Alfred Velghe (16 June 1870 – 28 February 1904) was a Belgian-French racing driver and cyclist who competed under the pseudonym Levegh.Alfred Velghe's profile at MotorSport Magazine
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Biography

On 1 October 1899, Levegh drove a

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in a race between Bordeaux and Biarritz (232 km) which he won. He participated in the Gordon Bennett Cup car in 1900 and 1901. He also won the 'Large Car' class of the Paris-Toulouse-Paris race, held in 1900 as an unofficial Olympic sport, in 20h 50 '9 ". Velghe's nephew,

Pierre Levegh Pierre Eugène Alfred Bouillin (22 December 1905 – 11 June 1955) was a French sportsman and racing driver. He took the racing name Pierre Levegh in memory of his uncle, a pioneering driver who died in 1904. Levegh died in the 1955 Le Mans disas ...

, was also a racing driver.

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