Laffite

Number Fifty Five
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Thank you for TrottingHooves for selling me him (and his name change scroll)!!


I have put him with the Ligier team as they are who he did the best with

And the familiar is a nod to the other part of the Ligier team name: Equipe


I dont know if the gifs are him (hope so)
And I know the final image is, once again, not a gif BUT it gives a really unique view

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Formula One World Championship career Nationality: French Active years: 1974–1986 Teams: Iso–Marlboro, Ligier, Williams Entries: 180 (176 starts) Championships: 0 Wins: 6 Podiums: 32 Career points: 228 Pole positions: 7 Fastest laps: 7 First entry: 1974 German Grand Prix First win: 1977 Swedish Grand Prix Last win: 1981 Canadian Grand Prix Last entry: 1986 British Grand Prix Jacques-Henri Laffite; born 21 November 1943 in Paris, is a French former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1986. He achieved six Grand Prix wins, all while driving for the Ligier team. From 1997 to 2013, Laffite was a presenter for TF1. Laffite debuted in Formula One in 1974 for Frank Williams' Iso–Marlboro team. The following year he raced for the same team, now named Williams, scoring a second place in the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. Results for his final two seasons were not good, when he moved back to England, again to race for Williams (11 and 5 points, respectively).

Now in his forties, Laffite returned to Ligier in 1985: in that season he was on the podium three times (Great Britain, Germany and Australia), for a total of 16 points. In 1986 he scored 14 points including two more podium finishes in the first half of the season, but he broke both legs in a crash at the start of the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch, and thereafter retired from Formula One. The race was stopped and restarted without Laffite, who was thus classified as a non-starter and ended his career tied with Graham Hill for the most Grand Prix starts. He was the most successful driver in Ligier's history, having taken six of their nine wins.

As a result of Laffite's injuries, new safety rules were enforced from the 1988 season that stated that in all cars the driver's feet must be behind the front axle line.

Laffite recovered from his injuries and later raced in touring cars, finishing 17th in the inaugural World Touring Car Championship driving an Alfa Romeo 75 for Alfa Corse as well as racing three seasons in the German-based DTM series.

He is now a television commentator for the French network TF1, best known for his reaction to the incident at the 1997 European Grand Prix in which Michael Schumacher collided with Jacques Villeneuve, and Laffite reacted with curse words on live television.

Laffite made his 2007 FIA GT3 European Championship debut at the 2008 Bucharest City Challenge, driving for AutoGT Racing Team.

In October 2008, at the age of 64, he tested a Renault R27 F1 car at the Paul Ricard circuit.

Laffite has two daughters: Camille and Margot, a sports journalist of Formula One on Canal+. He is also golf enthusiast, is a shareholder of Dijon-Bourgogne Golf.

Also deeply attached to the Creuse for Golf Fisheries and nature, he has a property in Creuse near Aubusson.

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