Levegh wordt vooral herinnerd voor een ramp die hem en 83 toeschouwers gedood tijdens de 1955 24 Uren van Le Mans auto-race . The car retained the original engine SPL 261-BN and was valued at £800,000 prior to the auction.In 1953 he came in eighth, and in 1954 he was involved in an accident in the seventh hour of racing.Running up the side of Macklin’s car, Levegh’s car launched into the air, striking high on a retaining wall, disintegrating and scattering components into the crowd.Levegh was killed when he was thrown from the car and his skull crushed by the impact.
By Gordon Cruickshank Several drivers, including Fangio and Jaguar’s Norman Dewis, never raced at Le Mans again.Opinions differed widely amongst the other drivers as to who was directly to blame for the accident, and such differences remain even today.
The self-imposed ban on circuit racing lasted until the 1980s. Pierre Levegh collided with Lance Macklin and his Mercedes departed the circuit – its disintegrated remnants rained down upon a heaving grandstand.
Eight hours after the accident, while leading the race (and two laps ahead of the Jaguar team), the Mercedes team withdrew the cars of Mike Hawthorn and the Jaguar team, led by motorsport manager Funeral services were held the next day at the cathedral in the town of The French press carried photographs of Hawthorn and Bueb celebrating their win with the customary champagne and treated them with scorn.After winning the Targa Florio, the last major race of the 1955 season, Mercedes-Benz announced that they would no longer participate in factory sponsored motor-sport in order to concentrate on development of production cars. https://database.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/pierre-levegh Le Mans 1955 accident: Raw footages of the crash in HDThere was much debate over the apportioning of blame. "Levegh" was one of the first to compete after World War II – his Lago-Talbot T150C finished second behind Eugène Chaboud at Brussels in 1946.
Levegh did not have time to react. Pierre Levegh was door Mercedes-Benz in 1955 ingehuurd als fabrieksrijder.
Official accounts put the death total at 84 (83 spectators plus Levegh), either by flying debris or from the fire, with a further 120 injured. Bij deze race reed Levegh 23 uren non-stop achter elkaar en leidde hierdoor de wedstrijd door het sparen van tijd (benodigd voor het wisselen van coureurs), terwijl er wel een coureur beschikbaar was om hem te vervangen.
Pierre Levegh had a dream: to win Le Mans in a French Car.
Zijn gedrevenheid als coureur was voor Mercedes duidelijk geworden na zijn optreden in 1952 . Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Part of his appeal to Mercedes was his determination shown in the 1952 race when he had driven for 23 straight hours, even though the team had a driver who could have replaced him.
Aside from two layout changes to make the circuit shorter, the Le Mans circuit itself had remained largely unaltered since the inception of the race in Attempting to avoid Hawthorn, Macklin’s car briefly remained on the right side of the track behind Hawthorn, kicking up dust with its right wheels, then swerved across the center of the track. Pierre Eugène Alfred Bouillin (Parijs, 22 december 1905 – Le Mans, 11 juni 1955) was een Frans Formule 1-coureur.Hij nam de racenaam Pierre Levegh aan ter nagedachtenis van zijn oom, die in 1904 stierf.. Sadly, the Le Mans disaster was not the first time that "Levegh" had been involved in tragedy.
That he held a four-lap lead when he retired with little over an hour to go was not unique – but that he had almost won the race single-handed was. Macklin was apparently out of control as he started to swerve, but regained direction after crossing the centerline.
Dewis ventured the opinions that Macklin’s move around Hawthorn was careless and that Levegh was not competent to meet the demands of driving at the speeds the 300SLR was capable of.The official inquiry into the accident ruled that Hawthorn was not responsible for the crash, and that it was merely a racing incident. The car disintegrated and wreckage flew into the crowd with unprecedented tragedy.Pierre Bouillon’s uncle was Alfred Velghe who had raced in the early days of the sport as "Alfred Levegh".
In 1969, it was purchased for £155.
An emergency meeting of the Daimler-Benz board of directors was convened by midnight at the request of Levegh’s co-driver, John Fitch.Mindful of sensitivities involving German cars in a French race just 10 years after the end of World War II, the board decided to pull out from the race as a sign of respect to the victims.
Pierre Levegh Pierre Levegh, aged 49, had been hired by Mercedes-Benz as a factory driver that year. However, that opportunity turned to tragedy on an unimaginable scale.We want the content of the database to be driven by you, the readers. Macklin claimed that Hawthorn’s move to the pits was sudden, causing an emergency that led him to swerve into Levegh’s path. What would you like to see? 12541184, citing Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France ; Maintained by Find A Grave . If you do have a question though, please get in touch.Registration to or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Pierre Levegh profielpagina - Bio, nieuws, foto's en video's ... Pierre Levegh
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