07 Apr 2015

Drugging ex-F1 driver booted from track

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<b>GUILTY: </b> Former Formula 1 driver Franck Montagny has been suspended for testing positive for cocaine. <em>Image: Shutterstock / Oskar Schuler </em>

PARIS, France - Former Formula 1 driver Franck Montagny has been handed a two-year suspension by the sport's governing body after testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine.

The Frenchman, 37, failed doping control in November 2014 during a Formula E race weekend in Malaysia and had been provisionally suspended since December 23 2014.

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