{"id":460455,"date":"2005-05-01T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=86799"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:18:03","slug":"maurice-trintignant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/maurice-trintignant\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Trintignant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In August 2000, we first ran Ed McDonough\u2019s interview with Maurice Trintignant, as tribute to this wonderful man\u2019s life story, we reprint it here this month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>When our European editor, Ed McDonough, heard that Maurice Trintignant was to appear at the Monaco Historics in late May of 2000, it became his mission to catch up with one of his boyhood heroes. 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