It’s that weighty philosophical question which GP winner John Watson – the first man to drive a Jordan F1 car – uses to sum up the highly emotional reaction to the recent passing of Eddie Jordan, a team boss whose world championship enterprise caught the imagination like no other.

He ran his own Jordan team in the 1990s and 2000s in F1 and became a popular pundit on TV after selling the team in 2005.

Eddie Jordan, the legendary motorsport team owner who gave seven-time world drivers’ champion Michael Schumacher his Formula One debut, has died aged 76, his family announced on Thursday.