Andrew Jordan

Andrew Jordan
Nationality	British
Born	(1989-05-23) May 23, 1989 (age 22) Sutton Coldfield (England)
2012 British Touring Car Championship
Debut season	2008
Current team	Pirtek Racing
Car no.	77
Former teams	Team Eurotech VX Racing
Starts	127
Wins	3
Poles	2
Fastest laps	1
Best finish	6th in 2011
Previous series
2011 2007 2006 2005	British GT Championship Renault Clio Cup GB SEAT Cupra Championship Ginetta Championship
Championship titles
2005	Ginetta Winter Series

Andrew Jordan (born 24 May 1989 in Sutton Coldfield) is an English auto racing driver, who drives in the British Touring Car Championship.

Racing Career

Rallycross

He first started racing in Rallycross. In 2003 he entered the Ford Rally Academy, and he 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, BTRDA Rallycross, Super Series junior and the Ginetta Winterseries. In 2006 he was the youngest ever driver and race winner in the British Rallycross Supercar class, in a Team Eurotech Ford Focus. He was runner-up in the 2007 British Rallycross, with three wins.

Renault Clio Cup

After driving some races in the 2006 SEAT Cupra Championship, he raced in the 2007 Renault 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 at Brands Hatch.

British Touring Car Championship

Eurotech Racing (2008)

Jordan competing in the fourth event of the 2009 BTCC season at Oulton Park.

In 2008, it was announced that he would join his father Mike 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 Dynamics Honda Integras. The teenager's first season was a successful one, despite some reliability problems from his ageing but competitive Integra. This included two podiums, at Oulton Park and Knockhill. He finished the season in thirteenth place, one place ahead of his father.

VX Racing (2009)

For 2009 it was announced that he would continue in the BTCC in a Vauxhall Vectra for the works Vauxhall team alongside Fabrizio Giovanardi and Matt Neal.^[1] Jordan scored his first pole position at the third round of the season at Donington Park, becoming the youngest driver to do so in BTCC history. He held this record until Alex MacDowall took pole position at Snetterton 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.

Pirtek Racing (2010–)

Jordan driving for Pirtek Racing at Thruxton in the 2012 BTCC season.

In 2010, Jordan rejoined his family-run team now under the Pirtek 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.^[2] He scored his first series win in the third race of round five at Croft, having started from pole due to the reverse grid system.^[3] At Snetterton, Jordan was hampered by an engine failure which prevented him from starting the final race of the weekend.^[4] He took a second win in the final race of the season at Brands Hatch, again a reversed grid race.

In 2011 Pirtek Racing expanded to two cars to run Jordan and Jeff Smith^[5] 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 at Donington 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.

In 2012 Pirtek Racing will run two Team Dynamics prepared NGTC Honda Civics.^[6] Jordan took pole position for the third round of the championship at Thruxton but retired at the start of the first race having spun out at the first corner in the wet conditions.

Other Activities

In 2011, Jordan contested a one off race meeting for Team-LNT in the opening round of the British GT Championship season at Oulton Park, driving a Ginetta G55 GT3.^[7] He finished 15th in class in the first race and retired from the second race.

Racing Record

Complete British Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded in first race) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races) (* signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap – 1 point given all races)

^* Season in progress

References

External links

• Official Site
• BTCC.net Profile
• Profile at BTCCPages.com