[#Ligier50years – Story #40] 2004-2005: more than 4️⃣0️⃣ years after the make’s creation, Ligier was back in Magny-Cours launching a CN, a new light sports-prototype, the Ligier JS49. A first client arrived: Jacques Nicolet. 🎙 “It was the first time I met Guy. He definitely lived up to his reputation! Carried away by our passion, we spent the night talking. We talked about the past, the good and bad memories. We talked about reshaping the world, at least the motorsport world. It was only a few years later that we talked about building our future together…”
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🔥 BREAKING ❗️She has arrived. The Ligier JS2 R, the make's latest GT, is now available in North America. Produced in the workshops of Ligier Automotive North America located in Denver, North Carolina, she is waiting for you. For this event, she is wearing a special livery with the iconic #5 in tribute to the Ligier JS2 that crossed the finishing line 2nd at the @24heuresdumans 1975! .
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[#Throwback] Great history for Ligier at #PetitLeMans @imsa_racing with our #backtoback victories 🏆🏆 in 2016 & 2017 in #LMP2 and #DPI with the @meyershankracing Ligier JS P2 and the @esm_racing Ligier Nissan DPi. 🤩 In 2018, and ESM DPI clinched the pole position. Looking forward to tomorrow's race with @coreautosport Ligier Nissan DPi! 👊
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📸 ESM - Big Tom Photography / Meyer Shank Racing
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[#Ligier50years – Story #39] 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣6️⃣, Monaco, @olivepanis clinched Ligier’s first GP victory since 1981! On a wet track, the F1s were running off track one after the other, but Olivier managed to keep his Ligier JS43 with the Mugen Honda engine on the track, scored multiple fastest laps and crossed the finishing line in front of Coulthard’s McLaren. 🏎 💨 A great finish for the “Bleus” squad which thrilled France 🇫🇷 and its creator, Guy Ligier during 2️⃣0️⃣ years. The following year, the team was renamed Prost Grand Prix by its new owner.
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BREAKING 🔥 The Ligier JS F3 & the Ligier JS F4 both on display at the @sccaofficial #therunoffs at @virnow 🏎 The Ligier JS F3 driven by @f3americas driver @kentvaccaro16 and managed by @momentummotorsportsllc LLC will hit the track for the 1️⃣st time at the Runoffs. Stay tuned 📢
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[#Ligier50years – Story #38] 1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣7️⃣, the new Ligier JS29 with its Alfa engine did not make it to the first GP in Brazil! After some catastrophic tests at Imola, Arnoux declared to the press 📢 “the Alfa engines break like glass”. Alfa seized this opportunity and terminated the contract with Ligier. This blunder was very timely. Alfa was just incorporated into the Fiat Group which already owned Ferrari. One F1 team was enough for the Italian Group! Ligier was left without an engine and had to give up on the first GP. Years of hard times came afterwards for the “Bleus”, with only few upturns.
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📣 BREAKING NEWS❗️ An even stronger calendar in 2020 💪 for the Ligier JS Cup France organised by @fun_racing_car:
✅ 7️⃣ races in France with a visit to the @circuitdespafrancorchamps as a bonus
✅ 🔟-hour of driving on average
✅ only 2️⃣-day meetings 😎
All with @hankookmotorsports slick tyres ! For the full story 👉 link in our bio
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🚦It has started! The sixth race of the Ligier JS Cup France @fun_racing_car is on! Let’s go for 3h30 of racing with 2️⃣5️⃣ Ligier JS2 R battling on the @circuit_de_ledenon ! @zoshcompetition #10 and the @mtracing92 #48 started on the front row 👊🏎💨
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The Ligier JS2 R continues to discover new playing fields! Last weekend it finished 3️⃣rd overall at the @500nocturnes with @pegasusracing29 and now it’s heading to its first @ultimatecupseries race in Valence in Spain. Meanwhile, 27 Ligier JS2 Rs are heading to Ledenon for the 6th race of the Ligier JS Cup France 🇫🇷! .
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#justraceit #ligierautomotive #ligier #ligierjs2r #gt #endurance #racing #motorsport 📸 Michelle Lebugle
[#Ligier50years – Story #37] 😢 1️⃣3️⃣ July 1986, England GP, Brands Hatch. Laffite was getting close to matching Graham Hill’s record of 176 GPs, with the pressure that came with this. 🎤 “Something felt off with this race! The 1️⃣3️⃣ July of my 1️⃣3️⃣th GP season, even if I’m not superstitious, how can I not think of it”. At the start, Laffite got stuck in a massive pile up and hit the rail at front. “Johansson’s Ferrari was suddenly in front of me, cutting me off. I turned and braked not to hit him. I was driving on the grass and my tyres had no more grip. In front of me there was a barrier. I was heading straight into it. It was time to pay the high price for so many years of happiness”. And what a cost! Fourteen hours of surgery, the heel bone broken in 48 pieces, multiple legs fractures and 7 at the pelvis. This was the end of a great F1 career and the end of an era for Ligier.
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🔥 Second 🥇-🥈in a row for the Ligier JS P3s #11 of @eurointernational and the #13 of @intereuropolcompetition at the @elms_official #4HSPA 🤩👊 Congrats to the teams and drivers @mikkelhjensen / Jens Petersen & Martin Hippe / Nigel Moore! .
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🏆🏆 Double podium for the Ligier JS P3s at #SPAROUND @lemanscup after 3 Normas were disqualified for not complying with the Technical Regulation.
🥈 #98 Motorsport 98 Ligier JS P3 – Eric De Doncker / Dino Lunardi
🥉#55 Spirit of Race Ligier JS P3 - @champion on_1458 / Michele Rugolo
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