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Issue Nº 14·June 2026·News & Behind the scenes
From Paris to Monaco: the through-line of a life run like a raceFeatured
Portrait14 August 2026

From Paris to Monaco: the through-line of a life run like a race

Born in Paris in 1970, racing at twenty, running businesses at twenty-five, building hypercars out of Monaco: nothing in Bruno Laffite's path is accidental. All of it comes down to method.

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Jacques Laffite: the uncle who gave France its first all-French win
Roots07 August 2026

Jacques Laffite: the uncle who gave France its first all-French win

Six wins, 177 Grands Prix, a team that became a national cause. In Sweden in 1977, Jacques Laffite scored the first all-French victory in the history of Formula 1.

Dominique Laffite: the dealership, the workshop and the Monte-Carlo
Roots31 July 2026

Dominique Laffite: the dealership, the workshop and the Monte-Carlo

Bruno Laffite's father sold cars in Paris and entered a small rally team in the Monte-Carlo. A different way of loving the motor car: less televised, far closer to the grease.

1976: six years old, a television set and an uncle in Formula 1
Roots24 July 2026

1976: six years old, a television set and an uncle in Formula 1

French television starts broadcasting Grands Prix. Bruno Laffite is six, and the driver on the screen shares his surname. Anatomy of a passion that settles in for life.

Place de la Concorde: when the great departures belonged to the city
Roots17 July 2026

Place de la Concorde: when the great departures belonged to the city

The Monte-Carlo and the Paris-Dakar once set off from the place de la Concorde, in front of the crowd. A look back at an era when motorsport was still a public spectacle.

Champion of the Val-de-Marne: fifteen years on court before the track
Passions10 July 2026

Champion of the Val-de-Marne: fifteen years on court before the track

From early childhood until eighteen, Bruno Laffite grew up inside a tennis club his family treated as its country house. He left it as departmental champion, and with a way of reading the game he never lost.

Piano since the age of six: the discipline of the repeated gesture
Passions03 July 2026

Piano since the age of six: the discipline of the repeated gesture

Started at six, never given up since. For Bruno Laffite the keyboard is no pastime: it is a school of tempo, of anticipation, and of the perfection you pursue without ever quite reaching it.

Business school at La Défense: the meeting outlasted the degree
Roots26 June 2026

Business school at La Défense: the meeting outlasted the degree

At La Défense, Bruno Laffite crossed paths with a third-year student named Pascal Cohen. They lost touch for decades. In 2022 they founded Laffite Automobili together.

Montlhéry 1990: twenty years old, a first race, a first pole
On track19 June 2026

Montlhéry 1990: twenty years old, a first race, a first pole

Taking pole on your very first race entry is close to exceptional. Bruno Laffite did it at Montlhéry in 1990, at the wheel of a Lotus Seven. Anatomy of a debut the paddock noticed on the spot.

Jean Todt, a paddock, a 205 T16: the offer of a single afternoon
On track12 June 2026

Jean Todt, a paddock, a 205 T16: the offer of a single afternoon

A handshake at Montlhéry, and a seat in the European Rallycross Championship in a Peugeot 205 T16. How a twenty-year-old debutant came to be noticed by one of motorsport's most respected figures.

Anthony Beltoise and Bruno Laffite: a generation learning together
On track05 June 2026

Anthony Beltoise and Bruno Laffite: a generation learning together

They started at the same age, on the same circuits, carrying names French motorsport already knew. The story of a paddock friendship and of what a famous surname costs.

Formula Ford, Formula Renault, Formula 3: the climb of a driver
On track29 May 2026

Formula Ford, Formula Renault, Formula 3: the climb of a driver

Ten seasons of single-seaters, several wins and a permanent place among the six best of his generation. A climb built as much in sponsors' offices as on the track.

Prince Albert II opens the Grand Prix at the wheel of the LM1.
Event24 May 2026

Prince Albert II opens the Grand Prix at the wheel of the LM1.

On the rock, before a packed grandstand, the first Monégasque hypercar took to the track. A moment of history for Laffite Automobili, honoured by H.S.H. Prince Albert II himself.

The Évin law, 1991 to 1994: when French motorsport funding dried up
On track15 May 2026

The Évin law, 1991 to 1994: when French motorsport funding dried up

Passed on 10 January 1991 and applied to racing from 1993, the Évin law removed the main source of funding for French motorsport. The chronology and mechanics of a collapse.

A decade without a next wave: the French drivers Formula 1 never saw
On track08 May 2026

A decade without a next wave: the French drivers Formula 1 never saw

After the funding collapse, Formula 1 carried barely a French name beyond Jean Alesi and Olivier Panis. What becomes of a generation that arrives one season too late.

America, IndyCar and Formula 1 tests: a driver's last attempt
On track01 May 2026

America, IndyCar and Formula 1 tests: a driver's last attempt

Crossing the Atlantic only to meet the same budget wall, running a handful of Formula 1 tests, then accepting that the road ends here. An account of a page turned without bitterness.

Karting in Paris and Dijon: ten years on the other side of the wheel
Ventures24 April 2026

Karting in Paris and Dijon: ten years on the other side of the wheel

At twenty-five, Bruno Laffite stopped racing in order to let other people race. Ten years running karting circuits became the business school he never attended.

Orlando, Florida: rebuilding a professional life one house at a time
Ventures17 April 2026

Orlando, Florida: rebuilding a professional life one house at a time

A new country, two small daughters, and a trade with nothing to do with the paddock. In Florida, Bruno Laffite built an identity far from motorsport, and learned what risk really costs.

LM1, Atrax, DTM: anatomy of a range born to race.
Behind the scenes11 April 2026

LM1, Atrax, DTM: anatomy of a range born to race.

Three models, one obsession: the track. Inside the logic linking the LM1, the Atrax and the DTM, from Giugiaro's line to the last damper setting.

Back near Monaco: how an idea carried for decades became a decision
Ventures03 April 2026

Back near Monaco: how an idea carried for decades became a decision

After Florida, he was renovating houses on the doorstep of Monaco. That is where the intuition he had always carried resurfaced: a race car made legal for the open road.

2014 to 2022: eight hard years, then the reunion that changed everything
Behind the scenes27 March 2026

2014 to 2022: eight hard years, then the reunion that changed everything

A 4x4 project, one car actually built, then eight years of holding on alone. Until a friend from business school called back, and a solitary struggle turned into a company.

Giorgetto Giugiaro: the century's pencil in the service of a young marque
Behind the scenes20 March 2026

Giorgetto Giugiaro: the century's pencil in the service of a young marque

Car Designer of the Century in 1999, founder of Italdesign, author of more than two hundred models. At eighty-eight, he gave his trust to Laffite Automobili.

Pianist, tennis player, driver: the man behind the wheel.
Portrait02 March 2026

Pianist, tennis player, driver: the man behind the wheel.

We know the driver and the entrepreneur. We know the pianist and the tennis player less well. Portrait of a man whose discipline never stops at the circuit gates.