The only father-and-son team in BTCC history, Mike and Andrew Jordan now build, test and race historics. We explore their Life & Cars -
, knowing that the 16-valve version was coming.’ But it never came, and the 309 was no match for John Cleland’s Astra 16V.
‘So I met Mr Guest, a proper gent, and he liked the sound of it. Eurocars wasn’t quite the image but I said do a year and if you like it we’ll dos. And they did. Two years in Tuscans was followed by British GTs, winning the championship in a Lister Storm in 2001. We did three more years in GTs but it was getting a bit samey. I said, well, we could do the BTCC but I don’t think you’d want to spend the money. They said: “Oh, we might.”’.
Mike got a dispensation for the then 16-year-old Andrew to step up to the senior class, not revealing that he’d be driving Will Gollop’s 550bhp Focus Supercar! ‘First day I drove it I thought “What am I doing?’’ says Andrew. ‘It was so fast!’. But he had a couple of wins in his first year and in the second won the championship. If there’d have been a career in Rallycross, and an audience for the sponsors, he’d have stayed. ‘I loved it,’ he says.
‘What should have been a highlight year for me was a bit of a let-down,’ says Mike, reflecting on 2008. ‘We were a very small team and I was running the team, driving the truck, organising hospitality and trying to coach Andrew. It was a bit of a nightmare.’. They’d literally just signed the deal with Triple Eight Racing when they got a call from John Guest to say that due to the recession they wouldn’t be able to sponsor Andrew. It had always been on a handshake.
In 2012 they switched to the Civic, bagging one win but never feeling they were a match for Shedden and Neal in the works cars. But 2013 was different. ‘Everything just clicked,’ says Andrew. ‘I put it on pole for the first round and, although it sounds cocky, we expected to. Adam was probably as obsessed with winning as I was. We were the ones to beat. It was really good fun.
Secretly, he’d decided that if he won in 2019 he’d ‘do a Rosberg’ and retire live on ITV4. He still wishes he’d called it a day anyhow because things unravelled after that. ‘That’s my only regret. I knew it was looking rocky for 2020.’ Then Covid added to the uncertainty and sponsorship budgets shrank. WSR and BMW were keen to keep Andrew but it would have meant him taking some financial risk.
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