Franck Montagny

Franck Montagny

Nation:	France
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	2006 European Grand Prix
Last start:	2006 French Grand Prix
Constructors
2006  Super Aguri
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-27. ( 2006 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 7th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Franck Montagny (born January 5, 1978 in Feurs ) is a French automobile racing driver . He is a two-time champion of the World Series by Nissan (2001, 2003). In 2006 he competed in seven Formula 1 races. He competed twelve times in the Le Mans 24 Hours . In 2006 and 2009 he achieved his best overall ranking there with second place. In 2014/15 he competed in the FIA Formula E Championship .

Career

Formula Renault and Formula 3 (1994–1998)

Montagny began his motorsport career in formula racing in 1994 in the French Formula Renault Campus. He immediately won the championship title in this series. In 1995 Montagny switched to French Formula Renault and started for La Filière . With one win he finished fourth overall. In 1996 he contested another season in the French Formula Renault and this time finished the drivers' championship in sixth place, while his team-mate Sébastien Enjolras won the title.

In 1997, Montagny stayed with La Filière and received a cockpit in the French Formula 3 championship . He won four races and was on the podium five times. He finished his debut season in fourth place. In addition, Montagny contested a race in the British Formula 3 championship for La Filière and took part in the Formula 3 races in Zandvoort and Macau . In 1998, Montagny won ten of the 22 races in the French Formula 3 championship for La Filière. At the end of the season he lost 226 to 229 points to David Saelens , who had won the other twelve races, and was runner-up. Montagny also went back to a race in the British championship and the individual races in Zandvoort and Macau. In addition, Montagny made his debut in 1998 for Courage Compétition at the 24 Hours of Le Mans .

Formula 3000 (1999-2000)

In 1999 Montagny moved to DAMS and received a cockpit in the international Formula 3000 championship . With a third place on the Hungaroring , he was once on the podium. He finished his debut season in twelfth place overall and prevailed with 6 to 0 points internally against his teammate David Terrien . In 1999 Montagny also drove two endurance races for DAMS. On the one hand the 24-hour race of Le Mans , on the other hand a race of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS).

In 2000 Montagny stayed with DAMS in Formula 3000. With Kristian Kolby he got a new team-mate. A fourth place was his best result and he reached 15th place overall. Internally, he prevailed against Kolby with 5 to 2 points. For DAMS he also drove again in the 24-hour race of Le Mans and an ALMS race.

World Series by Nissan (2001-2003)

In 2001 , Montagny moved to Epsilon by Graff in the Open Telefónica by Nissan (World Series by Nissan). With eight wins, he won half of all races. He prevailed against Tomas Scheckter with 221 to 196 points and won the championship title. In addition, he completed for ORECA the 24-hour race at Le Mans .

In 2002 , Montagny stayed in the World Series by Nissan. He started for Racing Engineering , won four out of 18 races and was on the podium a total of ten times. With 222 to 294 points he was defeated by Ricardo Zonta and finished second overall. Within the team, he prevailed against Justin Wilson , who finished fourth with 173 points. He also completed two sports car and endurance races for ORECA. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans , he finished sixth in the top 10 for the first time. He was once on the podium in the FIA Sports Car Championship .

In 2003 , Montagny played his third season in the World Series by Nissan. Montagny started for Gabord Competición . He won nine out of 18 races and won the championship again. With 241 to 134 he won the title ahead of his teammate Heikki Kovalainen , who finished second. Montagny also took part in a Formula 1 training session for Renault for the first time as the third driver at the French Grand Prix .

Formula 1 (2004-2007)

In 2004 , Montagny became a test driver at Renault, who were not allowed to use a third driver in training this year. In 2005 , Montagny remained a test driver at Renault, who became constructors' world champions that year. He was the third driver on a Grand Prix weekend for Jordan at the European Grand Prix . In 2005 , Montagny competed in the Le Mans 24-hour race for ORECA.

Franck Montagny at the 2006 French Grand Prix

In 2006 , Montagny became a substitute driver for Super Aguri for the first races , but did not take part as the third driver in training because Super Aguri did not have a third ready-to-use car. Montagny then planned to switch to the Champ Car series at Rocketsports Racing . However, the team opted for other drivers. At the fifth Formula 1 race, the European Grand Prix , Montagny was to take part in training as the third driver for Super Aguri. However, regular driver Yūji Ide was temporarily withdrawn from the super license one day before the race due to poor performance in the first races , so that Montagny was used. He retired on his Formula 1 debut. After Ide's super license had been completely revoked, Montagny was initially confirmed as a driver alongside Takuma Satō for two more races . In the second of these races in Monaco , he managed to retract through a solid performance in the race in 16th place and beat Satō in the team's internal duel. As a result, his contract as a driver was extended by four races. After the French Grand Prix , Montagny was replaced by Sakon Yamamoto and took over the position of test and reserve driver again. He was used as the third driver in training at five other Grands Prix. In addition, Montagny drove for Pescarolo Sport in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2006 and achieved a podium finish for the first time together with Eric Hélary and Sébastien Loeb in second place.

In 2007 Montagny moved to Toyota as a Formula 1 test driver . In addition, he did test drives for Force India with a view to a cockpit for the 2008 Formula 1 season . However, there was no engagement.

Endurance race (2008–2012)

Franck Montagny in the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP at the 2008 Le Mans 24-hour race

In 2008 Montagny planned to move to North America for the Champ Car series. For Forsythe / Pettit Racing he completed two test days before the season and always achieved the best time of the day. However, there was no engagement in the series because the series ceased racing. The last Champ Car race was held as part of the IndyCar Series 2008 . In this race , Montagny finished second. However, since he did not take part in any other race, he received no points for it. During this time of year, Montagny completed four A1GP races for the French team . A fifth place was his best result. Then Montagny was active in endurance sports. For Andretti Green Racing he drove seven ALMS races. He won the LMP2 classification twice and finished this class in seventh place. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans he was given a factory cockpit at Peugeot Sport Total and came third together with Christian Klien and Ricardo Zonta .

In 2009, Montagny received a Peugeot factory cockpit for selected endurance races. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans , he finished second with Sébastien Bourdais and Stéphane Sarrazin . In the ALMS he completed two races and won one of them together with Sarrazin. In addition, Montagny took part in an IndyCar race in Sonoma for Andretti Green Racing in 2009 . In 2010, Montagny drove a race for Peugeot in the Le Mans Series , two races in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ILMC) and the 24-hour race in Le Mans . He won both ILMC races together with Sarrazin. When they won, they were also supported by Pedro Lamy . In formula racing , Montagny was active in 2010 in the Superleague Formula . He competed in twelve races for the Girondins Bordeaux team, which was managed by Barazi-Epsilon , and won a race in Jarama .

In 2011 , Montagny contested all ILMC races for Peugeot. Together with Sarrazin and Alexander Wurz , he scored a victory. Montagny was on the podium in six of seven races. Among other things, he finished third in the Le Mans 24-hour race together with Nicolas Minassian and Sarrazin . After the end of the season, Peugeot withdrew from endurance racing, so that Montagny lost his cockpit.

In 2012, Montagny won the LMP2 classification in an ALMS race for Level 5 Motorsports . He then received a short-term injury substitute for Guillaume Moreau in a cockpit at OAK Racing for the Le Mans 24-hour race , which was part of the newly founded FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). After these two races, he entered a V8 Supercars race towards the end of the year .

Formula E (2014)

After Montagny was not active in any racing series in 2013, he returned to the Andretti racing team in 2014 , which now started as Andretti Autosport . First he received a cockpit for the Grand Prix of Indianapolis in the IndyCar Series. He retired from this race. He then stayed with Andretti Autosport, but was not used in any other IndyCar races. He was signed for the newly founded FIA Formula E Championship and was to contest the full 2014/15 season for Andretti. In the first race, Beijing ePrix 2014 , he achieved a podium finish with second place. No more competed for the third race. Montagny gave health reasons for this break. A little later it became known that Montagny had tested positive for cocaine in the second race, the Putrajaya ePrix, in the doping test . Montagny was banned and decided not to test the B sample. On March 28, 2015, Montagny was subsequently disqualified and banned from the FIA ​​Anti-Doping Committee for two years.

statistics

Career stations

1994: French Formula Renault Campus (champions) 1995: French Formula Renault (4th place) 1996: French Formula Renault (6th place) 1997: French Formula 3 (4th place) 1997: British Formula 3 (18th place) 1998: French Formula 3 (2nd place) 1998: British Formula 3 1999 : Formula 3000 (12th place) 1999: ALMS , Prototype 2000 : Formula 3000 (15th place) 2000: ALMS, Prototype (40th place) 2001 : Open Telefónica by Nissan (master)

2002 : World Series by Nissan (2nd place) 2002: FIA Sports Car Championship , SR1 (15th place) 2003 : World Series by Nissan (champions) 2003 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2004 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2005 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2006 : Formula 1 (27th place) 2007 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2008 : A1GP 2008: ALMS, LMP2 (7th place) 2008 : IndyCar Series (40th place) 2009: ALMS, LMP1 (5th place)

2009 : IndyCar Series (38th place) 2010 : ILMC , LMP1 2010: Le Mans Series , LMP1 (17th place) 2010 : Superleague Formula 2011 : ILMC, LMP1 2012: ALMS, LMP2 2012 : WEC (100th place) 2012: V8 Supercars 2014 : IndyCar Series (36th place) 2015 : Formula E (16th place)

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

These statistics include all the driver's participations in the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
2006	Super Aguri Formula 1	Super Aguri SA05	Honda 2.4 V8	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	27.
total				7th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
2006
					DNF	DNF	16	18th	DNF	DNF	16

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Individual results in the IndyCar Series

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	Points	rank
2008	Forsythe / Pettit Racing	HMS	STP	MOT	LBH	KAN	INDY	Mil	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	EDM	KTY	SNM	DET	CHI	SRF	0	40.
					2
2009	Andretti Green Racing	STP	LBH	KAN	INDY	Mil	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	GOAL	EDM	KTY	MDO	SNM	CHI	MOT	HMS			12	38.
															20th
2014	Andretti Autosport	STP	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	HOU		POC	IOW	GOAL		MDO	Mil	SNM	HAIRDRYER		8th	36.
					22nd

( Legend ) Notes

1. ↑ Took place on the same day as the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
2. ↑ Took place on the same day as the Indy Japan 300.
3. ↑ No points were awarded.

Individual results in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	Points	rank
2014/15	Andretti Autosport	AT	PUT	PUN	BUE	MIA	LBH	MON	BER	MOS	LON		18th	16.
		2	DSQ	EX	EX	EX	EX	EX	EX	EX	EX	EX

( Legend )

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1998	Courage Compétition	Courage C36	Olivier Grouillard	Henri Pescarolo	Rank 15
1999	Team DAMS	Lola B98 / 10	David Terrien	Christophe Tinseau	failure	Engine failure
2000	Team DAMS	Cadillac Northstar LMP	Eric Bernard	Emmanuel Collard	Rank 19
2001	Viper Team ORECA	Chrysler LMP	Yannick Dalmas	Stéphane Sarrazin	failure	Engine failure
2002	PlayStation Team ORECA	Dallara SP1	Nicolas Minassian	Stéphane Sarrazin	Rank 6
2005	Audi Playstation ORECA	Audi R8	Jean-Marc Gounon	Stéphane Ortelli	Rank 4
2006	Pescarolo sport	Pescarolo C60	Eric Helary	Sébastien Loeb	Rank 2
2008	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Christian Klien	Ricardo Zonta	Rank 3
2009	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Sébastien Bourdais	Stéphane Sarrazin	Rank 2
2010	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Nicolas Minassian	Stéphane Sarrazin	failure	Engine failure
2011	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908	Nicolas Minassian	Stéphane Sarrazin	Rank 3
2012	OAK Racing	OAK Pescarolo	Bertrand baguette	Dominik Kraihamer	failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2009	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Stéphane Sarrazin	Sébastien Bourdais	Rank 2
2011	Peugeot Sport Total	Peugeot 908	Stéphane Sarrazin	Pedro Lamy	Rank 3

Web links

Commons : Franck Montagny  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Career statistics from Franck Montagny (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Heublein: "Super Aguri is looking for a third man: Montagny, Rossiter or Glock?" Motorsport-Magazin.com, February 25, 2006, accessed on September 14, 2014 . 
2. ^ Stephan Heublein: "Overpopulation in Force India". Motorsport-Magazin.com, November 28, 2007, accessed September 14, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Christian Nimmervoll: "Sebring: Montagny fastest on the first day of testing". Motorsport-Total.com, February 3, 2008, accessed September 14, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Christian Nimmervoll: “Sebring: Montagny outclasses the ChampCar aces!” Motorsport-Total.com, February 4, 2008, accessed on September 14, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Pete Fink: "Indy: Montagny drives for Andretti". Motorsport-Total.com, April 24, 2014, accessed May 10, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "First Andretti pilot is certain: Montagny will be there". Motorsport-Total.com, May 29, 2014, accessed May 29, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Philipp Schajer: "Formula E - Brabham replaces Montagny at Andretti". Health reasons. Motorsport-Magazin.com, December 12, 2014, accessed December 12, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Philipp Schajer: "Formula E - Scandal: Montagny convicted of cocaine consumption". Career over? Motorsport-Magazin.com, January 1, 2015, accessed January 1, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Erich Hirsch: FIA condemns Montagny, a cocaine sinner. (No longer available online.) E-Formel.de, March 28, 2015, archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.