Were you patriotic about Jordan when they were in F1?

Godot.

I remember Peter Collins used to go absolutely mental with delight when Heinz-Harald Frentzen won a race / was doing well

mickdw

Yep loved it. Was pretty annoyed when they didn't play irish national anthem when hill won.

antodeco

Yep. In reality, its what really got me into F1.

christy c

antodeco wrote: »

Yep. In reality, its what really got me into F1.

Also what got me in to F1

CaliforniaDream

Wasn't a huge fan of Eddie but loved seeing an Irish team in it. I was also raging when they didn't have the Irish anthem.
But I was a huge Frentzen fan and loved to see him win no matter what team he was with.

Jordan 199

Godot. wrote: »

I remember Peter Collins used to go absolutely mental with delight when Heinz-Harald Frentzen won a race / was doing well

And when the Monaco GP came around, Peter would go on to Eddie's yacht for a chat.

Ghost Train

I liked the team and followed how they were doing but at that time, late 90's, early 00's, I would have followed Ferrari and Irvine mainly. I did like Frentzen too at Jordan and Fisichella. 99 was a good season for me when Irvine and Frentzen were both winning races

Nialinius

It was great for the Irish fanbase when Jordan was around, since then it's so much harder to find someone that still has interest

eviltimeban

I guess I was, was good to see them do well. The Belgium 98 race was on recently on SkyF1 and I remember it well, was a very exciting time. I'd say it did get a lot of Irish people into F1, them and Irvine.

Couldn't stand Peter Collins, a terrible commentator, so always watched it on ITV. The Murray Walker days!

supremenovice

eviltimeban wrote: »

I guess I was, was good to see them do well. The Belgium 98 race was on recently on SkyF1 and I remember it well, was a very exciting time. I'd say it did get a lot of Irish people into F1, them and Irvine.

I was in the pub in town watchin this race (kind of a F1 club if I remember right). There were big screens up and finger food - god those were the days.
Anyway, between 6 of us we put the top 6 on the grid into a hat and picked out a name each. Tenner a head. I was sick when I pulled out Hill as I always despised him going all the way back to when he was teammate to Prost in '93.
Call it irrational anti-British hatred .
It was such a crazy race with Schumacher slamming into Coulthard and Fisichella going nose first into the pit wall barrier. I remember saying to the lads collecting my £60 that it was Dirt Money. But, considering I was 16 at the time, I wasnt complaining.

I also was a massive Frentzen fan going back to '94 when he was at Sauber and all the way through his mid-grid season of '96 to being psychologically destroyed by Villeneuve at Williams in '97 to his brilliant year in '99 at Jordan when he put an overweight Hill to the sword.
Trulli gave him a run for his money in 2000 and, 2001 - well I dont know what went on there. Maybe someone can fill me in?

eviltimeban

supremenovice wrote: »

I also was a massive Frentzen fan going back to '94 when he was at Sauber and all the way through his mid-grid season of '96 to being psychologically destroyed by Villeneuve at Williams in '97 to his brilliant year in '99 at Jordan when he put an overweight Hill to the sword.
Trulli gave him a run for his money in 2000 and, 2001 - well I dont know what went on there. Maybe someone can fill me in?

Wouldn't be the biggest Frentzen fan or know it all, but I think the issue was that Jordan's success began to dwindle after Honda started supplying BAR. I think they probably saw the future as BAR (which they did, taking over the team in 2006) rather than Jordan.

Jordan ran out of money and HHF had some disagreement with the development of the car - which led him to be sacked and replaced by Alesi. Weird choice. He had a few good runs in Arrows but that was it, AFAIR.

Yeah I supported them. Remember getting home from an under-8s match to watch them finish 2nd and 3rd in Canada which was great.

Jordan 199

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah I supported them. Remember getting home from an under-8s match to watch them finish 2nd and 3rd in Canada which was great.

That was the memorable 1995 race where Alesi won his only Grand Prix. Was a hot summer in that year too.

PopePalpatine

I know there's an Irish guy who's either a director or team principal at Manor, but will we ever see an Irish driver on the grid again? At the moment I'm trying to think of prominent Irish racing drivers, all I can think of are Adam Carroll, Aron Smith and Colin Turkington.

L1011

mickdw wrote: »

Yep loved it. Was pretty annoyed when they didn't play irish national anthem when hill won.

They simply didn't have it recorded apparently. It was played for Frentzen both times, Fisi didn't get a podium ceremony as it was awarded later

JPF82

I was a huge fan, a member of the club a few times too. I do miss that level of interest. It is hard to think of any Irish drivers that are well on their way up at the minute.

Team wise, the Status GP team is a front runner in GP3 and have a team in GP2 this season also. They have strong Irish connections through David Kennedy, Mark Gallagher among others. That team ran Ireland's A1 GP team. Teddy Yip heads up Status now I think and they run under a Canadian flag AFAIK, but I still would keep an eye out for them.

flazio

They were the team that got me into F1 and the main reason RTÉ got into F1, my main memory of Peter going mental was incidentally the earlier mentioned Belgium Grand Prix, Murray was all "Oh this iis terrible, they'll have to stop the race." While Peter was telling "there's absolute CARNAGE down that straight "
Anyway definitely a Jordan fan in the day, miss the days of loads of engine suppliers like Peugeot, Yamaha, Mugen, Cosworth. And multi tyre suppliers.

mickdw

L1011 wrote: »

They simply didn't have it recorded apparently. It was played for Frentzen both times, Fisi didn't get a podium ceremony as it was awarded later

Yes I believe that was the case also.

christy c

eviltimeban wrote: »

Couldn't stand Peter Collins, a terrible commentator, so always watched it on ITV. The Murray Walker days!

We only had RTE plus I didn't know much about F1 at the time so I actually liked Peter Collins. I was fairly young when watching it but it felt like I was with one of the lads- there'd be something like a slow pit stop for one of the Jordans and David Kennedy would try to give some technical insight in to the problem when Peter would blurt out "Come on Rubens, get going". Like him or not he certainly had passion

eviltimeban

christy c wrote: »

We only had RTE plus I didn't know much about F1 at the time so I actually liked Peter Collins. I was fairly young when watching it but it felt like I was with one of the lads- there'd be something like a slow pit stop for one of the Jordans and David Kennedy would try to give some technical insight in to the problem when Peter would blurt out "Come on Rubens, get going". Like him or not he certainly had passion

Being older I just associated his voice with crappy Saturday morning TV shows. Plus he hadn't a notion about F1.

.G.

Yep Jordan started my interest in F1 too. Was great to have our own team, especially when it did well. 99 was a great season, bit more reliability and who knows, could have had a Jordan champ! Went to see the car run at Mondello too which was great, think it was the J199 running with David Kennedy driving.

Mike Litoris

I wasn't really a fan until they got all sexy and flamboyant in 97. 99 was an epic season. It felt like Ireland in the world cup except I only had about 3 people to share that excitement with.

Mike Litoris

eviltimeban wrote: »

Being older I just associated his voice with crappy Saturday morning TV shows. Plus he hadn't a notion about F1.

Yeah, thought he was shocking too. Kennedy on the other hand I thought was excellent.

CD8ED

eviltimeban wrote: »

I guess I was, was good to see them do well. The Belgium 98 race was on recently on SkyF1 and I remember it well, was a very exciting time. I'd say it did get a lot of Irish people into F1, them and Irvine.

Couldn't stand Peter Collins, a terrible commentator, so always watched it on ITV. The Murray Walker days!

Love Murray Walker, really brought a spark to Sunday afternoons "GO GO GO"

iDave

A lot of Irish lads got into Jordan (ooh matron) in the late 90s but it passed over my head. Saw them as another midlands English team. No Irish anthem in Spa confirmed that to me, didn't know about it not recorded I just assumed Jordan registered them as a UK team. I didn't like RTEs coverage either so never got exposed to Collins propaganda. Murrayisms and the Brundle analysis suited me more.
I was more of a fan of Irvine and really wanted him to win 99. Certainly more than Frentzen. Looking back probably should of jumped on the bandwagon more but there you go.

Larbre34

My Dad worked for John Daly Group who had the 7-up rights in Ireland in '90, so I got along to a few of the early promo events (I remember the F1 car being in Blackrock kind of randomly one time). I was pretty inspired by seeing the green livery and the Ireland logo, certainly got me into F1. Took a few years to figure out that '91 was a very flukey debut season!