Tony Jardine
Tony Jardine is a Motorsport pundit and Sky Sport's presenter [1] who has a varied background in motorsport.
However he began career as a teacher in the USA, UK and Middle East, where he was Head of Art at the New English School in Kuwait. It was whilst in Kuwait that he first raced cars when he rallied for the local Datsun importers in his spare time. He was comparatively sucessful as well finishing eighth on the Kuwait International Rally 1975. [2]
He then moved into the motor racing world by getting a job working for Goodyear's Grand Prix Team, driving trucks and fitting tyres at Grand Prix. His next role was with the Brabham Formula One Team. It was here that he worked with Niki Lauda and designer Gordon Murray. After Brabham came Marlboro McLaren as Assistant Team Manager when the team drivers were Alain Prost and John Watson.
Jardine then left F1 to work for an American promotions company, but within eighteen months he was back in F1 working for JPS Lotus, colleagues here included, Nigel Mansell, Elio de Angelis and Ayrton Senna.
In 1985 he formed his own sports PR company, Jardine Communications Ltd. Louise Goodman worked for Tony.
In terms of his own racing career Tony has competed in four Arctic Rally's and ten Network Q Rally GB's, finishing second in class in 2001 and winning the journalists award three times.
He was for several years an expert pundit on the ITV coverage of F1. He also does a considerable ammount of after dinner speaking. In 2007 his wife was badly injured as the result of a car crash where she was an innocent bystander.