Guy Ligier is a French former rugby player and racing driver. He first made his name as a rugby player in the late 1940s when he was working as a butcher's assistant in his home town of Vichy. An orphan, he was determined to build up a successful business and saved all his money in order to buy a bulldozer and then went into the construction business.

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  • Guy Ligier is a French former rugby player and racing driver. He first made his name as a rugby player in the late 1940s when he was working as a butcher's assistant in his home town of Vichy. An orphan, he was determined to build up a successful business and saved all his money in order to buy a bulldozer and then went into the construction business. When his rugby career ended - after he had played for the French national team - he began racing motorcycles before trying his hand at single-seater racing with a Formula Junior Elva. With motorway construction booming in France, Ligier was able to build a large construction empire and during the period made important friends in local politicians François Mitterrand and Pierre Bérégovoy. In the late 1960s Guy started racing Porsche sportscars and even raced in F1 with privately-entered Cooper-Maserati and Brabham-Repco machinery. Neither was very successful and so in 1968 Ligier decided to form a partnership with Jo Schlesser and the two bought a pair of McLaren Formula 2 cars. Schlesser was killed that year on his F1 debut at the French Grand Prix, at the wheel of the curious air-cooled Honda F1 car, and Ligier decided he had had enough and retired. He decided that he would build racing cars instead and hired Michel Tetu to design the Ligier JS1, a production sportscar (the initials JS were a tribute to Jo Schlesser). The company was built up in sportscar racing but at the end of 1974 Ligier bought the assets of Matra Sports and embarked on a Formula 1 team. This began racing in 1976 with Jacques Laffite driving. The team became highly-successful in the early 1980s with Laffite, Patrick Depailler and Didier Pironi driving. In 1981 Ligier's old friend François Mitterrand became President of France and when Ligier ran into trouble in 1983 the President ordered that government-owned companies such as Elf, Gitanes and Loto should supply sponsorship. Ligier also had preferential treatment when it came to engines, political pressure being applied to Renault to force the company to supply the team, which used Renault engines between 1984-86 and in 1992-94. The Ligier-Mitterrand-Bérégovoy alliance reached its peak in the early 1990s with the reconstruction of the Magny-Cours racing circuit as a new headquarters for Ligier and as a racing circuit to host the French Grand Prix. President Mitterrand and Prime Minister Bérégovoy backed the idea. In 1992 Ligier realized that the socialist government would not last forever and sold his team to Cyril de Rouvre. He used the money he gained to corner the market in natural fertilizer in central France and set about building another fortune. Within a few months Mitterrand's socialist party was annihilated in the elections and Bérégovoy committed suicide. Ligier also built a successful business building Ligier micro-cars. The Ligier team eventually came into the ownership of former driver Alain Prost and was renamed Prost Grand Prix.
  • Guy Ligier ist ein ehemaliger französischer Formel-1-Rennfahrer. Guy Ligier begann seine sportliche Laufbahn als Rugbyspieler, wobei er bis in die französische Nationalmannschaft gelangte. Später fuhr er Motorradrennen und in der Formel Junior, 1966 und 1967 dann in der Formel-1. Ligier war bei 13 Grand-Prix in den Saisons 1966 und 1967 gemeldet und konnte sich 12-mal für den Start qualifizieren. Dabei trat er jeweils in eigener Regie an und startete in Formel-1-Rennwagen von Cooper und Brabham. Sein bestes Ergebnis war der sechste Platz beim Großen Preis von Deutschland 1967. Damit erreichte er insgesamt einen WM-Punkt. Nach dem Ende seiner Laufbahn als Rennfahrer wurde er Konstrukteur. Seine Firma Automobiles Ligier stellt seit 1969 Automobile her und engagiert sich im Rennsport. Der Name Ligier tauchte immer wieder als Konstrukteurspartner bei Formel-1-Teams auf. Außerhalb des Rennsports ist die Firma vor allem wegen der Kleinstfahrzeuge bekannt, die ebenfalls den Namen Ligier tragen.
  • Guy Ligier fou el creador de la marca d´automòbils Ligier. Fou expilot i jugador de rugbi.
  • Guy Ligier on ranskalainen entinen Formula 1 -kuljettaja. Hän osallistui 13 Grand Prix -kilpailuun saavuttaen yhden MM-pisteen. Hän on kuuluisampi Ligier-tallin perustamisesta kuin F1-urastaan. Talli osallistui F1-sarjaan 1970-, 1980- ja 1990-luvuilla ennen myymistä Flavio Briatorelle ja myöhemmin Alain Prostille.
  • Guy Ligier, né le 12 juillet 1930 à Vichy, est un ancien pilote automobile français. Il a participé à treize Grands Prix de Formule 1, obtenant un point au Championnat du monde des pilotes grâce à sa sixième place au Grand Prix d'Allemagne 1967. Il est plus connu pour avoir fondé sa propre écurie de course de Formule 1, Ligier, qui courut pendant les années 70 à 90 avant de la vendre à Flavio Briatore, qui la revendra à Alain Prost en 1997.
  • Guy Ligier volt francia rögbijátékos, Formula–1-es autóversenyző. A Ligier cég alapítója.
  • Prima ancora è' stato anche un ottimo giocatore di "Rugby a 15" alla fine degli anni 40, arrivando a vestire la maglia della nazionale "B" francese.
  • Guy Ligier is een voormalig Frans rugbyspeler en Formule 1-coureur. Aan het einde van de jaren '40 maakte hij zijn debuut als rugbyspeler, maar nadat hij zijn rugbycarrière beëindigde, ging hij racen. Hij reed in 1966 en 1967 13 Grands Prix voor de teams Cooper en Brabham en scoorde hierin 1 WK-punt. Na zijn racecarrière richtte Guy Ligier het Franse automerk en voormalige Formule 1-team Ligier op.
  • Guy Ligier,, este un fost pilot de Formula 1, jucător în echipa de rugby a Franţei, producător de automobile şi proprietar al echipei de curse Ligier care a participat şi în Formula 1 între 1976 şi 1992.
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  • Guy Ligier is a French former rugby player and racing driver. He first made his name as a rugby player in the late 1940s when he was working as a butcher's assistant in his home town of Vichy. An orphan, he was determined to build up a successful business and saved all his money in order to buy a bulldozer and then went into the construction business.
  • Guy Ligier ist ein ehemaliger französischer Formel-1-Rennfahrer. Guy Ligier begann seine sportliche Laufbahn als Rugbyspieler, wobei er bis in die französische Nationalmannschaft gelangte. Später fuhr er Motorradrennen und in der Formel Junior, 1966 und 1967 dann in der Formel-1. Ligier war bei 13 Grand-Prix in den Saisons 1966 und 1967 gemeldet und konnte sich 12-mal für den Start qualifizieren.
  • Guy Ligier fou el creador de la marca d´automòbils Ligier. Fou expilot i jugador de rugbi.
  • Guy Ligier on ranskalainen entinen Formula 1 -kuljettaja. Hän osallistui 13 Grand Prix -kilpailuun saavuttaen yhden MM-pisteen. Hän on kuuluisampi Ligier-tallin perustamisesta kuin F1-urastaan. Talli osallistui F1-sarjaan 1970-, 1980- ja 1990-luvuilla ennen myymistä Flavio Briatorelle ja myöhemmin Alain Prostille.
  • Guy Ligier, né le 12 juillet 1930 à Vichy, est un ancien pilote automobile français. Il a participé à treize Grands Prix de Formule 1, obtenant un point au Championnat du monde des pilotes grâce à sa sixième place au Grand Prix d'Allemagne 1967. Il est plus connu pour avoir fondé sa propre écurie de course de Formule 1, Ligier, qui courut pendant les années 70 à 90 avant de la vendre à Flavio Briatore, qui la revendra à Alain Prost en 1997.
  • Guy Ligier volt francia rögbijátékos, Formula–1-es autóversenyző. A Ligier cég alapítója.
  • Prima ancora è' stato anche un ottimo giocatore di "Rugby a 15" alla fine degli anni 40, arrivando a vestire la maglia della nazionale "B" francese.
  • Guy Ligier is een voormalig Frans rugbyspeler en Formule 1-coureur. Aan het einde van de jaren '40 maakte hij zijn debuut als rugbyspeler, maar nadat hij zijn rugbycarrière beëindigde, ging hij racen. Hij reed in 1966 en 1967 13 Grands Prix voor de teams Cooper en Brabham en scoorde hierin 1 WK-punt. Na zijn racecarrière richtte Guy Ligier het Franse automerk en voormalige Formule 1-team Ligier op.
  • Guy Ligier,, este un fost pilot de Formula 1, jucător în echipa de rugby a Franţei, producător de automobile şi proprietar al echipei de curse Ligier care a participat şi în Formula 1 între 1976 şi 1992.
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