It's been almost a year since Tiago Monteiro suffered the testing accident that forced him to miss the end of the 2017 World Touring Car Championship season.
In the first few weeks following the crash there were noises from the ex-Formula 1 racer's camp that he was targeting a return at the next round or the one after that. But in reality, the man who led the championship by 12 points prior to the accident was facing a battle to live a normal life, never mind get back behind the steering wheel.
When the brakes failed in his Honda Civic as he attempted to decelerate from around 160mph for the first corner of Barcelona's Catalunya circuit, on his final run during a three-day test, the 11-time WTCC race winner was pitched into the barriers with huge force.
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