| Racing history at Soberanes Point!
France's Pierre Levegh tried to win the 1952 LeMans 24-Hours single-handed
in this car. With only 90 minutes to go, he was four laps ahead of
the ultimate winner, the Mercedes- Benz 300-SL Prototype of Hermann Lang/Fritz
Reiss when (as legend has it) he missed a shift due to driver fatigue and
over-revved the engine.
This car went south but it didn't appear at the lunchtime display
in downtown Carmel. ??? |