Pierre Levegh is a racing driver from France who last raced in Formula 1 for Talbot-Lago. Levegh has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 6 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,778 ranks Levegh 506th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 1951-09-16 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | DNF | −43 |
| 1951-07-29 | Nürburgring | P9 | +39 |
| 1951-06-17 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | P8 | −21 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | ▸Formula 1 | Talbot-Lago | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P20 | −25 | 4,778 |
| 1950 | ▸Formula 1 | Talbot-Lago | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P23 | +4 | 4,804 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇷 Juan Fangio | 6,092 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33% |
| 🇮🇹 Alberto Ascari | 5,339 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇮🇹 Luigi Villoresi | 5,038 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇫🇷 Louis Rosier | 4,858 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇧🇪 Johnny Claes | 4,371 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 67% |
Pierre Levegh was a French driver who raced in Formula 1 during its inaugural era, competing for Talbot-Lago across two seasons from 1950 to 1951. He started six races in the World Championship but did not finish on the podium in any of them. His average finishing position across classified results was eighth place. Levegh belonged to a field of early Formula 1 competitors that included multiple world champions; he shared races with Juan Fangio, a five-time champion, as well as two-time champion Alberto Ascari and other accomplished drivers of that generation. Against Fangio specifically, Levegh finished ahead once across three meetings, though he was outpaced in the other two. He proved less competitive against Ascari and Luigi Villoresi, finishing behind both across all their shared races.[1]
Levegh's most consistent head-to-head record came against Johnny Claes, whom he beat twice in three encounters, representing his clearest outright performances against a professional-level rival. His single victory over the five-time champion Fangio stands as his most notable result on record. Talbot-Lago, the team for which he raced throughout his World Championship career, fielded eighteen drivers in the index but never achieved a race win; it was not a competitive force at the highest level. Levegh's career at the top was brief; after his final championship start in 1951, he competed in other forms of racing. He died in the 1955 Le Mans disaster, one of motorsport's most catastrophic accidents.[2]