| Andrew Jordan | |
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 Andrew Jordan | |
| Nationality |  British |
| Born | (1989-05-24)24 May 1989 (age 36) Sutton Coldfield (England) |
| Related to | Mike Jordan (father) |
| British Touring Car Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2008 |
| Current team | TOCA /Cosworth /M-Sport |
| Car number | 77 |
| Former teams | Eurotech Racing Triple Eight Racing Motorbase Performance BMW Pirtek Racing |
| Starts | 358 |
| Championships | 1 (2013) |
| Wins | 26 |
| Podiums | 72 |
| Poles | 7 |
| Fastest laps | 20 |
| FIA World Rallycross Championship | |
| Years active | 2014–2018 |
| Former teams | MJP Racing Team Austria EKS RX Team Peugeot-Hansen Olsbergs MSE |
| Starts | 5 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 1 |
| Best finish | 19th in2017 |
| Previous series | |
| 2011 2007 2006 2005 | British GT Championship Renault Clio Cup UK SEAT Cupra Championship Ginetta Championship |
| Championship titles | |
| 2013 2012–13,16 2005 | BTCC BTCC Independents' Trophy Ginetta Winter Series |
| Awards | |
| 2013 | Autosport National Driver of the Year |
Andrew Phillip Jordan (born 24 May 1989 inSutton Coldfield) is a Britishracing driver, who has driven in theBritish Touring Car Championship. He was the2013 British Touring Car Champion.
Jordan first started racing inrallycross. In 2003, he entered theFord Rally Academy, and went on to win the Winter Junior Rallycross Championship. The next year, he was the BTRDA Junior Rallycross Champion, and won the title of best newcomer in the British Junior series. In 2005, he won four different titles, the Junior Rallycross title, the BTRDA Rallycross title, as well as the Super Series Junior and the Ginetta Winterseries titles. In 2006, Jordan was the youngest ever driver and race winner in the British Rallycross Supercar class, in a Team EurotechFord Focus. The protégé of 1992European Rallycross ChampionWill Gollop made it to runner-up in the 2007 British Rallycross Championship, claiming three wins.
Jordan made a one-off return to rallycross in 2014 when he competed with a Ford Fiesta ST Supercar ofOlsbergs MSE in the second round of theFIA World Rallycross Championship atLydden Hill, finishing in third place.[1] In 2015, he participated in two more World RX rounds; in Great Britain, he raced a Peugeot 208 Supercar forTeam Peugeot-Hansen, and in Italy, an Audi S1 Supercar forEKS RX.
After driving some races in the 2006SEAT Cupra Championship, he raced in the 2007Renault Clio Cup, which supports the British Touring Car Championship. Driving for his father's team, he finished twelfth in the championship with a best result of second, coming in the opening round atBrands Hatch.
In 2008, it was announced that he would join his fatherMike Jordan (himself an experienced touring car and sportscar driver) as part of a two car Team Eurotech in the British Touring Car Championship. This was the first time a father and son would drive together in series history and both drove ex-Team DynamicsHonda Integras. The teenager's first season was a successful one, despite some reliability problems from his ageing but competitive Integra. This included two podiums, atOulton Park andKnockhill. He finished the season in thirteenth place, one place ahead of his father.
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For 2009, it was announced that he would continue in the BTCC in aVauxhall Vectra for the worksVauxhall team alongsideFabrizio Giovanardi andMatt Neal.[2] Jordan scored his first pole position at the third round of the season atDonington Park, becoming the youngest driver to do so in BTCC history. He held this record untilAlex MacDowall took pole position atSnetterton the following season. Having achieved a best result of second on three occasions, he finished the season 10th in the drivers standings behind his teammates. Vauxhall withdrew from the BTCC as a works team at the end of the season.
In 2010, Jordan rejoined his family-run team now under thePirtek Racing banner, running a Vectra with a turbo engine prepared by TOCA to the NGTC regulations which would power all the cars from 2011 onwards.[3] He scored his first series win in the third race of round five atCroft, having started from pole due to the reverse grid system.[4] AtSnetterton, Jordan was hampered by an engine failure which prevented him from starting the final race of the weekend.[5] He took a second win in the final race of the season atBrands Hatch, again a reversed grid race.
In 2011, Pirtek Racing expanded to two cars to run Jordan andJeff Smith[6] Jordan only scored points in one race at Brands Hatch but he followed this with a string of five consecutive podiums, including a race win atDonington Park. Results were average for the rest of the season apart from two further podiums. He finished 6th in the Drivers Championship and 3rd in the Independents' Trophy.
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In 2012, Pirtek Racing ran twoTeam Dynamics preparedNGTCHonda Civics.[7] Jordan took pole position for the third round of the championship atThruxton but retired at the start of the first race having spun out at the first corner in the wet conditions.
Jordan stayed with the team in2013.[8] He took pole position for the opening round of the season at Brands Hatch after deteriorating track conditions due to a snow shower prevented drivers from improving their times.[9] He finished second in the first race behindJason Plato having collided with theMG driver at the final corner while attempting to take the lead of the race.[10] Jordan won the 2013 BTCC at the final round at Brands Hatch GP circuit on 13 October 2013.
In what turned out to be his final season for Pirtek Racing, Jordan won 4 races, including the first 2 races of the season atBrands Hatch, getting 2 pole positions and 4 fastest race laps on the way. He also set the fastest ever BTCC lap around Thruxton in qualifying, finishing the lap in 1 minute 16.192 seconds, averaging 111.31 mph. He finished 5th in the championship with 310 points, only 6 less than 4th-placedMat Jackson. His championship challenge was effectively ended after a desperately poor weekend atSnetterton, finishing 16th and 15th, and not even starting the 3rd race of the weekend. His poor run briefly continued at Knockhill, where he retired from the first race, but recovered to finish 11th and 5th in the other 2 races of the weekend. He also finished 3rd in the competition for the Independent's Trophy, only 88 points behind the winnerColin Turkington, and 10th in theJack Sears Trophy, 40 points off eventual winnerDave Newsham.
In 2014, he also briefly entered into theFIA World Rallycross Championship, competing in the British round of the series.
Jordan left Eurotech after the 2014 season to join the works MG team, run byTriple Eight Racing, maintaining his Pirtek sponsorship. He had previously driven for the team in 2009 when they ran the Vauxhall BTCC factory programme. It was to be a lean year however with only 5 podiums to his name. This meant he finished 5th in the standings.
In October 2015, Jordan announced he would be moving to Motorbase for the 2016 season driving their Ford Focus ST, again taking his Pirtek sponsorship with him. He took his first win in 16 months at Thruxton and won again at Silverstone. He ranked 8th at the end of the year also winning the independents championship for a third time.
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In November 2016, Jordan joined the works BMW team, run byWest Surrey Racing, on a two-year deal driving the 125i M Sport, once more taking his Pirtek sponsorship.
In 2011, Jordan contested a one-off race meeting for Team-LNT in the opening round of theBritish GT Championship season atOulton Park, driving aGinetta G55 GT3.[11] He finished 15th in class in the first race and retired from the second race.
Jordan was also entered for theShannons Supercar Showdown television program in Australia, created byV8 Supercars teamKelly Racing with the aim to get one of ten drivers onto the grid of the2011 Bathurst 1000 alongsideGrant Denyer. Jordan finished runner-up to local Formula Ford driverCam Waters.
At the final round of the 2017Pickup Truck Racing Championship, Jordan made a one-off appearance. An impressive performance saw Andrew take the victory in the second race of the day.[12]
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded in first race) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races) (* signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap – 1 point given all races)
‡ Hybrid Test Entry – not eligible for points
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position in class) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap in class)
| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | DC | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Century Motorsport | Ginetta G55 | GT3 | OUL 1 17 | OUL 2 Ret | SNE 1 | BRH 1 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | ROC 1 | ROC 2 | DON 1 | 31st | 0 | |
| Rollcentre Racing | SIL 1 Ret | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ERX | Points | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Olsbergs MSE | Ford Fiesta ST | GBR 4 | NOR | BEL | GER | ITA | 19th | 13 | [15] |
| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | WRX | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Olsbergs MSE | Ford Fiesta ST | POR | GBR 3 | NOR | FIN | SWE | BEL | CAN | FRA | GER | ITA | TUR | ARG | 25th | 17 | ||
| 2015 | Team Peugeot-Hansen | Peugeot 208 WRX | POR | HOC | BEL | GBR 7 | GER | SWE | CAN | NOR | FRA | BAR | TUR | 24th | 13 | |||
| EKS RX | Audi S1 | ITA 21 | ARG | |||||||||||||||
| 2017 | MJP Racing Team Austria | Ford Fiesta | BAR | POR | HOC | BEL | GBR 8 | NOR | SWE | CAN | FRA | LAT | GER | RSA | 19th | 11 | ||
| 2018 | MJP Racing Team Austria | Ford Fiesta | BAR | POR | BEL | GBR 20 | NOR | SWE | CAN | FRA 15 | LAT | USA | GER | RSA | 23rd | 2 | ||
Source:[13] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded by | British Touring Car Championship Champion 2013 | Succeeded by |
| Awards and achievements | ||
| Preceded by | Autosport Awards National Driver of the Year 2013 | Succeeded by |