28 Facts About Jordan King

Jordan King is currently the reserve driver for the Mahindra Formula E Team, for whom he made his Formula E debut at the 2024 Berlin ePrix.

Previously, King has been a race winner in the GP2 Series and the LMP2 class of the WEC, as well as racing in the IndyCar Series.

Jordan King is the 2013 champion of the British F3 International Series.

Jordan King attended Repton School in Derbyshire on a C B Fry scholarship and later Princethorpe College in Warwickshire.

Jordan King is the son of former Sainsbury's CEO Justin Jordan King.

Jordan King manages the career of 2024 Euro 4 Champion Akshay Bohra.

Jordan King's early racing career began in karting before he moved to open-wheel racing at the end of 2010.

Jordan King began driving in Formula Renault UK, starting in the Formula Renault UK Winter Series before he began the main championship in 2011.

In 2009, aged only fifteen, Jordan King tested a Formula Two car.

Jordan King drove four races in Formula Palmer Audi at the Silverstone round in 2010, managing to get a podium and impressing series boss Jonathan Palmer.

Jordan King will be the youngest driver to take part in the modern era of the series.

In February 2015, it was confirmed Jordan King would move up to GP2, signing with Racing Engineering, alongside Alexander Rossi, for 2015, where he finished twelfth overall.

Jordan King remained with the team for the following season, where he claimed two victories and finished seventh overall.

In 2017, Jordan King switched to MP Motorsport for a third season of the sport.

For 2019, Jordan King returned with the same team partnered with Indian driver Mahaveer Raghunathan.

Jordan King missed the Monaco round due to his participation in the 2019 Indianapolis 500, with Artem Markelov serving as his substitute.

Jordan King scored two podium finishes during the season, claiming the 3rd position in the feature race at Baku and 2nd in the sprint race at Monza.

Jordan King holds two F2 track records, both set in 2017, at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and Autodromo Nazionale di Monza.

Jordan King was signed as a development driver by the Manor Marussia team for the 2015 season, being retained by the squad, renamed Manor Racing, in 2016.

Jordan King made his debut in a Formula One session when he drove for Manor during free practice at the 2016 United States Grand Prix.

Since 2020, Jordan King has been a development driver for the Alpine F1 Team.

In 2018, Jordan King signed with Ed Carpenter Racing as a part-time driver in the No 20 car, sharing driving duties with owner Ed Carpenter.

Carpenter started the ovals, while Jordan King started the 11 road and street circuit races.

Jordan King paced the field during the only international stop in 2018, the Honda Indy Toronto.

Jordan King returned to Indy car racing in 2019 to make his Indianapolis 500 debut with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.

Jordan King secured the LMP2 victory in his first endurance race and subsequently finished the season with the team.

In February 2021, it was announced that Jordan King would be taking on a sim and development driver role at Mahindra.

Jordan King made his debut in Berlin with Mahindra, replacing Nyck de Vries, who missed the event due to a calendar clash with 6 Hours of Spa.