High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Equipe Ligier is a motorsport team, best known for its Formula One team that operated from 1976 to 1996. The team was founded in 1969 as a sports car manufacturer. Acquiring the Matra F1 team's assets, Ligier entered Formula One in 1976 with a Matra V12- powered car, and won a Grand Prix with Jacques Laffite in 1977. This is generally considered to have been the first all-French victory in the Formula One World Championship. The deal with Matra ceased in 1979 and Ligier built a Cosworth-powered wing-car, the Ligier JS11. The JS11 begin the season winning the first 2 races in the hands of Laffite. However, the JS11 faced serious competition when Williams and Ferrari introduced aerodynamically modified cars. The rest of the season was less successful for the French marque. The JS11 and its successors made Ligier one of the top teams through the early 1980s. Despite substantial sponsorship from Talbot and public French companies - mainly SEITA and Francaise des Jeux (deals which Francois Mitterrand helped to put in place) - the competitiveness of the team began to decline around 1982.

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