When he wasn't driving people off the road, ramming other cars, parking in the middle of the track or trying to punch David Coulthard, Michael Schumacher displayed a dazzling talent for finding new ways to disadvatage his team-mate.

We're being slightly churlish, of course, but Schumacher's reputation as a driver will forever be coloured by the unsporting manner in which he raced. His first break in F1 came with Jordan at Spa in 1991 and his second with Ferrari at Silverstone in 1999, when he fractured a leg crashing at Stowe.

His final F1 drive through the field at Interlagos was a reminder of what his legacy could have been if he hadn't been quite so ready to tarnish it quite so frequently.

The wanker.

Jordan was the original incarnation of F1's hot potato, founded by brass-necked chancer Eddie Jordan. The team was famous for draping bikini-clad lovelies over its cars and also for discovering new talent but will never be excused in certain circles for giving Michael Schumacher his first drive in Formula One.

The team stepped up from F3000 in 1991, with Andrea de Cesaris and Bertrand Gachot behind the wheel, and ended the season in an impressive fifth place in the constructors' championship.

The year was not without incident, however.

Gachot found himself unable to complete the season after being imprisoned for attacking a London taxi driver and his replacement, the debutant Michael Schumacher, was nicked by Benetton after just one race. Jordan claimed a breach of contract but the case was thrown out of court and the next time a Schumacher would sit in a Jordan was in 1997, when Michael's petulant brother Ralf somehow talked his way into a drive.

Events in the Jordan pit were often more entertaining than those on the track and Eddie Irvine wasted no time in contributing to this, when he made his debut at Suzuka in 1993. Years of racing in Japan had given Eddie intimate knowledge of the track (and of some of the less choosy local lovelies too) but that didn't wash with Ayrton Senna when Irvine passed the Brazilian's McLaren to unlap himself in the closing stages. Senna later paid a visit to the Jordan garage and punched Irvine in the face, which may have been a slight over-reaction but is something that a lot of blokes and no doubt many, many women have wanted to do to the cocky little gobshite over the years.

For a whole decade Jordan's title sponsor was tobacco-pushing giant Benson & Hedges and, after painting the 1996 car a fetching gold to make it look like a B&H packet, the team showed not inconsiderable creative flair in getting round the cigarette advertising ban. Who can forget the "Bitten & Hisses" snake, the "Buzzing Hornets", um, hornet, the "Bitten Heroes" shark or the simple entreaty to "Be On Edge"?

An extraordinary Belgian Grand Prix in 1998 saw the team record its first victory and they did it in style, with a euphoric Damon Hill leading his sulking team-mate Ralf Schumacher in a one-two that seemed to be almost universally celebrated. The streets were strangely quiet in Kerpen that night.

The 1999 season built on this, with Heinz-Harald Frentzen somehow recording results, including two wins, that gave him an outside chance at the world title, before McLaren and Ferrari stopped mucking about. Frentzen still finished third overall and Jordan also claimed third in the constructors' championship but it was all downhill from here, until Midland bought the team early in 2005.