🇫🇷 Jacques Laffite

Jacques Laffite was an established professional competing in Formula 1 as a solo driver for Ligier between 1974 and 1986. Across 13 seasons in the championship, he started 177 races and scored six wins and 33 podiums. His most recent indexed activity was 1986, when he finished eighth in the championship standings.[1]

Laffite's Formula 1 career spanned a competitive era in which he proved consistently quick against a roster of elite drivers. He finished ahead of Alain Prost, the four-time world champion, on nine occasions, and beat Nelson Piquet, a three-time champion, fourteen times across their careers. Against regular opponents Riccardo Patrese and John Watson, both established professionals with substantial Formula 1 experience, Laffite was closely matched. A single endurance entry in the 2003 FIA GT Championship, a shared-drive category mixing amateurs and professionals, marked his final racing appearance. His six Formula 1 wins and 33 podiums came entirely within his time at Ligier, a mid-grid team whose strongest driver across its full history was Didier Pironi, an established professional contemporary of Laffite's own standing.[2]