Jordan and Cregan join F1 in Schools

Former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan and Yas Marina Circuit CEO Richard Cregan have both been appointed patrons of Ireland’s division of the global F1 in Schools programme, which sees schoolchildren from around the world design, build and race their own miniature, wooden F1 cars.

The rapidly growing initiative is well supported by the Formula One community and already boasts a number of technical gurus as patrons, including Lotus’s Mike Gascoyne, Red Bull’s Adrian Newey and Mercedes’ Ross Brawn and Norbert Haug…