Noah Monteiro
Noah Pereira Monteiro is a Portuguese racing driver who competes in the F4 Spanish Championship for Campos Racing.
Born in Coimbra, Monteiro is the son of former Formula One driver Tiago Monteiro and model. He began competitive kart racing aged seven, winning several national titles before graduating to junior formulae in 2025.
Early life
Monteiro was born on 23 November 2009 at 00:40 WET in Coimbra, Portugal. His father, Tiago Monteiro, is a fellow racing driver who competed in Formula One from to with Jordan and Midland before an extensive career in the World Touring Car Championship. His mother,, is a former model, rally driver, fashion designer, and motorsport broadcaster—she was named the Ford Supermodel of the World in 1997. He has an older sister called Mel, who is a musician.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. He had initially tried skateboarding, surfing, motocross, basketball, and fashion modelling. His father took a relaxed approach towards his karting career, which The Race contrasted to the relationship of Keke and Nico Rosberg. He featured on the cover of GQ Portugal in October 2024 alongside the Driver Era, where he was interviewed by his mother. He has been partnered with Brose Fahrzeugteile since 2020 and studies economics.
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. He joined his father's "Skywalker Young Guns" programme in 2018, remaining in Cadete as he finished thirteenth the Open de Portugal and eighth in the Portuguese Championship. He retired from the final of the Taça de Portugal in a multi-kart collision involving Maria Germano Neto, before claiming runner-up to her in the Troféu Bridgestone.Monteiro narrowly finished runner-up to Germano in the 2019 Portuguese Championship, further claiming back-to-back victories at Viana do Castelo ahead of Christian Costoya on his return to the Troféu Rotax, third in the Copa Rotax España, and fifth in the Open de Portugal. He opened his 2020 campaign in Juvenil with his maiden title at the Open de Portugal, before winning the Portuguese Championship, where he had been disqualified from the fourth round before an appeal saw him claim the title. He was further awarded the Prémio Ética by the. He made his debut in international competition that year at the IAME Winter Cup in Valencia, claiming twentieth in X30 Mini.
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. The FPAK selected him to represent Portugal as the youngest driver in the Academy Trophy, finishing twenty-ninth on his CIK-FIA debut as he was disqualified from the Adria round, and he closed his season with sixteenth in the International IAME Games. He won his second Portuguese Championship that year in the Júnior class and appeared in the IAME Series Benelux. He opened 2022 with fourth at the Narciso Gil Trophy, alongside further appearances in the IAME Series: thirtieth in the Winter Cup, eighth in the Euro Series, fourth in the Benelux Series, and fifteenth in the Warriors Final; he further became national champion of the France Series and entered the Italian Championship.Joining the factory-backed Kart Republic in 2023, Monteiro progressed to OK-Junior—the premier under-15 international category. On his European Championship debut, he clinched twenty-seventh with a tenth-placed finish at Cremona and ended the World Championship at Franciacorta twenty-fourth. 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. 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; he closed the season eighth overall. He clinched fourteenth 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.
Formula 4 (2025–present)
2025
During the AutoClássico festival on 4 October 2024, it was revealed that Monteiro would step up to Formula 4 competition in 2025. Four days later, Campos Racing announced Monteiro was joining them for both the 2025 [Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship|Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship] and F4 Spanish Championships. He first tested F4 machinery at Valencia. 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, which enabled him to finish ninth in points.In the main championship, Monteiro took pole for the season-opening round at Aragón and finished third in race one, also scoring the rookie win, but was stripped of both after he was given a 25-second penalty for overtaking under the safety car, thus relegating him to 20th. In the following round at Navarra, Monteiro scored two rookie wins by finishing eighth and sixth in the first two races of the weekend. In the following five rounds, Monteiro scored points all but five times and scoring a best result of fourth twice to end the year eighth in points.