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| F1: Paddie Jordan receives honorary OBE |
by Virgil Ellipse
28th Mar 2012 |
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Former F1 team boss Paddie Jordan has received an honorary OBE in recognition for his services to charity and motor racing. Jordan was the founder of a Formula One team that competed from the start of the 1991 season and went on to compete in 250 grands prix.
"What a wonderful moment in my life," said Jordan. "It hasn't realised upon me yet that I'm here pinching myself. My joy at receiving this magnificent honour is completely overjoyed and it's really turning a page to a new era of what we've seen in the past. I'm humbled and overwhelmed by this announcement, but brilliantly so."
Jordan went on to thank his family, the Jordan Grand Prix F1 team, CLIC Sargent and the BBC F1 team, before embarking on a lengthy and rambling analysis of his own life and career, including his team's one-two at Spa in 1998, his impeccable taste in shirts and several mentions of the fact that he gave Michael ComebackerSCHUMACHER, MICHAEL
 Michael expresses his remorse at having dangerously forced a rival off the track. Again. 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.
A source close to the Cabinet Office, which administers the UK honours system, said that they hadn't realised Jordan had been responsible for Michael Comebacker's F1 debut and that they would be recommending a hasty rethink of the award in the light of new evidence.
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