Équipe Ligier

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Équipe Ligier (Script error: No such module "IPA".) 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.[1][2]

Sports car origins

After retiring from racing following the death of his friend Jo Schlesser, Guy Ligier decided to found his own team and had engineer Michel Têtu develop a sports car named JS1 (Schlesser's initials). The Cosworth-powered JS1 took wins at Albi and Montlhéry in 1970, but retired at Le Mans and from the Tour Automobile de France.[3]

For 1971, Ligier had the JS1 developed into the JS2 and JS3. The JS2 was homologated for road use and used a Maserati V6 engine, while the JS3 was an open-top sports-prototype powered by a Cosworth DFV V8 engine. The JS3 won at Montlhéry in 1971 but failed to finish the minimum distance at Le Mans. Therefore, it was retired,[4] and Ligier installed the Cosworth DFV in the JS2 road car, finishing second overall at Le Mans in 1975.[5] Guy Ligier then switched his efforts into Formula One.

Formula One

After the departure of Matra at the end of the 1972 season, no French constructor competed in Formula One for three seasons until Ligier's arrival at the start of the 1976 season. Following the acquisition of the Matra F1 team's assets, Ligier entered Formula One with a Matra V12-powered car, and won the 1977 Swedish Grand Prix with Jacques Laffite. This is generally considered to have been the first all-French victory in the Formula One World Championship[6] as well as the first Formula One victory for a French-licensed team[7] and a French engine.

File:Ligier JS11 2008 Goodwood.jpg
The 1980 Ligier JS11/15 being demonstrated at the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
File:Andrea de Cesaris 1984 Dallas.jpg
Ligier used a turbo engine for the first time in 1984. Andrea de Cesaris drives the JS23 chassis at that year's Dallas Grand Prix.
File:Ligier JS43.jpg
Ligier's last F1 car, the JS43, on display. Driven by Olivier Panis and Pedro Diniz, it provided Panis's only F1 victory and Ligier's last, at the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix.

The deal with Matra ceased in 1979 and Ligier built a Cosworth-powered wing-car, the Ligier JS11. The JS11 began the season winning the first two races in the hands of Laffite. However, the JS11 faced serious competition when Williams and Ferrari introduced aerodynamically modified cars. The rest of the season was less successful for the French marque.

The JS11 and its successors made Ligier one of the top teams through the early 1980s. Despite substantial sponsorship from Talbot (known officially as Talbot Ligier in the 1981 and 1982 seasons)[8] and public French companies – mainly SEITA, Gitanes and Française des Jeux[9] – the competitiveness of the team began to decline around 1982. Around this time, they were testing a Matra V6 turbocharged engine, which never raced.[10] Thanks to the political support of Ligier long-time friend François Mitterrand, in the mid-1980s, the team benefitted from a free Renault turbo engine deal. This, along with sponsorship from companies such as Loto and Elf Aquitaine, made the team more competitive, though not a frontrunner. When Renault left the sport in 1986, Ligier was left without a bona fide engine supplier. An abortive collaboration with Alfa Romeo (due to René Arnoux's harsh criticism on the Alfa Romeo engines) was followed by customer engine deals with Megatron (who provided them with rebadged BMW M12 engines), Judd and Cosworth and then works contracts with Lamborghini, Renault and Mugen-Honda.

Between 1987 and 1991, the team struggled, failing to score points in 1988, 1990 and 1991, and at the 1988 San Marino Grand Prix neither René Arnoux nor Stefan Johansson qualified for the race, the first time in team history that neither car made the grid. In 1990, when fellow French team Larrousse were disqualified after claiming their chassis was built by themselves, while in fact it was built by Lola Cars, Ligier moved up into 10th place in the Constructors' Championship, which gave them subsidized travel benefits, despite actually not being classified due to a lack of points.

In 1993 the team enjoyed an upswing when Guy Ligier sold the team to Cyril de Rouvre after a disappointing 1992 season when they once again failed to fulfil their potential despite being supplied with the same works Renault engines as the dominant Williams team. Surprisingly, the team was somewhat more competitive during this period, in part due to the talents of aerodynamicist Frank Dernie and engineer Loïc Bigois. They scored eight podium finishes over the next four years, contrasting sharply with their failure to secure a single top three position between 1987 and 1992. In the last years Ligier had little public support and lacked funds.

In 1994, de Rouvre sold the team to Flavio Briatore and Tom Walkinshaw. Other organisations bidded to purchase Ligier, including Alain Prost and a consortium consisting of Hughes de Chaunac and Philippe Streiff,[11] with the support of the similarly Renault-powered Williams F1 team, who intended to turn Ligier into a 'junior' team.

In 1995, Ligier switched from the Renault engines as they had been passed/sold on to the Benetton team, the reason given was because Flavio Briatore had purchased the team and had persuaded Renault to switch the supplies to the defending champions in light of Michael Schumacher testing a Renault-powered Ligier car late into the 1994 season which convinced Renault to support Benetton along with Michael. Ligier's replacement engine supplier was Mugen-Honda, who in previous seasons with Footwork and Lotus did not initially have the best reliability. The switch to Mugen-Honda engines was not without controversy, as the contract was originally intended for the Minardi team. Though the engine was less reliable than the previous Renault engine, the 1995 season turned out to be surprisingly successful for the team while allowing them to score points on a more consistent basis combined with securing 2 podiums for the season, Martin Brundle securing 3rd place at Belgium and Olivier Panis securing 2nd at the last race of the season in Australia.

The Mugen-Honda-powered JS43 turned out to be a well-balanced car, if not on par with the Williams entries. It became a surprise winner as well, with the team taking the chequered flag with Olivier Panis at the Monaco Grand Prix, albeit in a race of heavy attrition, with only three cars finishing. It was the first "all-French" victory at Monaco since René Dreyfus in Bugatti in 1930. This ended a nearly fifteen-year-long winless-streak for the Ligier team, the longest of any uninterruptedly existing team between two wins (some teams like Renault, Honda or Mercedes had much longer periods between two wins, but did not exist as a Grand Prix team for most of their respective periods between two wins, and teams with a name change (Tyrrell/BAR/Honda/Brawn/Mercedes-AMG and Jordan/Midland/Spyker/Force India/Racing Point/Aston Martin have longer streaks).

The Ligier name last appeared in Formula One at the 1996 Japanese Grand Prix. At the end of the season the team was sold to Alain Prost and became Prost Grand Prix in 1997.

The team traditionally used numbers 25 and 26.

As of 2025, Équipe Ligier remains the last defunct Formula One team to score a Grand Prix victory.

After Formula One

In 2004, Ligier returned to motorsport after acquiring Automobiles Martini. Tico Martini had designed a Formula 3 chassis that was introduced at the 2004 Paris Motor Show[12] as the Ligier JS47, but with the F3 market cornered by Dallara, the car only raced in the minor Recaro F3 Cup.

In 2005 Ligier introduced a "gentlemen driver" sports car, the JS49, a sport prototype[13][14] made for the 2000 cc CN class, which can be used in the V de V Challenge.

Racecars

Year Car Image Category
1969 Ligier JS1 Group 6
1971 Ligier JS2 File:1974 Ligier JS2 pic1 (cropped).JPG Group 5
Ligier JS3 File:24 heures du MANS 1971 24 (5000950151).jpg Group 6
1976 Ligier JS5 File:Jacques Laffite GP Italia 1976.jpg Formula One
1977 Ligier JS7 Formula One
1978 Ligier JS7/9 Formula One
Ligier JS9 File:Musée Matra 3.jpg Formula One
1979 Ligier JS11 Formula One
1980 Ligier JS11/15 File:Jacques Laffite Ligier JS11 15 2019 Silverstone Classic (48557917442).jpg Formula One
1981 Ligier JS17 File:Laffite en Reutemann tijdens de Grand Prix Formule 1 van Nederland 1981.jpg Formula One
1982 Ligier JS17B Formula One
Ligier JS19 File:Jacques Laffite 1982 Pau.jpg Formula One
1983 Ligier JS21 Formula One
1984 Ligier JS23 File:Andrea de Cesaris 1984 Dallas.jpg Formula One
Ligier JS23B Formula One
1985 Ligier JS25 Formula One
1986 Ligier JS27 Formula One
1987 Ligier JS29 File:Ligier JS 29 1.jpg Formula One
Ligier JS29B Formula One
Ligier JS29C Formula One
1988 Ligier JS31 Formula One
1989 Ligier JS33 Formula One
1990 Ligier JS33B File:Philippe Alliot 1990 United States.jpg Formula One
1991 Ligier JS35 File:Ligier JS35.jpg Formula One
Ligier JS35B Formula One
1992 Ligier JS37 Formula One
1993 Ligier JS39 File:Martin Brundle - Ligier JS39 during practice for the1993 British Grand Prix (33557361031) (cropped).jpg Formula One
1994 Ligier JS39B File:Eric Bernard - Ligier JS39B at the 1994 British Grand Prix (31729365813).jpg Formula One
1995 Ligier JS41 File:Martin Brundle 1995 Britain.jpg Formula One
1996 Ligier JS43 File:Ligier JS43 front-left Honda Collection Hall.jpg Formula One
2004 Ligier JS47 Formula Three
Ligier JS49 Group CN
2008 Ligier JS51 File:Ligier JS 51 (Foto Sp).JPG Group CN
2012 Ligier JS53 File:Ligier-Martini JS53 - Mondial de l'Automobile de Paris 2012 - 203.jpg Group CN
2014 Ligier JS55 Group CN
Ligier JS P2 File:Michael Shank Racing - Ligier JS P2-Honda -49 (27802320135).jpg LMP2
2015 Ligier JS P3 File:Ligier-01(1).jpg LMP3
2017 Ligier JS P217 File:Ligier JSP217 - Gibson - Team United Motorsport - 24 Hours of Le Mans 2018.jpg LMP2
Ligier Nissan DPi File:Nissan Onroak DPi Petit Le Mans 2017 (cropped).jpg DPi
2018 Ligier JS2 R File:Ligier-09.jpg GT Racing
Ligier JS P4 File:Rétromobile 2018 - Ligier JS P4 - 2018 - 001.jpg LMP4
2019 Ligier JS F3 File:72DakotaDickerson F3Americas RoadAmerica.jpg Formula Three
2020 Ligier JS P320 File:Jr III Motorsports's Ligier JS P320.jpg LMP3
2024 Lamborghini SC63 File:2024 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps Lamborghini Iron Lynx Lamborghini SC63 No.63 (DSC02437).jpg LMDh
2025 Ligier JS P325 LMP3

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year Chassis Engine(s) Tyres Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Points WCC
1976 JS5 Matra MS73 3.0 V12 G BRA RSA USW ESP BEL MON SWE FRA GBR GER AUT NED ITA CAN USA JPN 20 6th
Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite Ret Ret 4 12 3 12 4 14 DSQ Ret 2 Ret Template:F1 race position Ret Ret Template:F1 race position
1977 JS7 Matra MS76 3.0 V12 G ARG BRA RSA USW ESP MON BEL SWE FRA GBR GER AUT NED ITA USA CAN JPN 18 8th
Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite NC Ret Ret 9 Template:F1 race position 7 Ret 1 8 6 Ret Ret 2 8 7 Ret 5
Template:Flagicon Jean-Pierre Jarier Ret
1978 JS7
JS7/9
JS9 		Matra MS76 3.0 V12
Matra MS78 3.0 V12 		G ARG BRA RSA USW MON BEL ESP SWE FRA GBR GER AUT NED ITA USA CAN 19 6th
Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite 16 9 5 5 Ret 5 3 7 7 10 3 5 8 4 11 Ret
1979 JS11 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G ARG BRA RSA USW ESP BEL MON FRA GBR GER AUT NED ITA CAN USA 61 3rd
Template:Flagicon Patrick Depailler 4 2 Ret 5 1 Ret Template:F1 race position
Template:Flagicon Jacky Ickx Ret 6 Ret Ret 5 Ret Ret Ret
Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite Template:F1 race position Template:F1 race position Ret Ret Template:F1 race position Template:F1 race position Ret 8 Ret 3 3 3 Ret Ret Ret
1980 JS11/15 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 G ARG BRA RSA USW BEL MON FRA GBR GER AUT NED ITA CAN USA 66 2nd
Template:Flagicon Didier Pironi Ret 4 3 6 1 Template:F1 race position 2 Template:F1 race position Ret Ret Ret 6 Template:F1 race position 3
Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite Ret Ret 2 Ret Template:F1 race position 2 Template:F1 race position Ret 1 4 3 9 8 5
1981 JS17 Matra MS81 3.0 V12 M USW BRA ARG SMR BEL MON ESP FRA GBR GER AUT NED ITA CAN CPL 44 4th
Template:Flagicon Jean-Pierre Jarier Ret 7
Template:Flagicon Jean-Pierre Jabouille DNQ NC Ret DNQ Ret
Template:Flagicon Patrick Tambay Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret
Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite Ret 6 Ret Ret 2 3 Template:F1 race position Ret 3 3 Template:F1 race position Ret Ret 1 6
1982 JS17
JS17B
JS19 		Matra MS81 3.0 V12 M RSA BRA USW SMR BEL MON DET CAN NED GBR FRA GER AUT SUI ITA CPL 20 8th
Template:Flagicon Eddie Cheever Ret Ret Ret 3 Ret 2 10 DNQ Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret 6 3
Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite Ret Ret Ret 9 Ret 6 Ret Ret Ret 14 Ret 3 Ret Ret Ret
1983 JS21 Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8
Ford Cosworth DFY 3.0 V8 		M BRA USW FRA SMR MON BEL DET CAN GBR GER AUT NED ITA EUR RSA 0 NC
Template:Flagicon Jean-Pierre Jarier Ret Ret 9 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 10 8 7 Ret 9 Ret 10
Template:Flagicon Raul Boesel Ret 7 Ret 9 Ret 13 10 Ret Ret Ret DNQ 10 DNQ 15 NC
1984 JS23 Renault EF4 1.5 V6 t M BRA RSA BEL SMR FRA MON CAN DET DAL GBR GER AUT NED ITA EUR POR 3 10th
Template:Flagicon François Hesnault Ret 10 Ret Ret DNS Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 8 8 7 Ret 10 Ret
Template:Flagicon Andrea de Cesaris Ret 5 Ret 6 10 Ret Ret Ret Ret 10 7 Ret Ret Ret 7 12
1985 JS25 Renault EF4B 1.5 V6 t P BRA POR SMR MON CAN DET FRA GBR GER AUT NED ITA BEL EUR RSA AUS 23 6th
Template:Flagicon Andrea de Cesaris Ret Ret Ret 4 14 10 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret
Template:Flagicon Philippe Streiff 10 9 8 3
Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite 6 Ret Ret 6 8 12 Ret 3 3 Ret Ret Ret 11 Template:F1 race position 2
1986 JS27 Renault EF4B 1.5 V6 t P BRA ESP SMR MON BEL CAN DET FRA GBR GER HUN AUT ITA POR MEX AUS 29 5th
Template:Flagicon René Arnoux 4 Ret Ret 5 Ret 6 Ret 5 4 4 Ret 10 Ret 7 15 7
Template:Flagicon Jacques Laffite 3 Ret Ret 6 5 7 2 6 Ret
Template:Flagicon Philippe Alliot Ret 9 Ret Ret Ret 6 8
1987 JS29B
JS29C 		Megatron M12/13 1.5 L4 t G BRA SMR BEL MON DET FRA GBR GER HUN AUT ITA POR ESP MEX JPN AUS 1 11th
Template:Flagicon René Arnoux DNS 6 11 10 Ret Ret Ret Ret 10 10 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret
Template:Flagicon Piercarlo Ghinzani Ret 7 12 Ret Ret EX Ret 12 8 8 Ret Ret Ret 13 Ret
1988 JS31 Judd CV 3.5 V8 G BRA SMR MON MEX CAN DET FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR ESP JPN AUS 0 NC
Template:Flagicon René Arnoux Ret DNQ Ret Ret Ret Ret DNQ 18 17 Ret Ret 13 10 Ret 17 Ret
Template:Flagicon Stefan Johansson 9 DNQ Ret 10 Ret Ret DNQ DNQ DNQ Ret 11 DNQ Ret Ret DNQ 9
1989 JS33 Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8 G BRA SMR MON MEX USA CAN FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR ESP JPN AUS 3 13th
Template:Flagicon René Arnoux DNQ DNQ 12 14 DNQ 5 Ret DNQ 11 DNQ Ret 9 13 DNQ DNQ Ret
Template:Flagicon Olivier Grouillard 9 DSQ Ret 8 DNQ DNQ 6 7 Ret DNQ 13 Ret DNQ Ret Ret Ret
1990 JS33B Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8 G USA BRA SMR MON CAN MEX FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR ESP JPN AUS 0 NC
Template:Flagicon Nicola Larini Ret 11 10 Ret Ret 16 14 10 10 11 14 11 10 7 7 10
Template:Flagicon Philippe Alliot EX 12 9 Ret Ret 18 9 13 DSQ 14 DNQ 13 Ret Ret 10 11
1991 JS35
JS35B 		Lamborghini 3512 3.5 V12 G USA BRA SMR MON CAN MEX FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR ESP JPN AUS 0 NC
Template:Flagicon Thierry Boutsen Ret Ret 7 7 Ret 8 12 Ret 9 17 11 Ret 16 Ret 9 Ret
Template:Flagicon Érik Comas DNQ Ret 10 10 8 DNQ 11 DNQ Ret 10 Ret 11 11 Ret Ret 18
1992 JS37 Renault RS3B 3.5 V10
Renault RS3C 3.5 V10 		G RSA MEX BRA ESP SMR MON CAN FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR JPN AUS 6 8th
Template:Flagicon Thierry Boutsen Ret 10 Ret Ret Ret 12 10 Ret 10 7 Ret Ret Ret 8 Ret 5
Template:Flagicon Érik Comas 7 9 Ret Ret 9 10 6 5 8 6 Ret DNQ Ret Ret Ret Ret
1993 JS39 Renault RS5 3.5 V10 G RSA BRA EUR SMR ESP MON CAN FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR JPN AUS 23 5th
Template:Flagicon Martin Brundle Ret Ret Ret 3 Ret 6 5 5 14 8 5 7 Ret 6 9 6
Template:Flagicon Mark Blundell 3 5 Ret Ret 7 Ret Ret Ret 7 3 7 11 Ret Ret 7 9
1994 JS39B Renault RS6 3.5 V10 G BRA PAC SMR MON ESP CAN FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR EUR JPN AUS 13 6th
Template:Flagicon Éric Bernard Ret 10 12 Ret 8 13 Ret 13 3 10 10 7 10
Template:Flagicon Johnny Herbert 8
Template:Flagicon Franck Lagorce Ret 11
Template:Flagicon Olivier Panis 11 9 11 9 7 12 Ret 12 2 6 7 10 DSQ 9 11 5
1995 JS41 Mugen-Honda MF-301 3.0 V10 G BRA ARG SMR ESP MON CAN FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR EUR PAC JPN AUS 24 5th
Template:Flagicon Aguri Suzuki 8 Ret 11 6 Ret DNS
Template:Flagicon Martin Brundle 9 Ret 10 4 Ret Ret 3 Ret 8 7 Ret
Template:Flagicon Olivier Panis Ret 7 9 6 Ret 4 8 4 Ret 6 9 Ret Ret Ret 8 5 2
1996 JS43 Mugen-Honda MF-301 HA 3.0 V10 G AUS BRA ARG EUR SMR MON ESP CAN FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR JPN 15 6th
Template:Flagicon Olivier Panis 7 6 8 Ret Ret 1 Ret Ret 7 Ret 7 5 Ret Ret 10 7
Template:Flagicon Pedro Diniz 10 8 Ret 10 7 Ret 6 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 6 Ret Ret
Source:[15]

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  6. ↑ Team, car, engine and driver were French and tyres American (Goodyear). Jean-Pierre Jabouille and Renault achieved victory at the 1979 French Grand Prix with an all-French Renault car and French Michelin tyres.
  7. ↑ Jackie Stewart achieved victory at the 1968 Dutch Grand Prix with the French Matra MS10 car, but the car was entered by the British privateer team Matra International.
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