page_title: Franck Montagny
section_title: Super Aguri
hierarchical_section_title: Franck Montagny / Formula One / Super Aguri
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Pescarolo C60 - Judd, essais préliminaires 24 heures du Mans 2006, Dimanche 4 juin 2006. English: Franck Montagny driving a Pescarolo C60 - Judd at a testsession on 4th june 2006 before 24 hours of Le Mans 2006. Deutsch: Franck Montagny fährt einen Pescarolo C60 - Judd beim Vortest am Sonntag den 4. Juni 2006 vor dem 24-Stunden-Rennen von Le Mans 2006.
context_page_description: Franck Montagny is a retired French professional racing driver. He briefly raced for the Super Aguri Formula One team in 2006.
context_section_description: For 2006, Super Aguri took  Montagny on as third driver; however, he was promoted to full race driver in May after it was announced that Yuji Ide was to drop back into testing; Ide was demoted at the behest of the governing body who considered him insufficiently experienced for Formula One. Montagny hence competed in his first Grand Prix, the 2006 European Grand Prix on 7 May, qualifying last and retiring with a hydraulics problem. He did not finish his second race 2006 Spanish Grand Prix: after a great start, enabling him to gain 3 positions, he retired on lap 10 with a mechanical failure. It was third time lucky for him at the Monaco Grand Prix, when he finished the 78-lap race in 16th place, three laps behind the leader.
  During the break between the British Grand Prix and the Canadian Grand Prix, Montagny was able to participate in the Le Mans 24 Hours, finishing second for Pescarolo Sport behind only the dominating Audi factory R10s.  He was the first active Formula One driver to also participate at Le Mans in the same year since Bertrand Gachot in 1994.
  On 12 July, Super Aguri announced that Sakon Yamamoto would replace him from the German Grand Prix onwards. Montagny did not appear in his role as third driver for the next two weekends as only two Super Aguri SA06s were available but a third chassis was prepared during the summer break enabling him to reprise this role at the Turkish Grand Prix.
caption: Montagny driving for Pescarolo Sport during practice for the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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