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    TURNING THE AIR BLEU

    Jan 02, 2020 5 minutes
    GARY WATKINS
    PHOTOGRAPHY motorsport IMAGES

    Two things had already dawned on Jacques Laffite when he climbed out of the brand-new Ligier JS11 after a short, first test run. He now understood how the dominant Lotus 79s had done what they did during the season just finished, and he realised that for the season ahead he might have a car good enough to win the world championship. His pace in the French team’s first ground-effect Formula 1 contender through the fast Signes right-hander at the end of Paul Ricard’s long Mistral Straight convinced him on both counts.

    The Frenchman communicated his thoughts to team owner Guy Ligier and technical boss Gerard Ducarouge after completing only a handful of laps at Ricard in December 1978 aboard the Cosworth-engined machine. “I was flat through Signes on my second lap,” recalls Laffite. “I stopped in the pits and

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