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Maurice Trintignant. He started racing in 1938 at the wheel of a 2.3 litre Bugatti. He then used the same car to compete in the first postwar European race, the Coupe de la Liberation, which was held in the Bois de Boulogne in September 1945. He went on to win the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix for Ferrari and the same race in 1958 with a Rob Walker Cooper-Climax. At the age of 47 he took sixth place in the 1964 German Grand Prix.