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F1: Ayrton Senna, F1 team owner?

Eddie Jordan claims that he offered Ayrton Senna a 50% stake in his F1 team in a bid to secure the services of the three-time world champion. The Irishman, talking to the Formula for Success podcast, reveals that he made the move in 1993, at a time the legendary Brazilian was clearly unhappy at McLaren, having previously failed to sign him to his F3 team ten years earlier. 'In 1982 I had a guy called Jim Wright, who was my scout,' says Jordan. I did things a different way, I had Jim doing all the junior races to see who could I come up with for Formula 3, because I always felt that most of the drivers, and that's why Martin Brundle, Johnny Herbert, and Jean Alesi came to me, had very...
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