Jonathan Beale

The drastic scale of this reduction underlines that these U.S. tariffs pose the biggest challenge to the global trading system since the World Trade Organization began drawing up and enforcing the rules 30 years ago. The Director General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, says the tariffs will have substantial implications for global trade and economic growth prospects.

The drastic scale of this reduction underlines that these U.S. tariffs pose the biggest challenge to the global trading system since the World Trade Organization began drawing up and enforcing the rules 30 years ago. The Director General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, says the tariffs will have substantial implications for global trade and economic growth prospects.

She added she was deeply concerned about escalation and retaliatory measures, which have already started, making things even worse.

She added she was deeply concerned about escalation and retaliatory measures, which have already started, making things even worse.

He was a one-off. He was a unique character, as Damon Hill was saying there. People say that some characters in life you meet, their glass is half full. Eddie's was always overflowing. He brought such a unique charisma, a unique personality, humanity, resilience, but also he knew how to do a deal, from selling cars in Dublin...

He was a one-off. He was a unique character, as Damon Hill was saying there. People say that some characters in life you meet, their glass is half full. Eddie's was always overflowing. He brought such a unique charisma, a unique personality, humanity, resilience, but also he knew how to do a deal, from selling cars in Dublin...

And here was a man who started as a banker, then wanted to go racing, selling cars and so on. He went from being a wannabe Formula One star in a Silverstone lock-up garage to winning the Belgian Grand Prix at the iconic Spa Circuit with Damon Hill, the 1996 world champion, leading home Ralf Schumacher, his Jordan teammate, and an extraordinary 1-2.

And here was a man who started as a banker, then wanted to go racing, selling cars and so on. He went from being a wannabe Formula One star in a Silverstone lock-up garage to winning the Belgian Grand Prix at the iconic Spa Circuit with Damon Hill, the 1996 world champion, leading home Ralf Schumacher, his Jordan teammate, and an extraordinary 1-2.

He always believed the impossible was possible, and usually he did that.

He always believed the impossible was possible, and usually he did that.

He took on the big guys. He beat Ferrari. He beat McLaren. He beat Williams. He took all comers. And actually, were it not for their star driver in 1999, Heinz Harald Frentzen, pressing the wrong buttons, which killed his engine, he could well have gone on to have the world champion driver in that year. And that would have taken his team down.

He took on the big guys. He beat Ferrari. He beat McLaren. He beat Williams. He took all comers. And actually, were it not for their star driver in 1999, Heinz Harald Frentzen, pressing the wrong buttons, which killed his engine, he could well have gone on to have the world champion driver in that year. And that would have taken his team down.

which was a very small beer team from Formula 3 coming up through the junior formulas, getting into Formula 1, designing what was, in his first season in 1991, regarded as one of the most beautiful cars ever. If he'd won the World Championship with Heinz-Harold Frensen in 1999, that could have taken him to another level. As it was, Frensen pressed the wrong buttons.

which was a very small beer team from Formula 3 coming up through the junior formulas, getting into Formula 1, designing what was, in his first season in 1991, regarded as one of the most beautiful cars ever. If he'd won the World Championship with Heinz-Harold Frensen in 1999, that could have taken him to another level. As it was, Frensen pressed the wrong buttons.

They didn't finish just two points behind the other two, Hacken and Eddie Irvine, former Eddie Jordan driver, by the way, in that championship, and Jordan sort of tailed off. But he just brought this...

They didn't finish just two points behind the other two, Hacken and Eddie Irvine, former Eddie Jordan driver, by the way, in that championship, and Jordan sort of tailed off. But he just brought this...

zing to everything he did i remember going to various uh sponsorship dinners and in monaco yacht club and believe you me there aren't many more swish venues than that and he absolutely launched into the sponsorship executives who were sponsoring his team only eddie jordan could get away with some of the expertise he came out with and still get their money and what was he like behind the scenes because you were the f1 correspondent when he was at his peak

zing to everything he did i remember going to various uh sponsorship dinners and in monaco yacht club and believe you me there aren't many more swish venues than that and he absolutely launched into the sponsorship executives who were sponsoring his team only eddie jordan could get away with some of the expertise he came out with and still get their money and what was he like behind the scenes because you were the f1 correspondent when he was at his peak

Well, I'll tell you a personal story. My last race for Five Live was in 2004. We flew home on a private jet with one of his former designers to Oxford. And my taxi was late. And now many people would have said, right, Jonathan, you just sit here. I'm going to do stuff. He stayed with me and talked for two hours about life, about Formula One, about family, about everything.

Well, I'll tell you a personal story. My last race for Five Live was in 2004. We flew home on a private jet with one of his former designers to Oxford. And my taxi was late. And now many people would have said, right, Jonathan, you just sit here. I'm going to do stuff. He stayed with me and talked for two hours about life, about Formula One, about family, about everything.