Jordan 191

Racing car
Car_name = Jordan 191


Category = Formula One
Constructor = Jordan
Designer = Gary Anderson
Team = Team 7UP Jordan
Drivers = flagicon|BEL Bertrand Gachot
flagicon|GER Michael Schumacher
flagicon|BRA Roberto Moreno
flagicon|ITA Alessandro Zanardi
flagicon|ITA Andrea de Cesaris
Chassis = Carbon-fibre monocoque
Front suspension = Double wishbones, pushrod operated dampers
Rear suspension = Double wishbones, pushrod operated dampers
Engine name = Ford Cosworth HB4
Capacity = 3.494 liter / 213.2 cu in
Configuration = V8 (90°)
Turbo/NA = naturally aspirated
Engine position = Mid-engine
Gearbox name =
Gears = 6-speed
Type = longitudinal manual gearbox
Differential =
Fuel = BP
Tyres = Goodyear Eagle
Debut = 1991 United States Grand Prix
Races = 16
Wins = 0
Cons_champ = 0
Drivers_champ = 0
Poles = 0
Fastest_laps = 1
The Jordan 191 was the first Formula One car built by Jordan Grand Prix and participated in the 1991 Formula One season. Five drivers would take part in the sixteen round championship for the team. Andrea de Cesaris was the only one to drive the full season, despite failing to pre-qualify for the opening round of the championship in Phoenix. It was also de Cesaris that would have the team's best finish of the season, with a fourth place at both Montreal and at Mexico City. Bertrand Gachot would also secure his best finish of his shortened season, with a fifth place - just over 2 seconds behind de Cesaris at the finish. Gachot's season was curtailed by the now infamous spraying of CS gas at a taxi driver in London, which led to a two-month prison sentence. Even when he had been released from prison, Jordan would not return him to a race seat.

Over the final six races, three drivers would fill in for Gachot - Alessandro Zanardi, Roberto Moreno and a 22-year-old German by the name of Michael Schumacher. Schumacher was a revelation in his one and only race weekend for Jordan. At the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix, Schumacher qualified a superb seventh on the grid (Jordan's joint-best ever at that time), outqualifying de Cesaris who was eleventh. However the high wasn't to last, as Schumacher would buzz the clutch within the first mile of the race. There followed a legal wrangle between Benetton and Jordan, with Schumacher signing for Benetton - a team in which he would later win two world championships with - sending Moreno packing from Benetton and Jordan signed him up. He would do two races before handing another debutant, Zanardi his debut in the final three races. A pair of ninths were the best results that any of Gachot's replacements would achieve.In their first season, Jordan would finish an impressive fifth in the championship, scoring 13 points along the way.

Complete Formula One results

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External links

* [http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/688/Jordan-191.html Jordan 191 Specs and info]