Born: 24/7/76 Nationality: Portuguese Team: Midland First GP: Australia 2005 Best result: 3rd 2006 position: 21st Previous teams: N/A

Tiago Monteiro continues to do a quietly steady job for Midland.

The Portuguese is never going to be world champion, but he is proving to be a competent and reliable journeyman.

The Portuguese won his seat last year because he had substantial funding, but after a slow start he got the better of team-mate Narain Karthikeyan.

And he has continued to do well by matching new team-mate Christijan Albers - another fundamentally unknown quantity - this season.