Advertising featureThe Canadian Grand Prix alternated between Mosport Park and Circuit Mont-Tremblant, and moved to Montreal after both were considered unsafe. Ile Notre Dame was chosen, and there was great interest in a new Canadian driver Gilles Villeneuve. Villeneuve drove the number 27 Ferrari. Gilles did not know the meaning...

Sport newsThe FIA and the world of motor sport today mourns the passing of French motor sport icon, Guy Ligier.Jean Todt, FIA President said, “today is a sad day; Guy was a key figure in the revival of French motor sport internationally”.The former rugby player reached the pinnacle of motor...

Former racing driver and Formula 1 team owner Guy Ligier has died. He was 85.Ligier was born in Vichy in 1930, but it was not until he was 35 that he made his F1 debut in the 1966 Monaco Grand Prix, driving a Cooper Maserati. Prior to that Ligier had...

Ex-Formula 1 driver Philippe Alliot will return to the wheel of a Ligier grand prix car in historic racing later this year.The 59-year-old Frenchman, who contested 23 grands prix for the French squad in 1986 and 1990, has purchased a Ligier JS11 from team founder Guy Ligier together with two...