THE BACK OF PIERRE'S MERCEDES WAS NOT DAMAGED-_____One of the arguments against the fact that Pierre deployed the airbrake and that caused the car to come apart is the idea that it hit the berms at the side of the track before it became airborne. _____The papers at the time said it bounced but this is totally wrong. _____The eyewitnesses said it rose high in the air over their heads but more importantly,when Pierre's Mercedes is rolling over in that dust cloud and as it flops over on the berm, _____before it explodes-the rear of the car - except for the air brake panel being torn off it -the rear of the car is undamaged. _____Also ,had the car bounced or hit something else, _____1.the entire rear of the car would be damaged , _____2.the front end of the car would not have flown straight off the car so high in the air with the air brake panel flying right behind it straight after it and, _____3.Pierre's body would have flown out of the car in an entirely different direction then it did. _____When Pierre's Mercedes lands on that berm-the rear bodywork is undamaged as is the frame from just in front of the driver to the back of the car and the transmission,rear end,the rear tires and wheels and the fuel tank are all undamaged before the car lands on the berm, where the fuel tank ruptures and the fuel explodes. _____What this means is that the event that tore the car apart happened in mid air by forces imposed on the car when Pierre yanked that airbrake handle to open to try and slow the car. _____Therefore,the Mercedes engineers who put the airbrake panel on the car and Pierre Levegh who did'nt hesitate one second to use it-both saved thousands of lives that day.
