Guy Ligier is a racing driver from France who last raced in Formula 1 for Brabham-Repco. Ligier has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 13 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,850 ranks Ligier 428th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 1967-10-22 | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | P11 | −1 |
| 1967-10-01 | Watkins Glen | DNF | −29 |
| 1967-09-10 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | DNF | −87 |
| 1967-08-06 | Nürburgring | P8 | +68 |
| 1967-07-15 | Silverstone Circuit | P10 | +28 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | ▸Formula 1 | Brabham-Repco | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | P19 | +28 | 4,900 |
| 1966 | ▸Formula 1 | Cooper-Maserati | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | P21 | +72 | 4,872 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Jim Clark | 5,692 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| 🇦🇺 Jack Brabham | 5,211 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| 🇳🇿 Denny Hulme | 5,522 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| 🇲🇽 Pedro Rodríguez | 5,220 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇳🇿 Chris Amon | 4,788 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| 🇬🇧 Mike Spence | 4,975 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇬🇧 John Surtees | 4,899 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇬🇧 Chris Irwin | 4,716 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33% |
| 🇸🇪 Jo Bonnier | 4,402 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
Guy Ligier was a French racing driver who contested 13 Formula 1 races across two seasons from 1966 to 1967, driving for Brabham-Repco. His Formula 1 career proved unsuccessful; he scored neither wins nor podium finishes, and his average finishing position of P9.7 across classified results placed him well outside the points-scoring positions of the era. He raced alongside several of the period's strongest drivers, including two-time champion Jim Clark and three-time champion Jack Brabham, finishing behind both in every shared race. His most competitive results came against lesser-known rivals, including a single finish ahead of Pedro Rodríguez, who proved substantially stronger in their other meetings.[1]
The calibre of Ligier's opponents illustrates the competitive difficulty of his grid. Clark, Brabham, and Denny Hulme, a one-time champion, all outpaced him consistently whenever they raced together. Even against mid-field professionals such as Mike Spence and Chris Amon, Ligier struggled to match their pace. His single victory against Rodríguez stands as his most notable result, though it represented an exception rather than a pattern in their four shared races. He spent the majority of his starts with Cooper-Maserati, a team that recorded wins during its broader history but did not achieve success during his tenure.[2]
Ligier's racing career proved brief and unremarkable in terms of results, but it formed only one chapter of a varied life; he would later establish the Ligier Formula 1 team, which became a competitive force in the sport during the following decades. He retired from active racing in 1967 and passed away in 2015 at the age of 84.