Flamboyant former Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan has died aged 76 after battling an “aggressive form of prostate cancer,” his family announced yesterday.
The Irishman revealed in December last year that he had bladder and prostate cancer, which had spread to his spine and pelvis.
“It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Eddie Jordan OBE, the ex-Formula 1 team owner, TV pundit and entrepreneur,” his family said in a statement.
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“He passed away peacefully with family by his side in Cape Town in the early hours of 20th March 2025 at the age of 76, after battling with an aggressive form of prostate cancer for the past 12 months,” it said.
Jordan’s team, which he named after himself, entered 250 races between 1991 and 2005.
They won four times, with Damon Hill leading home Jordan’s best-ever result — a one-two finish at the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix.
Jordan also handed Michael Schumacher his F1 debut at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix, with the German going on to win a record seven world championships — an accomplishment only matched by Lewis Hamilton in 2020.
Jordan sold his F1 team in 2005 and subsequently became a TV pundit for British television.
F1 chief executive Stefano Domenicali said ahead of this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai: “We are deeply saddened to hear about the sudden loss of Eddie Jordan.”
“With his inexhaustible energy he always knew how to make people smile, remaining genuine and brilliant at all times,” he said.
“Eddie has been a protagonist of an era of F1 and he will be deeply missed. In this moment of sorrow, my thoughts and those of the entire Formula One family are with his family and loved ones,” he added.
Earlier this year, Jordan led a consortium which bought former English rugby Premiership club London Irish. He also recently helped seal F1 design guru Adrian Newey’s switch from Red Bull to Aston Martin.
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