This book traces the career of a French racing driver from the 1950s: Pierre Levegh, real name Pierre Eugène Alfred Bouillin. He took the name "Levegh" in memory of his uncle, a motoring pioneer who died in 1904.
His name will forever be associated with a tragic moment in motor racing history – the accident at the 1955 Le Mans 24 Hours in which Levegh himself and 83 spectators lost their lives – but also with an important transformation: greater safety, redesigned infrastructure and the gradual dawn of a new era.
This book is a moving and appropriate tribute to a man of his time, unfairly reduced to the role of tragic symbol, whose story deserves to be told with precision, passion and humanity.
Pierre Levegh, Pierre Bouillin: someone who would certainly have preferred a different place in motor racing history than that of the man behind the Le Mans disaster.
Une Histoire Tragique, Pierre Bouillin "Levegh" - Le Pilote Maudit has 112 pages. Text in French.
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