Irvine made his Formula One debut in the penultimate race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix, partnering Rubens Barrichello at the Jordan Grand Prix team. The team finished ninth overall and came second in the Group C class. Irvine's first race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans was in 1992 driving a SARD Toyota Group C car alongside Roland Ratzenberger and Eje Elgh. In 1991 he raced for Cerumo Racing and won one race and amassed 14 points to finish seventh in the Drivers' Championship. At the end of the season Irvine moved to Japan to compete in that country's Formula 3000 championship. Irvine finished on the podium at both the Macau Grand Prix and the Fuji F3 Cup. He won in Germany and ended the season in third place, beating his teammates Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Emanuele Naspetti. In 1990 he joined the Jordan Formula 3000 team. Irvine finished the season in ninth place, ahead of teammate JJ Lehto in thirteenth, who was then considered to be a promising young driver. In 1989 Irvine competed in the International Formula 3000 Championship with Pacific Racing. He raced at the Macau Grand Prix for the first time and started the race from pole position, but failed to finish. It was a season without any success and Irvine ended it in fifth place.
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Irvine was that driver and joined West Surrey Racing for 1988. In the winter of 1987, Marlboro organised a test in which the fastest driver would be offered a drive for the following British Formula 3 season. In 1987 he joined the Van Diemen team and won the Esso Formula Ford series, the RAC Formula Ford series, and the Formula Ford Festival.
He won his first race at Brands Hatch in 1984, and an award for best driver. Irvine worked unpaid in his father's scrapyard, in return for which, his father funded his racing hobby. He was initially interested in motorcycle racing, but his parents thought the sport too dangerous and was encouraged by his father to race in Formula Ford. Irvine began to compete with racing cars in 1983. His helmet design was based on that of Ayrton Senna. Įddie Irvine at the 1989 Macau Grand Prix. His childhood hero was countryman John Watson. His father also raced in single-seaters for fun. Irvine's first taste of motorsport came when his family spent their holidays attending the British Grand Prix. He has one older sister, Sonia, who acted as Irvine's physiotherapist until 1999. He grew up in the village of Conlig and was educated at Regent House Grammar School in Newtownards.
Irvine was born on 10 November 1965 in Newtownards, County Down in Northern Ireland, to Edmund Sr.
His most successful season was in 1999 when he took four victories and finished second in the World Championship, two points behind McLaren driver Mika Häkkinen. He scored his first podium in 1995 with Jordan, before moving to Ferrari in 1996. He made his Formula One debut in 1993 with Jordan Grand Prix, where he achieved early notoriety for his involvement in incidents on and off the track. He began his career at the age of seventeen when he entered the Formula Ford Championship, achieving early success, before progressing to the Formula Three and Formula 3000 Championships. He competed in Formula One between 19, and finished runner-up in the 1999 World Drivers' Championship, driving for Scuderia Ferrari. ( / ˈ ɜːr v aɪ n/ born 10 November 1965) is a former racing driver from Northern Ireland. Newtownards, County Down, Northern IrelandĮdmund Irvine Jr. Irvine celebrating his first F1 win at the 1999 Australian Grand Prix
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