PODCASTS. “Incroyables destins”: Maurice Trintignant, the forgotten Formula 1 legend

Maurice Trintignant a remporté le Grand prix de Monaco en 1955 sur une Ferrari 625.

Dans ce premier épisode de la saison 2, l'incroyable destin d'un pilote d'exception qui devint, en 1955, le premier français à remporter le Grand Prix de Monaco. Un héros modeste qui vécut dans le Gard. 

In the alleys of the family property of Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes, little Maurice starts driving his father's Bugatti. He is 8 years old. The young boy speeds through the streets of the small Vaucluse village and meets “the swallows” who think they see a car without a driver.

Immediately, the policemen mount their bikes, and capes in the wind, go to inform the mayor that a ghost car is crossing the village. No luck. Ferdinand Trintignant is the chief magistrate and it is his father. That same evening, the boy receives a volley of green wood that he will never forget.

This memory marks the beginning of his early passion and a life of adventures with the scent of gasoline and glory. That of a modest hero and a time when drivers raced equipped with leather helmets and cotton overalls, never sure of not crossing paths with the grim reaper at the end of a badly negotiated bend…