Not long after my lodger-turned-Formula-1-driver Eddie Irvine left Jordan to join Ferrari, Eddie Jordan got to know the then-40-year-old Lawrence Stroll, whose Tommy Hilfiger fashion company was sponsoring the Scuderia.
Never one to waste time, there soon followed the inevitable request from EJ to produce a proposal, dispatched to Stroll, inviting him to bring his financial support to Jordan Grand Prix. I still have the document on a 3.5-inch floppy disk somewhere in my garage.
Although Stroll declined, 20 years later it is one of life's neater outcomes that the Canadian billionaire has ended up owning the team outright.