Countdown to WTCR’s High Five with Tiago Monteiro

Season five of the WTCR − FIA World Touring Car Cup is also Tiago Monteiro’s 11th in a row with Honda power. Having recovered from the bacterial chest infection that forced him to miss last season’s finale, the Portuguese, 45, starts 2022 with a new team, LIQUI Moly Team Engstler, but the same long-term team-mate, Attila Tassi, while his Goodyear-equipped Honda Civic Type R TCR is also tried and tested. This is what the former Formula One podium finisher has had to say ahead going racing at Circuit de Pau-Ville from May 7-8.

Ad/> On recovery from illness…“My recovery has gone very well. I had the whole month of December off, really relaxing as much as possible and recovering slowly. By January I was able to start pushing my body and its limits a little bit more.

Already that was going well − I still felt a little bit more tired than usual, but nothing more than that − and by mid-February I was completely back to normal. It’s never nice to miss any racing but with hindsight, it was good that it happened at the end of the season so I had the winter to recover. But that period is almost forgotten about now.” WTCRCoronel “more than happy” to take Max Verstappen’s #33 for WTCR 20228 HOURS AGO On teaming up with Tassi (again)…“To continue with Attila is great.

We got on very well from the beginning, we are really close, and we work well together. He's always been quick, but he is younger and at the beginning perhaps was a bit more raw. But now he's nearly there all the time.