Formula One driver Maurice Trintignant dies at 87

PARIS (AP) -- Maurice Trintignant, a Formula One driver in the 1950s who twice won the Monaco Grand Prix, died at 87.

The Frenchman died Saturday night in Nimes in the south of France, hospital officials said.

He competed in 82 Formula One Grands Prix, winning in Monaco with a Ferrari in 1955 and with a Cooper in 1958. Trintignant also won the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1954.

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