Noah Monteiro
Portuguese racing driver (born 2009)
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Noah Pereira Monteiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈno.ɐ peˈɾej.ɾɐ mõˈtɐj.ɾu]; born 23 November 2009) is a Portuguese racing driver who competes in the F4 Spanish Championship for Campos Racing.
23 November 2009
- Tiago Monteiro (father)
- Diana Pereira (mother)
PortugueseNoah Monteiro | |
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| Born | Noah Pereira Monteiro 23 November 2009 Coimbra, Portugal |
| Parents |
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| Nationality | Portuguese |
| F4 Spanish Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2025 |
| Current team | Campos Racing |
| Car number | 81 |
| Starts | 24 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 3 |
| Poles | 1 |
| Fastest laps | 1 |
| Best finish | 8th in 2025 |
| Previous series | |
| Championship titles | |
| 2026 | Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter |
| Statistics up to date as of 12 April 2026. | |
Born in Coimbra, Monteiro is the son of former Formula One driver Tiago Monteiro and model Diana Pereira. He began competitive kart racing aged seven, winning several national titles and achieving podiums in the European Championship before graduating to junior formulae in 2025. After finishing eighth in Spanish F4 that year, he took his maiden F4 title in the Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship.
Early life
Noah Pereira Monteiro was born on 23 November 2009 at 00:40 WET in Coimbra, Portugal.[1][2] His father, Tiago Monteiro, is a fellow racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2005 to 2006 with Jordan and Midland before an extensive career in the World Touring Car Championship.[3][4] His mother, Diana Pereira, is a former model, rally driver, fashion designer, and motorsport broadcaster—she was named the Ford Supermodel of the World in 1997.[5][6][7] He has an older sister called Mel, who appeared on the Portuguese version of The Voice Kids.[8][9]
Monteiro was introduced to motor racing by attending his father's V8 Supercar event in Australia and first tested a go-kart by the age of five.[10][11] He had initially tried skateboarding, surfing, motocross, basketball, and fashion modelling.[12][13] His father took a relaxed approach towards his karting career, which The Race likened to the relationship of Keke and Nico Rosberg.[3] He has been partnered with automotive supplier Brose Fahrzeugteile since 2020 and studies at an economics school.[14][12] He has been mentored by 2019–20 Formula E champion António Félix da Costa, a close friend of his father.[15] He featured on the cover of GQ Portugal in October 2024, where he was interviewed by his mother.[16]
Racing career
Karting (2017–2024)
2017–2020: National champion in Portugal
Monteiro began competitive kart racing in 2017, contesting national championships in Portugal, aged seven. He finished sixth on debut in the Micro Max category of the Troféu Rotax Portugal that year—driving an FA Kart chassis—as well as claiming twelfth in the Cadete class of the Taça de Portugal.[a][18][19] He joined his father's Skywalker Young Guns development programme in 2018 and remained in Cadete,[20] where he finished thirteenth the Open de Portugal and eighth in the Portuguese Championship.[21][22] He retired from the final of the Taça de Portugal in a multi-kart collision involving Maria Germano Neto,[23][b] before claiming runner-up to her in the Troféu Bridgestone.[25][26]
Monteiro narrowly finished runner-up to Germano in the 2019 Portuguese Championship,[27] further claiming back-to-back victories at Viana do Castelo ahead of Christian Costoya on his return to the Troféu Rotax,[28][29] third in the Copa Rotax España,[30] and fifth in the Open de Portugal.[31] He opened his 2020 campaign in Juvenil with his maiden title at the Open de Portugal,[c][32] before winning the Portuguese Championship, where he had been disqualified from the fourth round before an appeal saw him claim the title.[33][34] He was further awarded the Prémio Ética by the FPAK.[d][11] He made his debut in international competition that year at the IAME Winter Cup in Valencia, claiming twentieth in X30 Mini.[35]
2021–2024: Podiums in international competition
Monteiro expanded his international career from 2021 onwards, joining Victorylane in the IAME Winter Cup and Euro Series, where he finished eighteenth and twelfth in X30 Junior, respectively.[36][37] The FPAK selected him to represent Portugal as one of the youngest drivers in the Academy Trophy,[38] finishing twenty-ninth on his CIK-FIA debut as he was disqualified from the Adria round,[39] and he closed his season with sixteenth in the International IAME Games.[40] He overcame a missed round due to a broken arm to win his second Portuguese Championship that year in the Júnior class and appeared in the IAME Series Benelux.[41][42][43] He opened 2022 with fourth at the Narciso Gil Trophy,[44] alongside further appearances in the IAME Series: thirtieth in the Winter Cup,[45] eighth in the Euro Series,[46] fourth in the Benelux Series,[47] and fifteenth in the Warriors Final;[48] he further became champion of the France Series and entered the Italian Championship.[49][50]
Joining the factory-backed Kart Republic in 2023, Monteiro progressed to OK-Junior—the premier under-15 international category.[51] On his European Championship debut, he clinched twenty-seventh overall with a tenth-placed finish at Cremona, and ended the World Championship at Franciacorta in twenty-fourth.[52][53] He additionally finished thirteenth in the IAME Winter Cup, twenty-eighth in Champions of the Future, and thirty-first in the WSK Final Cup, the latter marking his debut in the senior OK class.[52] In 2024—his final season in karting—Monteiro claimed his first pole position in the European Championship at Slovakia, ending second to Thibaut Ramaekers in both the heats and final;[54] he closed the season eighth overall.[52] He clinched fourteenth overall in Champions of the Future before retiring from the wet-weather final of the World Championship at PF International, his final appearance, after three podiums in the heats.[52][55]
Formula 4 (2025–present)
2025: Rookie season
During the AutoClássico festival on 4 October 2024, it was revealed that Monteiro would advance to junior formulae in 2025.[10] Four days later, Campos Racing announced Monteiro would join them for both the Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter and F4 Spanish Championships.[52] He first tested Formula 4 machinery at Valencia.[56] In the three-round Winter Championship, Monteiro took his first points at Jerez—where he claimed his maiden rookie podium—before scoring his only overall podium at Portimão by finishing third in race two,[57] which enabled him to finish ninth in points.[58]
In the Spanish Championship, Monteiro took pole for the season-opening round at Aragón and finished third in race one, also scoring the rookie win,[59][60] but was stripped of both after he was given a 25-second penalty for overtaking under the safety car, thus relegating him to twentieth.[61] In the following round at Navarra, Monteiro scored two rookie wins by finishing eighth and sixth in the first two races of the weekend.[62] Multiple points finishes in each the Portimão, Paul Ricard, and Jerez rounds—with season-best fourth-places in the latter two events—solidified his eighth-position overall, one point shy of Reno Francot, while he became the highest-scoring Portuguese driver in a Formula 4 season.[63][64][65] A triple points haul by Monteiro at Valencia was outmatched by a podium for Francot, leaving Monteiro now 13 points behind seventh-placed Nathan Tye.[63][66] At the season-ending Barcelona-Catalunya round, Monteiro claimed fifth in race one before dropping outside the points with twelfth from twenty-second on the race two grid, and a mechanical retirement in the third.[67] He ended the season eighth overall on 97 points—295 shy of champion Thomas Strauven—with one pole position; he finished runner-up to Ean Eyckmans in the rookies' standings.[68][67] After his rookie season, Fábio Mendes of AutoSport.pt described Monteiro as "one of the greatest hopes for [Portuguese] motorsport".[69]
2026: Maiden title in F4
Monteiro remained with Campos for his 2026 campaign in Spain and has stated his intention to fight for the title.[70][69] Opening his season in the Winter Championship at Portimão, he finished fourth—having started thirty-first following technical issues in qualifying—and second in the feature races, as well as tenth in the sprint.[71] The Jarama round saw Monteiro claim his first victories in F4, winning both features from pole position and pulling a 26-point advantage over Nathan Tye.[72] He solidified this lead with second in the opening Aragón race, before clinching the title when post-race penalties were applied to the frontrunners in the sprint; he closed his pre-season with sixth in race two. Monteiro ended the Winter Championship with two victories, poles, and fastest laps each from four podiums, winning his maiden F4 title on 116 points—35 ahead of Tye and 37 ahead of Andrej Petrović.
Karting record
Karting career summary
| Season | Series | Team | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Troféu Rotax Portugal — Micro Max | 6th | |
| Taça de Portugal — Cadete | 12th | ||
| 2018 | Open de Portugal — Cadete | 13th | |
| Portuguese Championship — Cadete | 8th | ||
| Taça de Portugal — Cadete | NC | ||
| Troféu Bridgestone — Cadete | 2nd | ||
| 2019 | Open de Portugal — Cadete | 5th | |
| Troféu Rotax Portugal — Micro Max | 11th | ||
| Copa Rotax España — Micro Max | 3rd | ||
| Portuguese Championship — Cadete | 2nd | ||
| 2020 | IAME Winter Cup — X30 Mini | Monlau Karting Team | 20th |
| Open de Portugal — Juvenil | Tiago Monteiro | 1st | |
| Portuguese Championship — Juvenil | Cabo do Mundo Karteam | 1st | |
| 2021 | IAME Winter Cup — X30 Junior | Victorylane | 18th |
| IAME Euro Series — X30 Junior | 12th | ||
| CIK-FIA Academy Trophy | FPAK | 29th | |
| IAME Series Benelux — X30 Junior | 65th | ||
| Portuguese Championship — Júnior | 1st | ||
| International IAME Games — X30 Junior | Cabo do Mundo Karteam | 16th | |
| 2022 | IAME Winter Cup — X30 Junior | Victorylane | 30th |
| Narciso Gil Trophy — X30 Junior | 4th | ||
| IAME Series France — X30 Junior | 1st | ||
| Italian Championship — X30 Junior | 21st | ||
| IAME Euro Series — X30 Junior | Victorylane | 8th | |
| IAME Series Benelux — X30 Junior | 4th | ||
| IAME Warriors Final — X30 Junior | 15th | ||
| 2023 | IAME Winter Cup — X30 Junior | KR Motorsport | 13th |
| WSK Super Master Series — OK-J | NC† | ||
| CIK-FIA European Championship — OK-J | 27th | ||
| WSK Euro Series — OK-J | NC† | ||
| Champions of the Future — OK-J | 28th | ||
| CIK-FIA World Championship — OK-J | 24th | ||
| WSK Final Cup — OK | 31st | ||
| 2024 | IAME Winter Cup — X30 Senior | Victorylane | NC |
| CIK-FIA European Championship — OK | KR Motorsport | 8th | |
| Champions of the Future — OK | 14th | ||
| CIK-FIA World Championship — OK | 18th | ||
| Source:[73][74][e] | |||
† As Monteiro was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.
Complete CIK-FIA results
Complete CIK-FIA Karting World Championship results
Complete CIK-FIA Karting European Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos | Points | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | KR Motorsport | OK-J | VAL QH 18 |
VAL SH 14 |
VAL F 36† |
TŘI QH 43 |
TŘI SH 40 |
TŘI F DNQ |
RØD QH 25 |
RØD SH 24 |
RØD F 19 |
CRE QH 17 |
CRE SH 16 |
CRE F 10 |
27th | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | KR Motorsport | OK | VAL QH 29 |
VAL SH 24 |
VAL F 27 |
ARG QH 33 |
ARG SH 29 |
ARG F 13 |
SVK QH 5 |
SVK SH 2 |
SVK F 2 |
KRI QH 10 |
KRI SH 8 |
KRI F 9 |
8th | 120 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source:[77][78] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed at least one lap.
Racing record
Racing career summary
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship | Campos Racing | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 9th |
| F4 Spanish Championship | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 8th | ||
| 2026 | Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship | Griffin Core | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 116 | 1st |
| F4 Spanish Championship | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 46* | 2nd* | ||
| Source:[73] | |||||||||
* Season still in progress.
Complete Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete F4 Spanish Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Pos | Points | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2025 | Campos Racing | ARA 1 20 |
ARA 2 4 |
ARA 3 6 |
NAV 1 8 |
NAV 2 6 |
NAV 3 Ret |
POR 1 7 |
POR 2 10 |
POR 3 5 |
LEC 1 10 |
LEC 2 Ret |
LEC 3 4 |
JER 1 5 |
JER 2 10 |
JER 3 4 |
CRT 1 8 |
CRT 2 9 |
CRT 3 10 |
CAT 1 5 |
CAT 2 12 |
CAT 3 Ret |
8th | 97 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | Griffin Core | CRT 1 3 |
CRT 2 3 |
CRT 3 3 |
POR 1 |
POR 2 |
POR 3 |
ARA 1 |
ARA 2 |
ARA 3 |
TBA 1 |
TBA 2 |
TBA 3 |
JER 1 |
JER 2 |
JER 3 |
NAV 1 |
NAV 2 |
NAV 3 |
CAT 1 |
CAT 2 |
CAT 3 |
2nd* | 46* | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source:[63] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
* Season still in progress.