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Originally Posted by masraum
This is a really sad photo Pierre Levegh at the 1952 24 hours of Le Mans This picture was taken just after his car had broken down in the race, with under 40 minutes of the race left to run, at the time he was four laps in the lead. He had driven the 23 hours solo a quite extraordinary feat. You can see how sad his wife felt for him. She was awarded the coupe de Dames as she had been keeping his times for the duration of the race, she is still holding the stopwatch. In those days you had to take the chequered flag to have been deemed to finish. Pierre Levegh was so close to victory but ended unclassified and did not appear in the results. Photo courtesy of Ouest France.
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Not as sad as he was in 1955...