Trivia: French driver, Pierre Levegh in 1952 attempted to drive the full 24
Heures du Mans by himself in a Talbot. He was leading after 23 hours, thirty
minutes...then he got sloppy and missed a shift...broke the transmission...
to become a DNF. Levegh finished fourth in 1951 and crashed in 1954. I
wrote earlier today about the 1955 Le Mans race.. in which he was teamed with
John Fitch in the Mercedes 300SLR. Fitch never took his stint as Levegh
crashed two-half hours into the race. Mercedes withdrew their cars
(Fangio/Moss were in the lead) nearly 8 hours later at 2 a.m. Sunday. Mike
Hawthorn/Ivor Bueb went on to take a hallowed win at Le Mans in the D-Jag.
The 'trick' to trivia ...is not to try to learn everything .. but, to learn
where to go to to find it! I have a great resource library!
Lee Raskin
Arnolt-B and 356er
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