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RIP Guy Ligier

Former Formula 1 driver and team owner Guy Ligier has died at the age of 85, French media reported on Sunday. While Ligier had little success as a racing driver, scoring just one point from 12 grands prix in 1966 and 1967, he came into his own as a team boss. The Ligier team won nine grands prix between 1977 and 1996, finishing runners-up to Williams in the 1980 constructors' world championship. The team's last win was a shock Monaco Grand Prix triumph in the wet in 1996, and with only three cars still running at the finish, by Frenchman Olivier Panis. It was then sold to French five times world champion Alain Prost and renamed. The team, whose cars all carried the letters JS in memory of...
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