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Former racer Guy Ligier brought
his team, which had previously built and run sportscars, into Grand Prix racing
in 1976.
Ligier generally managed to find a more-than
healthy budget to run his team and there were some excellent times in the late
1970s and early ‘80s with drivers like Jacques Laffite, Didier Pironi and Patrick
Depailler delivering the wins.
However, thereafter the team went into the doldrums
and rarely produced the form its budget should have guaranteed.
In 1993 Ligier’s majority stake in the company
passed to Cyril de Rouvre and a year later on to Flavio Briatore and Benetton
Formula.
Briatore brought Tom Walkinshaw in to shake the
team up and it looked certain that Ligier would end up as the Scot’s F1 team.
This was not to be, and in March 1996 the Walkinshaw
connection was severed. Ironically, the split was almost immediately followed
by the marque's finest hour for years, when Olivier Panis won the Monaco GP.
Prost had a dire 2000 season and have had a struggle to reach the 2001 one!
2000 Result - No points.
2001 Line-up
- Jean Alessi, Gaston Mazzacane