Franck Montagny

Franck Montagny
Montagny at the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans driver parade
Nationality	French
Born	(1978-01-05) 5 January 1978 (age 39) Feurs, Loire, France
Formula E career Debut season 2014–15 Current team Andretti Autosport Car no. 27 Starts 2 Championships 0 Wins 0 Poles 0 Fastest laps 0 Best finish 16th in 2014–15 Finished last season 16th
Formula One World Championship career Active years 2006 Teams Super Aguri Entries 7 Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Career points 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First entry 2006 European Grand Prix Last entry 2006 French Grand Prix
24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 1998–2002, 2005–2006, 2008–2012 Teams Courage Compétition, DAMS, Team Oreca, Pescarolo Sport, Team Peugeot Total Best finish 2nd (2006, 2009)

Franck Montagny (born 5 January 1978) is a French professional racing driver, who is currently suspended from the sport after testing positive for a banned substance. He briefly raced for the Super Aguri Formula One team in 2006.

Born in Feurs, Loire, Montagny started racing karts there in 1988, winning the cadet class in the French Karting Championship in 1992, and the National 1 class the following year.

He made his debut in cars in 1994, aged 16, promptly winning the French Renault Campus championship. The next two years were spent in Formula Renault, with finishes in fourth (the highest-finishing rookie that year) and sixth (despite missing half the season with multiple fractures obtained in an accident at Le Mans) respectively, before transferring up to French Formula Three in 1997 with the La Filière Martini team, debuting with another fourth place championship finish.

Montagny had a breakthrough year in Formula Three in 1998, including a pole position at the Spa-Francorchamps race ahead of much more experienced drivers including Mark Webber, Luciano Burti, Enrique Bernoldi and Peter Dumbreck. He repeated the feat in the Zandvoort Masters in the Netherlands later that year, beating then German Formula Three champion Nick Heidfeld. He consistently outpaced long-time team-mate Sébastien Bourdais and ended the season with 10 wins from 22 races, including 12 pole positions, finishing the championship as runner-up behind David Saelens.