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BBC Confirm David Coulthard & Eddie Jordan For 2009 » BlogF1 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:37:52 +0000

[...] Eddie Jordan To Make A Formula One Comeback? [...]

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:14:55 +0000

As a Jordan fanatic and follower I am delighted at this news. DC, one of my favourite drivers and Brundle, one of my favourite presenters.

Hey this is my dream team.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:10:55 +0000

That has got to be the only time I have ever heard of anyone making money out of speeding on the public highway, Steven…

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:36:45 +0000

I am all for EJ being part of the commentary team. He will be blunt and say what he is thinking. I can’t imagine had he been involved at Valencia, Spa, or Fuji that he would have toed the official FIA line on those penalties.

EJ has a way of saying things that generally gets him out of trouble rather than into it so I am not too worried about him upsetting the professionally sensitive BBC viewers.

By means of an example of getting himself out of trouble I give you my favourite EJ story. He was a budding racing driver getting as far as F3 before he decided that he was better running a team than driving. Early in his career he was coming back form a race towing his race car on a trailer at an extremely high rate of knots. He had a couple of mates in the car with him. He noticed a police car behind signalling him to stop. They all thought this time EJ would lose his license for sure as he was not a stranger to this kind of situation.

After a long chat with the policemen EJ returned to his car. He was asked wht the outcome was. ‘Yer man is coming to collect it on Wednesday’ replied EJ. Not only had he talked himself out of trouble but he had sold the car he was driving to the cop. You need to be a bit special to do that.

By: Stephen Hill

Stephen Hill — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:19:17 +0000

I think we need commentators that are willing to question the sports activities, whether good or bad.

I feel the ITV does this very well and I fear that the BBC will not be so forthcoming in their views.

I hope martin and mark are kept on for next year.

Stephen

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:05:44 +0000

Pink Peril, that was Canada 2003. Possibly the most bizarre press conference F1 has ever seen. It didn’t exactly help that Mercedes had promised Jordan a $10m engine but Ford then threatened to withdraw its support from the GPMA if Mercedes didn’t withdraw its engine offer to Jordan. So EJ was stuck trying to balance being nice enough to the manufacturers to get the engine supply with being tough enough with them to get the fighting fund. As the conference records quite vividly, he failed completely.

He is tough enough to stand up to the FIA, and he has done several times since he stopped being a team manager. The trouble is that his position is relatively easily compromised. To use Pink Peril’s metaphor, he would be a fly in the FIA ointment, but squashed worryingly easily.

By: Pink Peril

Pink Peril — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:00:24 +0000

I dunno. I will always remember the wingman role he played to Stoddart in the revenue sharing fiasco back in ‘04 or whenever it was (there have been so many scandals in F1 in recent years I can no longer keep track of when they all occurred) and was found to be severely lacking in cohuna’s to stand up to the other team bosses.

How then, would he manage to stand up to the FIA and call them out when needed?

I remain unconvinced that he would be a fly in the FIA ointment.

I do though, love the concrete/Force India story which has gotta be worth considering him for that alone !

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:46:29 +0000

I’m happy about Eddie rocking boats. It’s how he goes about rocking boats that may be a problem to the BBC – they wouldn’t want too many “Angry from Tunbridge Wells” letters complaining about the language used in what is usually lunchtime programming…

By: Gusto

Gusto — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:25:41 +0000

I get the impression that Eddie will be to willing to tow the line, something Brudle wasn`t. I think that if He is `Barred` from the BBC by the FiA, it will be the biggest travesty since Boudouis was penilised for travelling in a diminishing Arc after a pit stop while disturbing Max`s toy car ( did you see the size of that sucker during he`s interview, that must of cost a fortune, not that he paid for it!

By: Oliver White

Oliver White — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:20:42 +0000

as long as he could speak in a way that didn’t require the swearbox to be used too much

I know the Beeb wouldn’t stand for it, but I think that may be the part that I want the most! As in, Eddie is usually outspoken about many things; he has no problem rocking boats. When it comes to Formula One, I would welcome that.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:43:22 +0000

I think Eddie could do well as part of the BBC’s team, as long as he could speak in a way that didn’t require the swearbox to be used too much. However, the Brundle situation is more worrying for me.