F1, Jordan points to the most overrated driver: “He was like Schumacher”
F1, Jordan points to the mostù overrated driver: "He was like Schumacher"
Eddie Jordan, patron of the former Formula 1 team of the same name, in an interview with the Formula for Success podcast surprised by talking about the fastest driver he ever had in the team: "&It's unfair to say who was the fastest driver I ever had, because Jordan had some shitty cars". and others wonderful".
"For what Damon Hill has given us in terms of skill, knowledge of how to win, structure and mentality, to the question ‘Who has had the most influence on you, giving you motivation and a good path to follow?’ I would answer without a doubt Hill, even though he may not have been the fastest driver we have had. In terms of pure speed there are several, I might say Bertrand Gachot and Eddie Irvine".
"Then there’è Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who è was the most underrated driver we ever had. He had the’ability’to do incredible things. When Schumacher and Frentzen were in the same car (in Formula 3 ed.), Heinz-Harald was as fast as Michael and most of the time he was even faster".
"Frentzen però did not have that total self-confidence that I believe a driver must have to be a world champion. Although Frentzen finished third in a World Championship with Jordan, he could not have gone any further".
"È it is also true that we could have given him a better car, and that Williams gave him little confidence: he and Patrick Head did not get along very well, è it is a pity that at Grove he won only one race, he had results too low for the talent he had".
