{"id":494734,"date":"2015-08-26T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=16240"},"modified":"2024-05-31T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:50:28","slug":"guy-ligier-1930-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/guy-ligier-1930-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Ligier (1930-2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ligier.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-537889 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ligier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ligier.jpg 713w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ligier-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ligier-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ligier-66x100.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ligier-293x444.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a>Former F1 driver and constructor Guy Ligier has died at the age of 85. Although he contested only a dozen races during his three seasons as an F1 driver, posting a best finish of 6<sup>th<\/sup> in the 1967 German Grand Prix at the N\u00fcrburgring, Ligier subsequently founded the team that bore his name and contested F1 for another two decades.<\/p>\n<p>A former international rugby player, Ligier made his fortune in construction and began racing on motorcycles before progressing to cars, but stepped out of the cockpit following the death of his close friend, Jo Schlesser in 1968. When he then became a constructor, first in sports cars and later F1, Ligier\u2019s cars always remembered his friend with the JS designation in their type numbers (JS7 above). After Ligier bought the assets of the French Matra operation, cars bearing his name won eight Grands Prix, three with Matra power and five powered by Ford engines, and the team finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the F1 Constructors Championship in 1980, having run 3<sup>rd<\/sup> the year before.<\/p>\n<p>Connections to the French government, especially president Fran\u00e7ois Mitterand, helped ease Ligier\u2019s way, but with Mitterand\u2019s government in crisis in 1992, Ligier\u2019s F1 team was acquired by Alain Prost, but soon disappeared from the scene. Ligier himself went on to enjoy success in agriculture before focusing on micro cars. To his family and many friends in the sport, <em>Vintage Racecar<\/em> extends its sincerest sympathies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former F1 driver and constructor Guy Ligier has died at the age of 85. Although he contested only a dozen races during his three seasons as an F1 driver, posting a best finish of 6th in the 1967 German Grand Prix at the N\u00fcrburgring, Ligier subsequently founded the team that bore his name and contested F1 for another two decades. A former international rugby player, Ligier made his fortune in construction and began racing on motorcycles before progressing to cars, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":537886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,6003,18114,18330],"tags":[18323,17152,12838,11433,18435,11635,14319,18107,16791,604],"class_list":["post-494734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-ligier","category-people","category-profiles-car-culture","tag-2010s-all","tag-car-culture","tag-ligier-matra","tag-matra","tag-people","tag-alain-prost","tag-guy-ligier","tag-people-profiles","tag-profiles","tag-f1"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Guy Ligier (1930-2015)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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