“I really love this track,” says Franck Montagny of the Jerez circuit in southern Spain. “I remember my chief engineer in Renault’s test team was always saying ‘if there was a championship of 15 races in Jerez, you are world champion every year’.”
The Frenchman never raced at the track he picks out as his favourite, but relished every time he got to drive it testing Formula 1 machinery between 2002 and 2007. That’s just as well, because he completed just shy of 5,000 laps of the circuit for Renault, Toyota and Force India, including 2,312 tours across 22 days in 2005 alone.
