Buy A tragic story – Pierre Levegh – The cursed driver – Le Mans 1955

This book retraces the gripping journey of a French racing driver from the 1950s: Pierre Levegh. Through a tragedy in three acts—three races that have gone down in history—unfolds the extraordinary destiny of a passionate man.

From Lyon-Parilly in 1947, where his Maserati left the track, to the 1952 24 Hours of Le Mans, when he came close to a historic solo victory before his engine failed forty minutes from the finish, to the fateful year of 1955, at the Le Mans circuit, where he met his death in the most dramatic catastrophe in the history of motorsport.

But beyond the tragedy, this story illuminates the man: Pierre Bouillin, known as Pierre Levegh, an accomplished sportsman who chose the pseudonym of his uncle, a pioneer of racing, when he embraced motorsport. His name remains forever linked to a dark chapter in motorsport history, certainly, but also to a major transformation of the sport: enhanced safety, redesigned infrastructure, and the gradual dawn of a new era.

A poignant and necessary tribute to a man of his time, unjustly reduced to the role of a tragic symbol, whose story deserves to be told with accuracy, passion, and humanity.