Former F1 team boss Eddie Jordan has shared the entire account of the incredible arrangement he made with golfing great Nick Faldo for Michael Schumacher's first test with his squad.
Jordan had made a swift move to line up Schumacher for his F1 debut at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix, in the wake of his regular driver Bertrand Gachot being out of action.
With time short, Jordan only had a single day when both he and Schumacher could test at Silverstone, but they found that the track had already been booked up. "So I jumped in my car, drove over to Silverstone to find none other than six-times [golf] major winner Nick Faldo in his 956 Porsche, which he couldn't insure for the road so he had hired the track for the day.
"If anything had happened I would have been up for manslaughter as this was suicidal, it should never have happened, but he wanted to drive the car at all costs. And he did drive the car. He will probably tell us how well he drove it. But we know different! Anyway, that's Nick and he's an absolute champion."Jordan said Faldo only realised many years later the significance of the moment after he called Jordan up.
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