Guy Ligier, former Formula 1 team owner bites the dust at the age of 85.
Guy Camille Ligier was born on the 12th of July 1930 in Vichy, Allier, France.
The Frenchman, a previous rugby player and a dashing driver, ran a stupendous prix group for almost 16 years somewhere between 1976 and 1992, triumphant nine races.
Ligier’s prime was the late 1970s and 1980s, with an aggressive crest in 1980, when they were general leaders.
The last win was with Olivier Panis in the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix, four years after Ligier had sold out to another Frenchman, Cyril de Rouvre.
The next year Ligier sold out to four-time best on the planet Alain Prost, who changed the name to Prost Grand Prix and ran the team until it caved in toward the end of the 2001 season.
Ligier was an essential piece of a period in which France assumed a focal part in Formula 1, which likewise saw the presentation of the Renault processing plant group in 1977.
Ligier got monetary support from oil titan Elf, which additionally financed the vocations of a few driving French drivers, and cigarette organization Gitanes.
Among the fabulous names who won races for Ligier were Frenchman Patrick Depailler, Jacques Laffite and Didier Pironi.
