Tiago Monteiro

Tiago Monteiro

Nation:	Portugal
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	2005 Australian Grand Prix
Last start:	2006 Brazilian Grand Prix
Constructors
2005  Jordan  • 2006  Midland
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-16. ( 2005 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 37 - - -
World Cup points :	7th
Podiums :	1
Leadership laps :	-

Tiago Vagaroso da Costa Monteiro (born July 24, 1976 in Porto ) is a Portuguese racing driver . In 2005 and 2006 he took part in the Formula 1 World Championship. Monteiro last started in the WTCC for Honda .

Career

Monteiro in the Jordan at the 2005 USA Grand Prix

Tiago Monteiro testing at Silverstone 2006

In 2005 he drove for the Jordan team and achieved his first podium at the US Grand Prix in Indianapolis in 2005 with third place out of only six drivers who started. It was also the first podium for a Portuguese Formula 1 driver. In addition, no other driver has managed to complete 16 races in a row since his debut. Only Max Chilton was able to beat this record.

In the 2006 season he stayed in the team that was now called Midland F1 Racing and started at the side of Christijan Albers for the Russian debutants. Midland itself was sold to Spyker before the Chinese Grand Prix .

For the Formula 1 2007 season Monteiro had found no place. The Midland successor Spyker F1 had decided against the Portuguese and the German Adrian Sutil as the second regular driver.

Since 2007 he has been driving in the World Touring Car Championship for the Seat Sport Team. In 2008 he took his first victory in a Seat Leon TDI at the second race in Puebla. He drove for the Spanish brand until 2012, but in his final year for a private team, as Seat had withdrawn from the championship at the factory.

Monteiro has been driving for Honda since 2013 . After the second race weekend of the 2016 season at the Slovakiaring , he led the drivers' championship for the first time. This makes him the first Portuguese to have achieved this in an FIA championship.

In 2019, Monteiro, together with his driver colleagues Markus Oestreich Dominik Fugel and Cedrik Totz, won the TCR class victory for the Honda works team in a Honda Civic Type R TCR in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring.

statistics

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.
2005	Jordan Grand Prix	Jordan EJ15 / EJ15B	Toyota V10	19th	-	-	1	-	-	7th	16.
2006	Midland F1 Racing	Midland M16	Toyota RVX-06 2.4 V8	15th	-	-	-	-	-	-	22nd
	Spyker MF1			3	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				37	-	-	1	-	-	7th

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th
2005
	16	12	10	13	12	13	15th	10	3	13	17th	17th	13	15th	17th	8th	DNF	13	11
2006
	17th	13	DNF	16	12	16	15th	16	14th	DNF	DNF	DNF	9	DNF	DNF	DNF	16	15th

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1999	Paul Belmondo Racing	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Marc Rostan	Paul Belmondo	Rank 17
2001	Larbre Compétiton	Chrysler Viper GT-R	Christophe Bouchut	Jean-Philippe Belloc	Rank 20
2009	Team ORECA Matmut AIM	ORECA 01	Stéphane Ortelli	Bruno Senna	failure	Engine failure
2011	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01	Guillaume Moreau	Pierre Ragues	failure	malfunction
2015	Team ByKolles	CLM P1 / 01	Simon Trummer	Pierre Kaffer	disqualified

Web links

Commons : Tiago Monteiro  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tiago Monteiro at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Civic Type R TCR takes class victory. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .