🇵🇹 Tiago Monteiro

Tiago Monteiro is a professional driver, FIA Gold-graded, who spent his career primarily in touring car racing. He competed across 24 seasons from 1998 to 2024, logging 389 starts across multiple series. His main tenure was in the World Touring Car Championship with Castrol Honda WTC Team, where he contested 241 races between 2007 and 2017, taking 12 wins and 44 podiums. He also raced in the FIA World Touring Car Cup from 2018 to 2022, latterly for Liqui Moly Team Engstler, scoring 2 wins and 4 podiums across 80 starts. He contested Formula 1 in 2005 and 2006 for Spyker MF1, earning a podium finish in 37 appearances.[1]

His record outside touring cars included a single outing in the FIA GT Championship endurance series in 2001, where he took a podium, and early-career attempts at single-seater racing: 12 starts in International Formula 3000 in 2002, eight appearances in Formula 3 Macau from 1998 to 2001, and one IMSA Pilot Challenge start in 2022. Later in his career he contested endurance races at the Nürburgring, winning the 24 Hours twice across four starts from 2019 to 2024 while also competing in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie. His final season was 2022 in the World Touring Car Cup, finishing 18th in the championship standings.[2]

Monteiro was a consistent operator in touring car fields that included regular rivals in both Robert Huff, the 2012 World Touring Car Champion, and Tom Coronel, with whom he raced closely across multiple series and seasons. He finished ahead of Thed Björk, the 2017 World Touring Car Champion and an established professional who raced the FIA World Touring Car Cup and TCR World Tour, on 31 occasions. In Formula 1, he shared the Spyker MF1 grid with established professionals and earned a podium, including a finish ahead of Nick Heidfeld, a former Formula 3000 champion and Platinum-graded driver with significant runs in Formula 1 and Formula E.