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Fact or fiction? The predictions of Eddie Jordan

Team-owner-turned-TV-pundit Eddie Jordan has quite the reputation for making accurate predictions about the future of Formula One. With the colourful Ulsterman recently angering Toto Wolff with the prediction Mercedes is set to walk away from Formula One at the end of 2018, we at ESPN thought we would look back at Jordan's track record and whether his reputation is deserved.

Schumacher to join Brawn/Mercedes in 2010 - True

Eddie Jordan joined the BBC's Formula One coverage in 2009 and started his reputation for enjoying some sort of F1 clairvoyance with the claim Michael Schumacher -- who had retired in 2006 as a seven-time world champion -- would return the following year with Brawn GP, who were to be re-branded as Mercedes.