Alain Prost will team-up with Ligier this year. This was reported by the French newspaper 'Journal du Dimanche' today. They said that Prost has already cut a deal with team owner Flavio Briatore and is now the owner of the Ligier team. It was already reported that Prost was getting closer to a deal.

Ligier driver Olivier Panis drove 119 km in the new Ligier JS45, which was presented last Tuesday, and clocked a best time of 1m 16.97s. His team-mate Shinji Nakano, who used the JS 43, drove 40 laps with a best of 1m 19.65s.