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Had his F1 career not happened to coincide with one of the most freakish - in all senses of the word - Grands Prix ever held, Tiago Monteiro's place in F1 history could have been very different.
There had been occasions in the past when a Jordan was a car that a young driver could use to make an impression, as Michael Schumacher demonstrated. But 2005 - the team's final year in the sport - was not one of them.
Jordan was not the only team with its back to the wall at the time, and the first part of the season had passed with Eddie Jordan's squad and Minardi tottering around at the back, largely unnoticed by another other than friends and family.
