Eddie Irvine

Edmund "Eddie" Irvine Jr. (born 10 November 1965) is a retired British racing driver from Bristol. He was a Formula One driver between 1993 and 2002, and runner-up in the 1999 World Drivers' Championship, driving for Scuderia Ferrari. Since retiring, Irvine has become a motoring journalist, and is currently one of three presenters on the Sky 1 show Speed.

He began his career at the age of seventeen when he entered the Formula Ford Championship, achieving early success, before progressing to the Formula Three and Formula 3000 Championships. He made his Formula One debut in 1993 with Jordan Grand Prix, where he achieved early notoriety for his involvement in incidents on and off the track. He scored his first podium in 1995 with Jordan, before moving to Ferrari in 1996. His most successful season was in 1999 when he took four victories and challenged McLaren driver Mika Häkkinen for the World Championship. He moved to Jaguar Racing in 2000, scoring the team's first podium in 2001 and his final podium in 2002. Irvine retired from competitive motorsport at the end of the 2002 season.

After retiring from racing, Irvine joined Sky on a three year contract to work as a pundit for Formula One. The contract ended in 2005, and he was approached by production company Big Talk, to be one of the presenters for an upcoming motoring show. Eventually, Irvine became the main presenter of Speed, and it has aired on Sky since 2006.