1. Tony Jardine has done broadcasting work as an F1 pit lane reporter for the BBC and as a pundit for ITV in its television coverage of the sport from 1997 to 2005.
26 Facts About Tony Jardine
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Tony Jardine has worked with the Brabham, McLaren and Team Lotus teams and run his own sports public relations company.
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Tony Jardine has competed in rallies on both an amateur and a semi-professional basis.
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Tony Jardine was born on 5 March 1952, at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital in Liverpool.
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Tony Jardine is the son of the Royal Navy pilot Eric Percy Jardine.
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Tony Jardine's family moved to South Africa when he was an infant before returning to Wirral, Merseyside when she was nine.
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Tony Jardine later became a cartoonist for the Kuwait Times.
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Tony Jardine was competing in a Palliser Formula Ford car in 1973.
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Tony Jardine was comparatively successful, finishing eighth on the Kuwait International Rally in 1975.
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Outside his later Formula One management career, Tony Jardine has continued to race in rallying on an amateur and semi-professional basis, mainly in the United Kingdom but overseas.
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Tony Jardine has competed in four Arctic Rallies and 27 Wales Rally GBs, finishing second in class in 2001.
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Tony Jardine was a three-time recipient of the journalists' award.
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Tony Jardine tested a Tyrrell 026 at Donington Park in 1998.
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Tony Jardine competed in the 2013 Wales Rally GB and the 2016 Wales Rally GB with co-driver Amy Williams, the Winter Olympic gold medallist.
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Tony Jardine then moved into F1, getting a job working for Goodyear's Grand Prix Team, driving trucks and fitting tyres at races across Europe in 1977.
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Tony Jardine worked with racing driver Niki Lauda and designer Gordon Murray.
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Tony Jardine then left F1 to work for an American promotions company, but within eighteen months he was back in F1 working for Lotus; colleagues here included racing drivers Nigel Mansell, Elio de Angelis and Ayrton Senna.
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In 2012, Tony Jardine International was taken over by the HPS Group, becoming HPS Tony Jardine.
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In 1982, Tony Jardine began working in broadcasting when the commercial radio service Independent Radio News were unable to locate their reporter to cover the drivers' strike at the 1982 South African Grand Prix, so Tony Jardine took up those duties.
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Tony Jardine started working for the BBC in the 1980s, including standing in for Murray Walker, as main commentator, at the 1985 German Grand Prix when Walker had a clash between the 1985 British motorcycle Grand Prix and the German Grand Prix and was asked by the BBC to cover the motorcycle event.
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Tony Jardine was a race commentator for the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
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Tony Jardine presented the 1988,1989, and 1990 official F1 season review videos produced by the Formula One Constructors' Association.
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Tony Jardine was the presenter of Opposite Lock on Sky Sports in the 1990s.
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Tony Jardine fulfilled the role until he was dropped by ITV after the 2005 season.
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Tony Jardine covered A1 Grand Prix and has done broadcasting for the pay-TV broadcaster Sky TV, Sky Sports News previewing each F1 Grand Prix in the Sky studio, Talksport, TalkTV and BeIN Sports, analysing F1 races for Africa and the Middle East.
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In 2007, Tony Jardine's wife Jeanette was badly injured in a car crash, in which she was an innocent bystander.