Jordan: We Aimed too High
Team boss Eddie Jordan has said that the team's financial problems over past seasons are down to the fact the Silverstone-based outfit thought they were bigger then they actually were.
Team boss Eddie Jordan has said that the team's financial problems over past seasons are down to the fact the Silverstone-based outfit thought they were bigger then they actually were.
Jordan finished an impressive third in the manufacturers' championship in the 1999 season, behind Ferrari and McLaren, while German driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen was third overall behind Finn Mika Hakkinen and Irishman Eddie Irvine.
Jordan said that in the last three seasons his team have been troubled because of the fact they believed they were a firm fixture in the top-three teams and felt they needed to match the spending of Ferrari and McLaren.
"We tried too much," Jordan told The Guardian newspaper. "In the last three years we thought we belonged in the top three and needed to have the resources of McLaren and Ferrari. But we're not a corporation. Jordan is one of the old independents.
"And I worry for the future of the independents, the privateers. I worry for the colour and the future of the sport."
Jordan were the sixth best team in 2000, ended fifth in 2001 and sixth again this season.
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