Équipe Ligier
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Équipe Ligier (French: [e.kip li.ʒje]) is a motorsport team, best known for its Formula One team that operated from 1976 to 1996. The team was founded in 1968 by former French rugby union player Guy Ligier as a sports car manufacturer.[2][3]
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Full name | Équipe Ligier |
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Base | Vichy (1976–1988) and Magny-Cours (1989–1996), France[1] |
Founder(s) | Guy Ligier |
Noted staff | Ken Anderson Loïc Bigois Flavio Briatore Cyril de Rouvre Frank Dernie Richard Divila Gérard Ducarouge Claude Galopin Tom Walkinshaw |
Noted drivers | Jacques Laffite Patrick Depailler Jacky Ickx Didier Pironi Eddie Cheever Andrea de Cesaris René Arnoux Stefan Johansson Thierry Boutsen Martin Brundle Mark Blundell Aguri Suzuki Olivier Panis |
Next name | Prost Grand Prix |
Formula One World Championship career | |
First entry | 1976 Brazilian Grand Prix |
Races entered | 332 entries (326 starts) |
Engines | Matra, Ford-Cosworth, Renault, Megatron, Judd, Lamborghini, Mugen-Honda |
Constructors' Championships | 0 (best finish: 2nd, 1980) |
Drivers' Championships | 0 (best finish: 4th, 1979-81, Jacques Laffite) |
Race victories | 9 |
Podiums | 50 |
Points | 388 |
Pole positions | 9 |
Fastest laps | 10 |
Final entry | 1996 Japanese Grand Prix |
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