Billy Monger
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Billy Monger (born 5 May 1999) is a British racing driver who raced in British F4 in 2016 and 2017.
He is also referred to by the nickname "Billy Whizz".
In April 2017, he was critically injured when he was involved in a collision at Donington Park.
Both of his legs were amputated.
Prior to that he was heavily involved in kart racing all over the UK and the Channel Islands, and then a successful Ginetta Junior racer. After treatment and therapy, Monger returned to competition in November 2017.
In 2018, Monger was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity.In 2019, he supplied analysis for Channel 4's F1 coverage.
He also competed in the Formula 3 based Euroformula Open championship for Carlin Motorsport.
He achieved his first single seater race win in the historic Pau Grand Prix on May 19th 2019.
Personal life
Monger is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
On 5 July 2021, it was announced Monger would present Billy Monger: Changing Gear as part of coverage of the Paralympics.
Career
When his father, a former kart racer, bought Monger his first go-kart, he got behind the wheel of a car at the age of six.
Monger with JHR Developments entered the F4 British Championship in 2016. In the championship, he earned three podiums and finished 12th. He stayed with the team through the 2017 season. Monger was seriously injured and almost died after being involved in a crash at Donington, Finland, where he crashed at high speeds into the back of Finnish driver Patrik Pasma's; as a result, both of his legs were amputated later. His left leg was amputated above the knee, leaving him with a short stump of his thigh. His right leg is longer than his left leg, and this longer stump allows him to drive modified cars. It was just three weeks before his 18th birthday. Pasma was not seriously injured in the accident.
JHR Developments' team created a JustGiving page to raise money for Monger, raising over £500,000 in the first 24 hours. A number of F1 drivers have expressed their love for Monger, including Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo, Jolyon Palmer, and Nico Hülkenberg.
Monger would return to action in November in the form of a contest between the V de V Challenge Endurance Proto in Portugal's Quadruple amputee Frédéric Sausset in round one of the V de V Challenge Endurance Proto at the Autódromo Do Estoril in Portugal, with the intention of fielding a team of three disabled drivers in the 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours. Monger returned to the track in July 2017 when he tried a Fun Cup race car with additional hand controls by disabled motorsport specialists Team BRIT at Brands Hatch, where he recovered his race licence.
For the first time since his injury, Monger tested a BRDC British Formula 3 vehicle for the Carlin team at Oulton Park in February 2018. Monger confirmed in the first meeting of the 2018 BRDC Formula 3 series at the same venue the following month. In order to participate in F3, he and his family had to petition the sport's international governing body, Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, to change their rules: the FIA decided to lift the ban in December 2017 and welcomed disabled drivers from racing single seaters as long as they passed safety inspections. He came in third at Oulton Park in a car that had been modified for him: the brake pedal was raised so he could stop using one of his leg stumps, and the throttle pedal was replaced with a lever mounted on the steering wheel.
When Monger tested a Sauber C30 at the Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby in June 2018, he rode a Formula 1 racing car for the first time. The car had been modified to match the hand controls in the Carlin BRDC British Formula 3 race he races. As part of Sky F1's coverage of the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix, a documentary film about Monger's first Formula 1 race was shown. Driven: The Billy Monger Story, Monger's Story, was produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Three in November 2018.
Monger completed "Billy's Big Challenge" in March 2021, covering a distance of 140 kilometers (230 km) by walking, kayaking, and cycling, and raising over £3 million for Comic Relief.