is the most successful of the three (partnered by Heinz Harald Frentzen) and comes third overall. Gary Anderson joins Jordan Grand Prix.
1991	The Jordan 191 takes the other F1 teams by surprise and shocks many with a well deserved 5th place in the Formula One Constructors' Championship. Andrea De Cesaris wins 9 points, Bertron Gachot adding another 3. Michael Schumacher drives for one race before being pinched by Benetton. Damon Hill and Vincenzo Sospiri drive Mugen powered Reynards to little success due to a poor chassis design, making Eddie Jordan one of the only people to run F3000 and F1 at the same time.
1992	Jordan Grand Prix move to a purpose built site, getting major sponsorship deals and a works engine deal with Yamaha. Results are bad with the team scoring only one point (at Adelaide by Stefano Modena) over the whole season.
1993	Signs a deal with Brian Hart for his new v10 engine, Rubens Barrichello joins the team. The combination of chassis, engine and driver is good. Barrichello nearly takes a podium place in the European GP at Donington, but a fuel pressure problem stops him with only a few laps to go. The team finishes up with 3 points, Barrichello get 2 with Eddie Irvine taking 1.
1994	Barrichello takes 4th at the Brazilian GP and then 3rd at the Pacific GP (the team's first podium place). Barrichello takes both his and the teams first pole position at Spa in Belgium. By the end of the season the team had scored 28 points (over twice their previous best) Barrichello getting 19, Irvine 6 and de Cesaris taking 3 while Irvine was banned. The team secures fifth place in the Championship.
1995	The start of a 3-year deal with Peugeot and Total and the retention of the Barrichello and Irvine was more positive than some results. There was 2nd and 3rd at the Canadian GP however. Barrichello ends up with 11 points and Irvine with 10. Sixth place in the Constructors Championship for the team.
1996	Benson and Hedges pump major investment into the team. Martin Brundle renews his racing ties with Jordan as Irvine goes to Ferrari. Another average season for the team with no podium places. Barrichello gets 14 points, Brundle adds 8. Fifth in the Constructors Championship.
1997	Ralf Schumacher and Giancarlo Fisichella join with only 8 F1 races between them. They show inexperience and enthusiasm in abundance which makes for exciting racing. 3 podium finishes but twice manage to collide with each other. Despite the opening of their own wind tunnel Jordan Grand Prix is still chasing that elusive first win. Fisichella impresses more with 20 points, Schumacher jr wins 13 points. Best ever number of points – 33, another fifth in the Constructors Championship.
1998	Damon Hill signs again for Jordan replacing Fisichella, Mugen Honda replaces Peugot as the works engine. The season starts very slowly with the team way off the pace. Mid season Eddie replaces Gary Anderson as Technical Director/Chief Designer with Mike Gascoyne. Big improvements from the British GP on means that Jordan finally get their 1st Grand Prix Win at the Belgian GP. An excellent end to the season sees the team finish 4th in the Constructors Championship with a best ever 34 points. Damon ends with 20 points, Ralf with 14.
1999	Eddie signs Heinz-Harald Frentzen to partner Hill and for the first time Jordan will have two race winners in the team. The season starts with a 2nd place for Frentzen in Australia and that sets the tone for the season. Heinz-Harald wins twice, at Magny-Cours and Monza, has one second, three third places and five fourths. He also got the team's second ever pole position at the European GP. The team end the season in a best ever third place in the constructors championship with 61 points. Heinz-Harald contributing 54 for third in the driver's championship, Damon adds a disappointing 7 points.
2000	Coming into the 2000 season there was great anticipation in the Jordan camp after the stunning 1999 year and the exciting young Italian Jarno Trulli joining Heinz-Harald at the wheel. The season started well with Frentzen leading for a short while in Australia before both cars broke down and that set the tone for the whole year. The car was fast, but bad relaibility and the only luck being all bad meant a year which was a huge disappointment over recent years. There were a few moments of cheer - a third and fourth place at Brazil and a third at Indianapolis. Heinz-Harald qualified on the front row at Silverstone and Jarno beat that with the same at Spa and Monaco. These aside there was nothing of note to remember from the Grand Prix circuits. Away from the racetrack the news was both good and bad - an invaluable deal was signed for the long-term supply of the Honda works engine but Technical Director Mike Gascoyne moved on. The team end the season sixth in the constructors championship with 17 points. Heinz-Harald contributing 11 , Jarno with a further 6 points. On a positive note, Heinz and Jarno will again drive for 2001.

Jordan Personnel - how many work where.
Management	10	Finance	5
Drawing Office	2	Test Engineers	5
Wind Tunnel/RD	5	Vehicle Dynamics Group	9
Aerodynamics	11	Composites	7
Mechanical Design	9	Calculations	2
Electronics/Software	11	Race Team	21
Test Team	16	Hydraulics	6
Sub Assembly	12	Inspection	5
Stores	9	Facilities Support	5
Fabrication	5	Machine Shop	8
Production Control	7	Purchasing	1
Information Technology	3	Admin	6
Apprentices	5	Model Shop	13
Composites	26	Pattern Shop	4
Total		231 and rising!