 Jordan started the year with high expectations following a generally encouraging, if unreliable, showing in .The team was in its second year with works Peugeot engines, and had also secured a lucrative sponsorship deal with Benson and Hedges that saw the cars turn gold for the majority of the 1996 season, having been launched in a pre-B&H green-yellow-red livery and raced for the first five races in a mustard shade that failed to impress on TV.However, the team still proved unable to score the elusive first win.