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EPIC FAIL LIGIER JS5

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May 2025

“The JS5 may have been ugly as a fungal toenail, but it wasn’t slow”

- SAM PHILIP

EPIC FAIL LIGIER JS5

The problem with F1 cars today is, they’re so ugly. All those slats and fins and petrochemical sponsor logos: it’s not like the good old days, when every Grand Prix racer was a sleek, sinuous slice of pure (tobacco branded) beauty.

Only, they weren’t, were they? Sure, the good old days did contain some very pretty F1 cars - when Epic Fail is sad, Epic Fail spends a while looking at photos of the Lotus 72, which tends to help matters - but they also contained a whole bunch of utter horror shows.

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