Jacques Laffite achieved six Grand Prix wins, all while driving for the Ligier team.
18 Facts About Jacques Laffite
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From 1997 to 2012, Laffite was a presenter for TF1.
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Jacques-Henri Laffite was born in Paris on 21 November 1943.
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Jacques Laffite was trained as a racing driver in 1968 at Winfield Racing School in France.
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In 1976 Jacques Laffite moved to the French Ligier team, scoring 20 points and a pole position at the Italian Grand Prix.
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The 1979 season opened with Jacques Laffite winning the first two races.
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Jacques Laffite fought for the World Championship title until the last races, but eventually placed only fourth, with 36 points.
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In 1982 Jacques Laffite finished only 17th in the final classification, with only 5 points scored.
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Jacques Laffite failed to finish his first race in 1981.
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Jacques Laffite finished second to fellow Frenchman Alain Prost in 1982, and third behind Brazilian Roberto Moreno and Australian John Smith in 1983.
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Now in his forties, Jacques Laffite returned to Ligier in 1985: in that season he was on the podium three times, for a total of 16 points.
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The race was stopped and restarted without Jacques Laffite, who was thus classified as a non-starter and ended his career tied with Graham Hill for the most Grand Prix starts.
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Jacques Laffite was the most successful driver in Ligier's history, having taken six of their nine wins.
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Jacques 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.
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Jacques Laffite is 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.
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Jacques Laffite made his 2007 FIA GT3 European Championship debut at the 2008 Bucharest City Challenge, driving for AutoGT Racing Team.
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Jacques Laffite has two daughters: Camille and Margot, a sports journalist of Formula One on Canal+.
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Jacques Laffite is golf enthusiast, is a shareholder of Dijon-Bourgogne Golf.