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Guy Ligier 1930 - 2015

F1 driver and team founder Guy Ligier had died aged 85. A former rugby player, who played at international level for France, Ligier went on to make his fortune, and powerful political allies including future president François Mitterrand, in the construction industry. Moving on from rugby he first began racing motorcycles and then cars, contesting rounds of the 1966 and 1967 Formula One World Championship in a privately entered Cooper and Brabham. His best F1 result coming at the Nurburgring, where he finished eighth but scored championship points because two of the (F2) driver ahead of him (Jackie Oliver and Alan Rees) were ineligible, Ligier joined forces with Jo Schlesser....
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