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By Alan Baldwin<br><br>LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - Eddie Jordan was nicknamed 'Flash' as a boy and the Irishman brought a blast of 'rock 'n' roll' to Formula One in the 1990s as a flamboyant team owner shaking up the motor racing establishment.<br><br>The charismatic boss, who died of cancer on Thursday at the age of 76, will always be the man whose fledgling, cash-strapped team gave future great Michael Schumacher his grand prix debut in 1991.<br><br>He will also go down in history as the newcomer in a "Piranha Club" world who had to stand and watch as the German was strong-armed away to Benetton, where he then won two of his seven titles.<br><br>Behind the fast-talking wheeler-dealer, a boss who enlisted glamour models to generate tabloid newspaper coverage at a time when tobacco sponsorship paid the bills, was also a man with serious ambition.<br><br>Often cynical about the business of motor racing, describing his cars as "high-speed billboards" to entice sponsors, he was a character whose loveable rogue image won fans even if some saw a different side.<br><br>A man who might wear a large and very fake designer watch to a court hearing questioning his integrity, Jordan was also a natural pundit -- offering titbits of gossip and inside information with some notable scoops.<br><br>He knew when to crank up the noise, reporters often on the receiving end of broadsides peppered with expletives in the manner of a man spoiling for a Dublin street fight.<br><br>Jordan played drums in a four-piece band, 'Eddie and the Robbers' -- a jokey reference to his perennial efforts to raise sponsorship and funds to keep the team afloat -- and wore a wig from boyhood after his hair fell out.<br><br>"He was an honest, trustworthy guy. Somebody that I would trust with anything I've got," former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, something of a kindred spirit, told Reuters on Thursday.<br><br>"There's nobody in Formula One today that's like Eddie.<br><br>"He was a guy that would help anyone that he could help. He had a bloody good sense of humour. He was always ready for a game and a joke.<br><br>"I wouldn't have called him Flash," added the 94-year-old Briton who once ruled the sport and assisted Jordan financially on more than one occasion.<br><br>"I'd say he didn't have any limits.<br><br>"He said what he wanted to say, did what he wanted to do and didn't worry too much about what people thought. So he was an extrovert."<br><br>Jordan claimed to have been dealing all his life, starting with school books and then selling time-expired packets of smoked salmon and carpet off-cuts to help finance his early racing.<br><br>Schumacher's arrival on the scene was a business opportunity, Jordan needing a driver and some money after Belgian Bertrand Gachot was jailed for spraying a London cab driver with CS gas.<br><br>Schumacher, then racing sportscars, had money from Mercedes and was looking for someone prepared to take a punt on a relative unknown.<br><br>His immediate impact at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix made him an instant hot property and led to Ecclestone spiriting him away before he could sign a longer-term contract with the newcomers on the block.<br><br>"I think when I stole Schumacher from him to put him in Benetton... the bottom line was he didn't want to lose Schumacher, obviously, because he knew he was good," said Ecclestone.<br><br>"But he was more or less thinking about how can he get a few quid out of this?"<br><br>Jordan sold his team in 2005, netting a tidy sum after the team had lurched into difficulties, and it now competes as Aston Martin. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Toby Davis)<br><br>Look at my homepage :: [https://bambiusdt.io/ sex vn học sinh]