Ligier Group

Great stuff to see them coming in and punching.

The new Ligier made its competitive debut in the weekend.

Unfortunately, I caught a big accident in Hans-Wilhelm Goebbelsen.

um but i'm sure they will be back and there'll be some daily sports car stories about some new revised machinery for that class in due course uh luca magnuson as well taking a championship win um as part of the paddock racing paddock motorsport my apologies winning crew in mclaren trophy europe so no shortage of stuff to watch and and like last of the championships that we can draw a veil over

More France, yes.

From 1976 to 1996, another 20-year stint, 580 entries with nine wins for one Ligier.

So yeah, they came about in the late 70s.

They picked up the leftover bits of Matra, which we mentioned Matra early on that were the kind of What were they at the beginning of? Did I say Brabham or Tyrrell? I don't remember where Mattra was.

I love that race for that reason.

The 96 Monaco Grand Prix.

Yeah, driving the Ligier, the Parnis.

I remember this when I was looking into this race years ago.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, Mark Blundell drove for McLaren, drove for Tyrrell, Ligier and Brabham in Formula One.

But Bruce Giovanni also didn't mention his single season in the British Touring Car Championship either in 2019 in an Audi S3 Saloon.

gleaning five points but he wasn't in the strongest car in fairness but those Le Mans that Le Mans success will certainly stand Blundell in good stead moving forward he finished first in 1992 in the Peugeot Talbot Sport 905 with Derek Warwick and Yannick Dalmas third position in class the following year in 1995 in the McLaren F1 GTR Was that a surprise PMAC to you that Conway is going to step away entirely from motor racing?

Oh.

It was Ligier.

Ligier, of course.

Uh, yeah.

He got 12 points across six seasons, so he scored something, but not a-

Yeah

... either crumbled or just dug into the earth so much, his head was sort of resting on the ground.

But yeah, I was wondering if it was him that did, had the fire in the Ligier.

No, actually two cars.

I bought a new LMP3 car, uh, from Ligier, so they flew that over, but I wasn't involved in the actual shipping part, just having to get clearance and EPA allowance and so forth.

But another time, I, I bought a 2019 Formula 1 car from the Netherlands, and I had it shipped over, and we flew it, and this was in 2021, I believe, and it was over $30,000 for the shipping.

That sounds about right.