You’re developing two reputations in parallel Jordan, one as a very, very good driver and the other..

“As ‘the weird guy’?

“I think it’s important to not take yourself too seriously and the weird stuff on social media, the Vine films, the mullet, all of that, I just don’t ever want to be seen as one of ‘those guys’ that has a persona of being up on a pedestal and a little stuck up.

“I just wanted to show that I do have some personality and that as a whole we are just normal people, very aware that what we do is different but that we like to have some fun as well.”

(Here’s Ryan Eversley with Jordan during Magnus Racing’s very excellent Daytona webcast)

And that part of your persona, how much is you, and how much of you is it?

“Well it’s not fake that’s for sure, ask my Dad! It’s definitely me!

“The odd thing is that I do have a tendency to switch between that part of my personality and the serious driving side. I mean I barely even look at Social Media when I’m here at the track, I just switch straight into business mode.

“Some people might not believe it but I would MUCH rather be at the track every day!”

This race has had a different lead up for you, the team includes you Dad and that’s pretty special?

“Yes it is, but like every 24 Hour race you plan first to get to the end and especially this year with so many cars that’s a real challenge. Survival is the key and we have a very tight knit team, not just Dad and Ricky, but Max too.

“Dad raced for so long that much of the encouragement to approach it in that way is coming from him to us rather than the other way around. It doesn’t matter if you lose 6 seconds on a lap as long as you don’t lose 6 minutes in the garage.

With three top drivers in the family – What’s Sunday dinner like in your house?

“It depends on the result! If we have a good race then it will be fun, After a bad race we probably have our own private dinners! We’re a racing family, we’ve been through a whole lot of highs and lows, mainly lows and we all understand how to deal with that as well as anyone can.”

And is there any rivalry at all between Ricky and yourself?

“None at all, it doesn’t exist. We both want to make a career in racing so we don’t want to get involved at all in putting each other down. We know how tough a path this is and we put a lot of effort in to encourage each other, to help where we can. It’s a very cool atmosphere on that front.

“At Daytona it was particularly good to be team-mates, take egos out of it and get on with the job.”

You also have an almost unique perspective I guess on two very new cars, the 2014 DP and the Corvette C7.R?

“I haven’t driven the C7 yet but with the DP, with carbon brakes, paddle shift, electronic throttle with traction control and more power and aero it is a lot of different things to get used to in a pretty short timeframe as a driver, and more so for the team to get around them in terms of durability. I think you’ll see that as the season develops, with some teams taking longer for some problems than you might usually expect.

“In some ways it’s adding the unpredictability that we used to get far more of in endurance racing, and for a while at least that could be a very good thing.