Twelve years a growing: Jordan's Formula One record

MOTOR RACING: A look at how the Jordan team has performed since it first appeared on the Formula One scene in 1991.

MOTOR RACING: A look at how the Jordan team has performed since it first appeared on the Formula One scene in 1991.

2002: JORDAN HONDA

Constructors' Championship: 6th (9 pts).

Drivers and championship positions: Giancarlo Fisichella (11th - 7 pts), Takuma Sato (15th - 2 pts).

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Highlight: Takuma Sato's superb, battling fifth place at Suzuka to earn the team sixth place in the Constructors' championship.

Lowlight: Sato taking out his own team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella soon after the start of the Malaysian Grand Prix.

2001: JORDAN HONDA

Constructors' Championship: 5th (19 pts).

Drivers and positions: Heinz-Harald Frentzen (12th - 6 pts), Jarno Trulli (7th - 8pts), Jean Alesi (14th - 5 pts, 3 for Prost), Ricardo Zonta (0).

Highlight: In retrospect Frentzen's solid start to the season (5th, 4th, DNF, 5th). After those results it was all downhill therafter.

Lowlight: The unceremonious sacking of Frentzen in the wake of a dismal performance at the British Grand Prix. The nine non-finishes and one no-qualification recorded by Jarno Trulli, leaving him with just six finishes and eight points.

2000: JORDAN HONDA

Constructors' Championship: 6th (17pts).

Drivers and positions: Heinz-Harald Frentzen (9th - 11pts), Jarno Trulli (10th - 6pts).

Highlight: Frentzen's third-placed, podium finish at the inaugural GP at the new Indianapolis F1 circuit - it was the team's first since Brazil five months earlier. The securing of works Honda engines for 2001 and onwards.

Lowlight: Finishing sixth in the constructors' championship after vowing to challenge for the constructors' title after 1999's efforts.

1999: JORDAN MUGEN HONDA

Constructors' Championship: 3rd (61pts).

Drivers and positions: Heinz-Harald Frentzen (3rd - 55pts), Damon Hill (12th - 7pts).

Highlight: Finishing behind Ferrari and McLaren in the constructors' title. Frentzen picking up two stunning wins at Magny Cours and Monza and, in the latter stages of the season, almost becoming a title contender.

Lowlights: Both Frentzen and Hill retiring with technical problems at the rain-sodden European Grand Prix when in potentially very profitable positions. Frentzen's failure dropped him out of the title race, with two races to go. Another downer was Hill's see-sawing form as he careered towards a retirement announcement in Canada.

1998: JORDAN MUGEN HONDA

Constructors' Championship: 5th (34 pts).

Drivers and positions: Damon Hill (6th - 20 pts), Ralf Schumacher (10th - 14 pts).

Highlights: The Belgian Grand Prix, August 30th. In the pouring rain, Hill and Ralf Schumacher come home first and second to take an amazing first win and one-two for Jordan.

Lowlight: Monaco, three months earlier. In front of the team's major sponsors, the cars barely made it round to qualify.

1997: JORDAN PEUGEOT

Constructors' Championship: 5th (33 pts).

Drivers and positions: Giancarlo Fisichella (8th - 20 pts), Ralf Schumacher (11th - 13 pts).

Highlight: Fisichella's storming third place in Canada, a track he specialises in. Fisi's front row at Hockenheim, only for the heartbreak of a puncture a few laps from a second place.

Lowlight: Fisichella and Schumacher crashing into each other at the Argentinian Grand Prix.

1996: JORDAN PEUGEOT

Constructors' Championship: 5th (22 pts).

Drivers and positions: Rubens Barrichello (8th - 14 pts), Martin Brundle (11th - 8 pts).

Highlight: Barrichello on the front row with Damon Hill's Williams in the Brazilian's home grand prix in Sao Paulo.

Lowlight: Brundle's massive smash at the first corner in the opening round of the championship in Brazil.

1995: JORDAN PEUGEOT

Constructors' Championship: 6th (18 pts).

Drivers and positions: Rubens Barrichello (11th - 11 pts), Eddie Irvine (12th - 7 pts).

Highlight: The Canadian Grand Prix double podium, with Barrichello second and Irvine third.

Lowlight: The amount of Peugeot engines the team got through during a tough season.

1994: JORDAN HART

Constructors' Championship: 5th (29 pts).

Drivers and positions: Aguri Suzuki, Andrea de Cesaris (18th - 4 pts), Eddie Irvine (14th - 6 pts), Rubens Barrichello (6th - 19 pts).

Highlights: Barrichello's brilliant pole and securing the team's first podium finish at Aida in the Pacific Grand Prix.

Lowlight: No spectacular lows in a season in which Jordan were treading water.

1993: JORDAN HART

Constructors' Championship: 10th (3 pts).

Drivers and positions: Rubens Barrichello (17th - 2 pts), Ivan Capelli, Thierry Boutsen, Marco Apicella, Emanuele Naspetti, Eddie Irvine (20th - 1 pt).

Highlights: Just one, at the final race of the season, Barrichello and Irvine in their debuts scoring points at Suzuka, Barrichello finishing fifth and Irvine sixth. Irvine memorably got smacked in the nose by Ayrton Senna, too, for having the temerity to un-lap himself.

Lowlights: A disastrous year, characterised by multiple driver changes, which also saw Barrichello retire with fuel pressure problems six laps from home after a fabulous drive at the deluge-hit European GP when he was on for a remarkable points finish.

1992: JORDAN YAMAHA

Constructors' Championship: 11th (1 pt).

Drivers and positions: Stefano Modena (1pt), Mauricio Gugelmin.

Highlights: Modena scores the team's sole point in the final race of the season at Adelaide, ensuring the team holds on to its travel money for the sport's rights holder for 1993.

Lowlights: Yamaha - just Yamaha.

1991: JORDAN FORD

Constructors' Championship: 5th (21 pts).

Drivers and positions: Andrea de Cesaris (9th - 9 pts), Bertrand Gachot (12th - 4 pts), Roberto Moreno (10th - 8 pts), Michael Schumacher (12th - 4 pts, scored with Benetton Ford), Alessandro Zanardi.

Highlights: Double points finish in Canada with De Cesaris fourth and Gachot fifth. Beating out the likes of Tyrrell, Dallara, Minardi, Brabham and Lola in the team's first season.

Lowlight: Michael Schumacher being poached by Flavio Briatore of Benetton, after the German has made a remarkable debut in Spa qualifying.