Rogue Profile of Eddie Irvine

Overview

Name	Eddie Irvine
Country	United Kingdom
Active	1993 – 2002
Races	148
Wins	4
Poles	0
Championships	0
Fastest Laps	1

Rogue Points	129
All time ranking	14
Rogue Race Wins	4 wins 1996 – Australian Grand Prix 1994 – Brazilian Grand Prix 1994 – Italian Grand Prix 1993 – Japanese Grand Prix
Rogue Championship Wins	0 wins

Rogue data for Eddie Irvine

Who?	Points	Action
1996 – Australian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	5 pts	Irvine out qualified his team mate, Michael Schumacher. This in it’s self is not a “rogue” offence but Eddie Jordan, (Irvine’s old team manger) had made a bet with Schumacher’s old team manager, Flavio Briatore that Irvine would be able to out qualify Schumacher. Irvine was reported as saying “Bloody Jordan. I am not driving for him any more and he is still making money out of me!”
1996 – Brazilian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	On the very first lap of the meeting, on the Friday morning Irvine lost control of his car on a bump as he exited the pit-lane. He very nearly ripped the two right hand wheels off the side of his car in this incident.
1996 – Monaco Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	After an altercation with Panis, Irvine had thought he would be out of the race and undid his seat belts. He was given a push start by the marshals and he had to pit to have his seat belts done up. Unfortunately for Irvine he stalled making his getaway from the stop, loosing him even more time.
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	Hakkinen, Salo and Irvine all collided with each other resulting in all three’s retirement, their cars locked together on the track. The less than superb Marshalling was partly to blame: more yellow flags were needed.
1996 – Spanish Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	4 pts	Irvine spun on lap 2 and got stuck on the wet grass and was forced into retirement.
1996 – Italian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	Irvine was out of the race on lap twenty four after he damaged his suspension on the tyre stacks.
1995 – Argentinian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	Irvine clipped the left rear tyre of Hakkinen’s MP4/10 at the restart of the Grand Prix. The endplate of Irvine’s front wing slashed the McLaren’s tyre open and the Finn was flung into the gravel trap and retirement. Irvine pitted for a new nose box before he retired on lap seven with an engine failure. Hakkinen was livid; “I had a good fight with Schumacher in turn one at the first start. It was good professional racing; we were close but did not touch each other. I accelerated out of the corner in third place then the red flag came out. The second start was very similar, I was heading for third position again into the first corner when I felt Irvine touch my rear tyre. It exploded immediately and I was off.” Irvine did not agree, claiming that Hakkinen had tried to squeeze him out. Eyewitness reports (thanks Gustavo) suggest that Irvine had been the more innocent party in the incident, a victim of Hakkinen’s manoeuvrings.
1995 – San Marino Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	5 pts	When Irvine made his first stop for tyres on lap eight he mistakenly pulled into the Ligier pit box rather than the Jordan pit-box. Perhaps it was only Irvine and the other members of the Jordan team who were not amused by the Ulsterman’s error.
1995 – Monaco Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	Irvine crashed heavily in the dying moments of Saturday qualifying, on a lap half a second faster than was his current fastest time. He ripped two wheels off his Jordan and the waved yellow flag ensured that Hakkinen was not able to improve his time too.
1995 – British Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	4 pts	Irvine had an overheating clutch on the grid. It was slipping badly, and as a result Irvine was very slow off the grid, dropping to thirteenth from seventh. On lap two he tried a move to overtake Panis’s Ligier under braking for Abbey. Irvine spun his car and the engine cut out to a problem with a crank sensor. “I ended up in the same place as I did in last year’s race.” Reflected Irvine.
1995 – Belgian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	Irvine tapped the back of Coulthard’s Williams in the run down to La Source after the start. This fractured the oil line to the gearbox, allowing oil to leak from the gearbox. This would cause the Williams’s gearbox to overheat and fail on lap fourteen.
1995 – European Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	4 pts	Irvine spun his Jordan as he came up to lap Max Papis. Irvine kept the engine running and he continued to finish in fifth place.
1995 – Pacific Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	Alesi was overtaking Irvine for third place when Hill decided to follow Alesi through. Irvine chopped across the English man his Jordan making heavy contact with Hill’s left front aerofoil and wheel. Hill’s front wing was damaged in the incident but he soldiered on, as the handling of his Williams had not been affected that much.
1994 – Brazilian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	5 pts	On lap thirty-five Irvine triggered a crash that would see four cars eliminated. As Martin Brundle commenced his thirty-fifth lap he had already been nursing the car due to a rear shock absorber fault when his McLaren developed a strong vibration in the transmission. He had just lapped Eric Bernard and decided that he would let him past and then go into the pit. As Brundle approached the left-hand corner he slowed to let Bernard through. Bernard moved to the left just as Eddie Irvine took a dive up the inside of Bernard’s Ligier. To top it all off Jos Verstappen was trying to get his Benetton inside the Jordan. Irvine’s lurch to the left made Verstappen swerve onto the grass. The Benetton snapped back across the track, collecting the Jordan of Irvine and Bernard’s Ligier before it rolled over on to Brundle’s McLaren, the Benetton’s rear wheel hit Brundle with sufficient force to crack the Englishman’s helmet. All four were out on the spot and walked away from the incident but Brundle sustained whiplash injuries in the accident. Eddie Irvine received a one-race ban and a $10,000 fine for this; He appealed, and the ban was extended to three races, but this was partly due to politicking as Jordan had protested over the legality of Michael Schumacher’s winning Benetton.
1994 – Spanish Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	On returning to formula One after his three-race ban, Irvine almost lost a points scoring place. Whilst running in fourth place he clipped the temporary tyre chicane and he needed to make an unscheduled pit stop in order to have his nose box replaced. He eventually finished sixth, the last point scoring position.
1994 – Canadian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	4 pts	Irvine spun off the track and into retirement on lap forty-one. He did this in the ess bend that leads on to the start finish straight. He lost control and span into the concrete retaining wall as he tried to lap Zanardi’s Lotus. “I was pushing too hard to get a run on him on the straight and I guess I must have been too close as I lost down force, because suddenly the backend was gone.”
1994 – Hungarian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	Going into the first turn of the race Katayama attempted to run around the outside of Irvine’s Jordan, simultaneously Barrichello made a dive down the inside of his team mate, Irvine. The cars were three abreast into the first corner and a collision was inevitable. All three cars could have finished in the points but as they collected each other and slid into the gravel trap their race was run, there and then.
1994 – Italian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	Irvine had all his times form Friday Qualifying disallowed as he had exceed the maximum number of laps allowed, twelve.
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	5 pts	Irvine took Herbert out of the race at the first corner of the first start. Herbert had qualified in a season high fourth place, with a new Mugen engine in the Lotus, which transformed its lacklustre performance due to more power and a lower centre of gravity that transformed the cars handling. Irvine’s speed was judged to be excessive on approach to the corner and he locked his brakes trying to dive down the inside of Herbert. Olivier Panis and David Coulthard were caught up in the melee too, and were eliminated also. The race was immediately red flagged and Herbert started in the spare Lotus without the new, better performing, engine. Irvine received a one race suspended ban for three races for causing an avoidable accident. Herbert was extremely angry to say the least: “Irvine has done far too much damage this year and should finally properly be penalised. F1 does not need drivers like this – one day there may be serious harm.”
1994 – Portuguese Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	In Friday Qualifying Eddie Irvine span on the straight approaching the new chicane in front of the fast approaching Damon Hill. Irvine seemed to spin off the track and then back on, Hill tried to slip past but his Williams’s rear wheel hit the spinning Jordan’s left rear wheel. This pitched Hill’s FW16 into a barrel role into the gravel trap. Hill was philosophical. “What can you do? Eddie lost control. He didn’t do it deliberately. I could see him coming back across the track but there was nothing I could do. It was the first time I had ever been upside down in a racing car. It may have looked pretty tame on television but there is still 500kg of racing car on top of you in such a situation.” Irvine did see the comedy in the situation “It’s typical isn’t it! I spun once and the guy who is trying to get the championship comes through and collects me. The luck of the Irish has never come my way.”
1994 – Australian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	4 pts	Irvine finished the season with a low note, much like he begun. On lap sixteen he spun off the track and into retirement.
1993 – Japanese Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	3 pts	In his first Formula One race Irvine incurred the wraith of Senna. He was very reluctant to be lapped as was he duelled with Damon Hill for sixth place on lap thirty-three. Irvine was all over the track and sometimes off it, kicking up dirt into Senna’s face as he tried to lap the Ulsterman. When Senna got past Irvine he was baulked by Hill and Irvine re-passed Senna. Senna was furious with Both Hill and Irvine. “I think it was very unprofessional of Irvine,” said Senna “I think he is a great idiot and he wants to learn about how to become a professional racing driver. I don’t think I need to speak to him because it is so obvious. He has no idea how to fight and respect a competitor.”
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	3 pts	Toward the end of the race Senna had slowed to conserve his car and Irvine cheekily un-lapped himself much to Senna’s anger.
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	Irvine claimed sixth place in the race by pushing Derek Warwick’s Footwork off the track at the CASIO chicane. “He braked too early and I had no where to go!” Was Irvine’s excuse.
1993 – Australian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	At the first re-start Irvine parked his Jordan “slightly askew” across his grid position. This was enough for the race organisers to abort the start for a second time.
Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)	1 pts	On lap eleven Irvine locked his brakes going into a tight left hander. He slid into the tyre barrier, damaging his suspension. He was able to extract the Jordan from the barrier and drag it around to the pits but the damage that it had sustained was terminal and he retired from the race.
1998 – Argentinian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	On lap fifty-nine Wurz was pushing Irvine had and Irvine chopped across the Austrian, the two cars making heavy contact. Both continued with Wurz eventually getting past the Ulsterman.
1998 – Monaco Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	Irvine crashed his race chassis heavily at the approach to Rascasse in qualifying. He dashed back to the pits to take Schumacher’s race car, in which he then qualified seventh.
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	On lap ten Irvine attempted a move on Frentzen at Lowes hairpin. The move was not really on and Irvine tapped the FW20 into a spin into the guardrails. Frentzen was out on the spot, his FW20’s front right suspension smashed. Irvine continued. “After the first few laps I could close on him and I had seen that he was weakest at the hairpin,” stated Irvine. “I picked my moment and went down the inside. We made contact but I was able to keep going. I was worried that my car was damaged as we hit quite hard but after the next couple of corners I realised everything was all right.” Frentzen was obviously livid.
1998 – British Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	4 pts	Irvine lost precious set-up time when he had to abandon his race car on the track after he span off the track in the Saturday morning practice session.
1998 – Belgian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	4 pts	On lap twenty five Irvine’s race came to a premature end when he spun off the track and out of t he race.
1999 – Canadian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	In his efforts to get past Herbert, Irvine engaged Herbert in a game of chicken to see who would brake the latest. At the corner at the end of the fastest part of the track it is no surprise to find out that both Irvine and Herbert (due to Eddie being in the way of the corner) had to take a short cut across the track in order to stay pointing in the right direction. Herbert thought that Irvine was using unfair tactics in the lap fifty-three incident. “I kept him at bay for a few laps, but when we came to the chicane I thought he was too far back to make a move,” commented Herbert. “When he finally went down the inside he was going too quickly to make the chicane. I had to steer away to avoid him wand we both went through the grass. It was a good battle while it lasted.”
1999 – French Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	4 pts	Irvine has three spins during the Saturday’s wet qualifying session.
1999 – British Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	5 pts	At his first pit stop Irvine overshot his pit box. This increased the time of the pit stop to just over twelve seconds. This delay cost Irvine his position to Coulthard and the eventual race win. “It was the first time I came into the pit were the McLaren guys were waiting for their driver. Once I got past them I suddenly realised how close my guys were to them and it was pretty obvious I wasn’t going to get stopped in time to get into my pit in the right position. I just over shot, which is why they weren’t immediately able to get the fuel nozzle on the nozzle. Ultimately, that mistake cost us the race.”
1999 – German Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	Irvine slid of the track on his first run in qualifying as he entered the stadium section. He then made a set-up change in the wrong direction and there was not time enough to change back.
1999 – Hungarian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	With a badly handling car suffering from under steer Irvine, who was trying to hold off Coulthard, slid off the track with fourteen laps left to run. Eddie rejoined the track having lost four seconds and his position to Coulthard. “I managed to keep ahead of DC at our second refuelling stop when we came in after which I pushed like mad because I did not want him on my tail for the last twenty or so laps. The tyres felt good for two or three laps but then they went off in a big way. I was struggling with the front and rear of the car. It was jumping around too much and we were only hanging on by the skin of our teeth.”
1999 – European Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	4 pts	Irvine ended up qualifying in ninth position after an ill-timed spin after when he locked his F399’s rear brakes. This seriously hampered his progress. He expressed disappointment as he believed the car had the potential to be on the front row.
1999 – Malaysian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	4 pts	Irvine qualified second for the first Malaysian Grand prix even though he wasted one of his runs with a spin. His team mate Schumacher was on pole, just under a second faster.
1999 – Japanese Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie (Ferrari)	1 pts	In qualifying Irvine ended up in fifth place. He did not help matters with a heavy crash under braking for the spoon curve. He was in fourth at the time and was unable to improve and Frentzen jumped over him, forcing him back down to fifth. Irvine remarked “Having being passed by Frentzen has cost me ten percent of my potential to become World Champion.”
2002 – Malaysian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie	5 pts	Issuing threats to jaguar about the car?s performance and his future at the team. Before the 2002 Malaysian Grand Prix Irvine stated that he would leave the team if improvements aren’t made this season. He also hinted he may leave Formula One altogether if he can’t find a competitive drive somewhere else as he would rather be competitive somewhere else than driving at the back of the field. It looks like his time in Formula one is coming to an end. “I have got to perform and if I don’t perform I don’t want to stay,” said Irvine. “I don’t want to drive at the back of the field and make a few million dollars. I believe whatever will be will be and I will turn my hand to something else. But competition is what I enjoy, so achieving that in whatever walk of life is not going to be an issue. It’s not fun getting blown away. The only fun is to race. Last year I had so much fun in the races because we screwed up in qualifying then I had a good car for the race and it was fantastic. This year Australia was not fun even though I got three points. It was embarrassing. I would not want to continue here if it’s like this but the good thing is I don’t think it will.”
Irvine, Eddie	1 pts	Gesticulating at Yoong, after the Malaysian rammed him off. After been taken out of the race by backmarker, Alex Yoong, Irvine gave the Malaysian driver a less than cheery wave.
2002 – San Marino Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie	3 pts	Blocking Barrichello while being lapped and then arguing with him in the press. Irvine was not having a good weekend at the 2002 San Marino Grand prix. His Jaguar was well off the pace and by lap twenty-seven he was being lapped by the leaders. Ralf Schumacher and Barrichello were embroiled in a hard battle for second place as they came upon Irvine. The Ulsterman let Ralf by almost immediately but them chopped across Barrichello and held him behind for a few corners. Given that Barrichello was having such a torrid time at Ferrari in comparison to Michael Schumacher and that it was once Irvine who partnered Schumacher at Marenello many believed Irvine to be having some sort of tantrum. Barrichello hit out at Irvine after the race, calling the Ulsterman “old.” Irvine reposted with a scandalous attack on Barrichello. Irvine told the Sun Newspaper: “I might be older than Rubens but I’ll never be as ugly. He is just being over-emotional as usual. I had already let Ralf by and I looked in the mirror and saw Rubens coming and was quite prepared to do the same for him. I always race fairly and had nothing to gain in holding him up. But he didn’t take the initiative. He should learn to count because it was only two corners later that I let him by.”
2002 – Austrian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie	1 pts	Knocking his Jaguar?s nose cone off on Bernoldi?s Arrows in qualifying. Irvine qualified for the 2002 Austrian grand Prix in a lowly 20th place. He was not aided in the session when he lost the front wing off his car, brushing the back of Bernoldi’s Arrows. “As I was approaching turn three, I darted towards the inside of Bernoldi and for some inexplicable reason, he turned right into me and took the front end of my car with him! Nonetheless, it would not have made a big difference to my qualifying position and there’s subsequently little point in making a big issue of it,” explained Irvine.
2002 – British Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie	5 pts	Irvine calling Schumacher?s crash at the 1999 British Grand prix the ?happiest moment of my life.? Eddie Irvine sparked controversy before the start of the 2002 British grand prix when he admitted that when his Ferrari teammate, Michael Schumacher broke his leg in the crash at the 1999 British Grand Prix, it was the happiest moment of his life! Irvine went on to claim that any other driver would have reacted in the same manner. “Michael Schumacher claims the Silverstone crash which broke his leg still haunts him… for me it was the happiest moment of my career,” he told the Sun. “Once the team had told me he was okay I remember sitting in the car trying to contain my joy at his misfortune because it meant I would be able to challenge for the world crown (he went on to finish runner-up to Mika Hakkinen).” Irvine, then went on to claim that Schumacher had only himself to blame for the crash…. “There’s little doubt that had Michael not had his crash he would have won the title that year – but he only has himself to blame. Everybody thinks that brake failure was responsible for the incident but I would like to put the record straight and record how the scenario really unfolded. I was really energised for the race because the car was doing great but I was also really hacked off with Michael.” “He had been quoted as saying that I had only helped him a couple of times when the truth was that I had moved over for him several times without the team even asking me. I felt his comments were ungracious so when I flew past him at the start I decided to brake so late going into the corner that there would be no way he could come by me without sliding wide. He braked, locked up, came off the brakes and then tried to sweep by me.” “But then he had to brake again when he realised he wasn’t going to make it and that’s when a nipple in the brakes snapped and sent him straight into the tyre wall.” However Irvine said his attitude was no different to those of the other drivers on the circuit if they had had a shot at the title should their senior teammate have suffered an accident. “Before anyone accuses me of being callous let’s put something straight. There is not a driver in the pit lane who wouldn’t rejoice at someone else’s grief if it was going to benefit them. Formula One racers are all totally selfish because if they didn’t think me, me, me they would just be trodden into the ground. I have always said that Formula One is a war and it really is.”
Irvine, Eddie	4 pts	Off-track excursion on lap nineteen. On lap nineteen, Irvine, Heidfeld and Fisichella were engaged in a battle for fourteenth place. Irvine was forced to surrender from the fight when he fell back after he lost control of his R3b and slid over the grass.
Irvine, Eddie	1 pts	Crash out of the race on lap twenty-four, 2 points for style and 3 for speed. Irvine’s race ended on lap twenty-four when he put his Jaguar’s right hand side tyres on to the white lines that demarcated the track edges. The loss of traction sent the Ulsterman torpedoing into the tyre barrier, terminally damaging his R3b’s suspension. “I am disappointed to have retired from our home race, but the conditions were very tricky out there today. I made a good start and it was actually great fun until I retired. The British fans were not exactly short of overtaking manoeuvres today and having passed five cars by lap one, I was caught in the middle of a procession of cars and it was quite good to be jostling around with everyone being so bunched up,” the Irishman explained. “The rain, however, got worse and after about fourteen laps we had no choice but to pit and take the full wet tyre option. The grip level on the track was far from ideal and on lap 23 I lost grip coming out of Stowe. The car spun completely off the track and buried itself in the gravel trap. Not the way to leave your mark on your home race, but with only eleven cars finishing the race today, it isn’t hard to appreciate the challenges that everyone was faced with today. Some got lucky, some didn’t!”
2002 – Hungarian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie	4 pts	Spin in FFP2. Irvine was one of a number of drivers to spin in the deteriorating conditions in Friday’s second practice session. Like Ralf he spun at turn eleven.
2002 – Belgian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie	4 pts	Across the grass in SFP1. Irvine had been running well all in the early part of Saturday Free Practice One. Coming to the end of the session he had slipped down to sixteenth but was destined to stay in that position. On his final run he ran off the track at Pouhon, destroying his final quick lap.
2002 – Italian Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie	4 pts	Off the track twice in FFP1. In Friday’s first practice session, Jaguar’s Eddie Irvine was pushing very hard and popped up in fourth position at the end of the session. On the next lap he left the track at both the Variante Ascari and the Variante della Roggia in his efforts to find the perfect brake set-up.
2002 – United States Grand Prix
Misc
Irvine, Eddie	4 pts	Across the grass in qualifying Jaguar’s Eddie Irvine went off the track at turn one in qualifying and had to cut across the grass in order to make his way back onto the circuit.