Tony Jardine

Anthony Thomas Jardine (born 5 March 1952) is an English rally driver, motorsport pundit and former Formula One (F1) assistant team manager.

He 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.

[3] Following his leaving the University of Warwick where he studied psychology and sociology,[3][5] Jardine began his career as a art teacher for a year at Woodchurch High School in Bebington,[6][7] and for one year,[8] he was head of the art department at the New English School in Kuwait.

[10] Whilst in Kuwait he took up rally driving for the local Datsun importers in his spare time after an accident in which he crashed his own Formula Ford car meant he was unable to pay for it to be repaired.

[8][11] Outside his later Formula One (F1) management career, Jardine has continued to race in rallying on an amateur and semi-professional basis, mainly in the United Kingdom but also overseas.

[13][14] 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.

In 1985 he formed his own sports public relations company, Jardine Communications Ltd, in which future ITV co-presenter Louise Goodman worked.

[22] Following the death of James Hunt in 1993, Jonathan Palmer moved to become co-commentator alongside Walker and Jardine became the BBC's full time pit lane reporter.