Despite the disappointing 1992 season, the car was easily the best Ligier since 1986 and they laid the foundation for the pretty impressive 1993 season with Brundle-Blundell...
That Dernie chap copied Williams where he’d worked previously. He could have had a 100hp advantage over Williams and his designs would still have been 1-2 seconds behind the Newey Williams. I’ve listened to interviews with this Dernie character before and he is perhaps, how shall we say, a little delusional about his level of talent.
@@davidmacdonald1695 Dernie was a bit disappointing as a technical director, but i do think his Williams designs were awesome, winning many world titles in the 1980s under the supervision of Patrick head...
I find very interesting how Thierry Boutsen (justifiably) believes he's on thin ice as he tries to explain Ligier internal problems. Ligier since the early 80's had enjoyed a promiscuous relationship with the French State - as President Mitterand and Guy Ligier were long time friends - which translated in loads of money from state-owned French companies to be poured into Ligier as sponsorship, namely SEITA (through its brand Gitanes) and FDJ (through the brand Loto). This connection also provided for the Renault engines. My guess - and it is pure guessing - is that Guy Ligier felt (or had to) make some compromises for that amount of support, including gearing toward an All-French engineering and design in spite of the fact that F1 - as the pinnacle of motorsport - requires the very best people to achieve success regardless of nationality. And this bias in favor of a political agenda over performance and results had (and always will) harm motivation and morale in the long term. Coincidentially (or maybe not), as Guy Ligier sold the team to Cyril de Rouvre in 1992, the team's fortunes were turned and Ligier enjoyed a much more successful period, although it would not last long.
The 1992 season is still my favourite F1 season ever. Mansell won the World Championship finally in a beast of a Williams FW15B. I would have loved to have seen Prost in a Ligier that season. He could have proved how much of a great driver he was.
Making videos about hybrid F1 cars is on the bottom of my list. I like classic F1 cars. Right now I'm making a video about a 1977 and 1980 car but I'll do some more 90's as well.
Was the Ligier powered by the same engine than the Williams? Bc that 3 seconds gap between them at Kyalami is brutal if they have the same engine. It speaks volumes tho about Adrian Newey's genius.
The 91 JS35 was bulky & underpowered. The JS37 was definitely better- but very much aided by having a Renault V10 in a somewhat average chassis I feel. Boutsen I felt lost his mojo completely after being dropped by Williams…
I think Boutsen was actually looking forward to the Ligier challenge especially with the Renault V10 combination in 1992 but he was disheartened by the Ligier team structure, missing knowledge in the french team compared to English teams. The politics within Ligier were bad at the time as well with Guy Ligier losing his mojo in running the team.
@@ClassicFormulaOne1 I’m not so sure. His wife burst into tears when she found out he’d lost his Williams drive & was off to Ligier. It was only ever going to be a backwards move. Going from the Williams FW13 to the JS35 must have been soul destroying for him
@@chrismc1977 true about the dismissal at Williams. That for sure was a blow. After a blow you have to pick yourself up and I really think that Thierry thought 1992 with Renault would give some good results. 1993 was much better for Ligier.
