A passion for sport and a passion for innovation combine to recount the Matra experience. An era when the make shone brightly through its sporting exploits - victory in the Le Mans 24-hour race over three consecutive years, double Formula 1 world championships with Jackie Stewart winning the drivers’ championship and the Matra Ford MS80 the constructors’ championship, and triple European F2 championships with Jacky Ickx.
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1964
Jean-Luc Lagardère creates Matra Sports and begins automobile competition. Key sector in image, ambience and challenge, in order to re-orient Matra’s image, a company renowned world-wide for its high technology productions, but whose main activity is centred almost exclusively around armament.
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1965
First victory for Matra Sports in Formula 3, with the Matra MS 1 driven by Jean-Pierre Beltoise on 1st July 1965 in Reims.
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1968
At the end of 1967 – start of 1968, the constructor enters Formula 1, firstly with a prototype driven by Jackie Stewart, then with true F1 cars: the MS 10 and 11, which carried off three Grand Prix victories that year.
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1969
The Matra-Ford team wins both the Formula 1 drivers’ championship and the constructors’ championship (Jackie Stewart in the MS80).
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1972
First victory on the Le Mans 24-hour circuit with the pairing of Henri Pescarolo and Graham Hill in an MS 670.
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1973
Another win at Le Mans. The Matra team wins the constructors’ world championship for prototype sports cars with Henri Pescarolo and Gérard Larousse in the MS 670 B.
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1974
Jean-Luc Lagardère, in front of the automobile press, turns the page on Matra’s competitive history after recalling their extraordinary list of honours : 124 victories, 4 world titles and 3 consecutive victories at Le Mans.
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