Berger was leading the final race of the season at Adelaide ahead of Prost and Senna before he clashed with former Ferrari driver René Arnoux in the Ligier while trying to lap the Frenchman.

The recovering Depailler fought his way past first team mate Pironi and then Derek Daly to take back 6th place on laps 47 and 48, just when trouble was beginning for fellow Frenchman Jean-Pierre Jarier, leading the race for Lotus, which first became apparent when Jacques Laffite was able to unlap himself in the Ligier.

Frenchman Jacques Laffite dominated the race weekend and made the most of his superbly set-up Ligier by taking pole position, smashing Jean-Pierre Jarier's 1975 pole time by 7 seconds, setting fastest lap and leading every lap of the race up to the finish.

Williams now had one hand firmly on the constructors ' trophy, leading Ligier by 25 points and Brabham by 35 with Piquet's team mates providing virtually no support to the constructor's tally.

In 1997, Prost took over the French Ligier team, running it as Prost Grand Prix until it went bankrupt in 2002.

Ligier is a French automobile maker created by former racing driver and rugby player Guy Ligier.

Neerpasch then left his position to join the French Talbot marque, which was also planning to enter Formula One, in this case with the Ligier team.

The French Formula One racing driver Jacques Laffite, who won six Grands Prix for Ligier during the late 1970s and early 1980s, lived in Stoke Poges during some of his racing career.

Some governments tried to ban their drivers from going, and the Ligier and Renault teams did boycott the race in line with the French government's ban on sporting events in South Africa ; however French drivers Alain Prost, who had wrapped up the 1985 championship in the previous race, and Philippe Steriff, both driving for British teams, did take part.

Third was taken by French driver Jacques Laffite driving a Ligier JS5.

Arnoux won by 34 seconds over fellow French driver Jacques Laffite driving a Ligier JS11 / 15.

The race was won by French driver Didier Pironi driving a Ligier JS11 / 15.

Reutemann won by 1 minute and 13 seconds over French driver Jacques Laffite driving Ligier JS11 / 15.

Jones won by four seconds over French driver Didier Pironi driving a Ligier JS11 / 15.

The large French contingent had dominated proceedings with the all-French teams Renault and Ligier taking up four of the top six grid positions with only Jones and his Williams team mate Carlos Reutemann intervening.

The race had been dominated in the early running by French Equipe Ligier drivers Didier Pironi and Jacques Laffite who between them led the first thirty laps of the race.

They were followed by René Arnoux in the other Renault, Jones's Argentine teammate Carlos Reutemann, French driver Jacques Laffite, Brazilian Nelson Piquet ( Brabham BT49 ), Frenchman Didier Pironi ( Ligier JS11 / 15 ), and Finn Keke Rosberg in a Fittipaldi F8.

Behind Reutemann, French driver Jacques Laffite was fourth in his Ligier JS11 / 15 with Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet ( Brabham BT49 ) and Italian driver Elio de Angelis ( Lotus 81 ) completing the points finishers.

Less than half a second behind in third was another French driver Jacques Laffite ( Ligier JS11 / 15 ).

French teams Ligier and Renault's boycotts were in lockstep with the French government's boycott and sanctioning of South Africa, apparently doing so under pressure.

In Saturday Practice Érik Comas had a massive accident in his Ligier, the French driver was unhurt, but it raised questions about the safety of the second chicane.

He joined Ligier for 1988, ironically alongside the man he replaced at Ferrari, René Arnoux, but the team's first non-turbo powered car since, the Michel Beaujon designed JS31-Judd, was totally uncompetitive scoring no points and more often than not failing to qualify, even against teams with much smaller budgets such as AGS and Rial ( the French teams low point of the year was when both Johansson and Arnoux failed to qualify for the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in the first weekend of July ).

He later did most of the testing for the Ligier F1 team and afterwards turned his attention to touring car racing in France, twice winning the French title for BMW before entering rallycross in an Alpine-Renault with which he won the French title.

After falling out with the Italian team at the end of 1991, Prost found himself without a drive for 1992 ; after the failure of extensive negotiations with Guy Ligier about buying his Ligier team, Prost decided to join Williams for 1993.

On 13 February 1997, Prost bought the Ligier team from Flavio Briatore and renamed it " Prost Grand Prix ".

The team raced with the Mugen-Honda engines used by Ligier the previous season.

From 1976 to 1980, Choulet worked with the Ligier Formula One team, being involved in the design of the JS5, JS7, JS9, JS11 and JS11 / 15 models.

For the related Formula One team, see Equipe Ligier

After seeing a replay of the accident, team boss Guy Ligier fired the Italian, saying that he could no longer afford to keep employing him in reference to the constant repair bills brought about by damaged cars.

Late in, Briatore purchased the ailing Ligier team to acquire its stock of Renault engines.

Switching teams repeatedly as he tried to climb his way up the grid, Cheever had five points-scoring finishes for the Tyrrell team in 1981, and three podiums for Ligier the following year, including a second place at the 1982 Detroit Grand Prix in Detroit.

There was a brief participation in Formula One in 1981-1982 by associating with Ligier and using its Matra connection to secure a Matra engine for them, and although the cars were known as Ligier-Matras the team was using the Talbot marque and sponsorship.

Without a drive for the rest of the 1985 season, Arnoux made his return to Formula One in 1986 for the Ligier team ( powered by the Renault turbo engine ), where he delivered several good performances.

In the 1990s the Ligier ( and, after Ligier was bought, Prost ) Formula One team was based at the circuit and did much of its testing at Magny-Cours.

Laffite's third place was his second podium after finishing second in the 1975 German Grand Prix the previous year and the first such finish for the new Equipe Ligier team.

The Ligier team dominated the race weekend with their superior ground-effect JS11.

Laffite and the Ligier team completed their domination of the South American fortnight, Laffite also dominantly won in Argentina.

Laffite's Ligier team mate Didier Pironi was third, completing an all France podium.

The performances of Jones and Reutemann put Williams 34 points ahead of Ligier and secured the British team their first constructors ' championship.

It also sponsored Pedro Diniz throughout his Formula One career, and Its logo was seen on Forti, Arrows, Ligier and Sauber cars from 1995 to 2000.

Category: Ligier Formula One drivers

However, despite maintaining his motivation, Ligier were not competitive and Arnoux went through three seasons at the back of the grid before leaving Formula One after the 1989 season.

Mirage transforms into a Ligier JS11-Ford Formula One racing car, which is the origin for his Japanese name.

Simtek's clients included the FIA, F1 constructors Ligier and numerous Formula 3000 and Indycar teams.

Thierry Marc Boutsen ( born 13 July 1957 in Brussels, Belgium ) is a former racing driver who raced for the Arrows, Benetton, Williams, Ligier and Jordan teams in Formula One.

In 1991 he moved to Ligier and from there to replace Ivan Capelli at Jordan in 1993, after which he retired from Formula One.

On lap 13 Andrea de Cesaris survived one of the biggest crashes ever seen in Formula One when his Ligier JS25 got sideways at the left hand Texaco-Chikane and onto the outside grass at high speed.

The event was boycotted by several Formula One teams, namely Ligier and Renault due to mounting international pressures against tolerating the country's system of apartheid.

At the drivers meeting before the race Ligier driver René Arnoux announced his retirement from Formula One racing at the age of 41.

As well as Ferrari winning its first and only race of the 1994 Formula One season, the race was especially good for Ligier with Olivier Panis finishing second and Éric Bernard coming home third.

Olivier Panis scored his sole career Formula One victory, earning the last ever Formula One victory for the Ligier team ( and the first ever for engine manufacturer Mugen Motorsports ) after switching to slick tyres in a well-timed pitstop.

Éric Bernard ( born 24 August 1964 in Martigues, near Marseille, France ) is a retired Formula One racing driver, who drove for the Ligier, Larrousse and Lotus teams.

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.

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.