F1 drivers' activities after retiring

Fish88 · PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 7:46 pm

Wasn't that a gift?

http://jalopnik.com/5105716/dubai-princ ... schumacher

codename_47 · PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:12 pm

Amongst everything else, Jackie Stewart became head of the BRDC, fell out with Bernie and between the two of them they nearly lost us the British Grand Prix due to their egos

Then Damon Hill replaced Jackie and repaired a lot of that damage.

Martin Brundle and Mark Blundell launched a driver manager company that looked after the careers of Coulthard, amongst others.
Not quite sure if it's still going tbh, I remember reading Martin might have had to give it up in favour of his media commitments.

Alain Prost took on a role as a villain in a Blockbuster Movie

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:25 pm

I remember another one

Pedro Diniz after retiring promoted F-Renault in Brazil and then quit to have an organic farm

Fish88 · PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 2:54 am

Jos Verstappen became a proffesional boxer.

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 6:15 am

Nelson Piquet lives in Brazilia. Helped develop a engine for his other son, Geraldo, race in the Truck series. And has developed and sold a truck tracker for logistics companies that have thousands of trucks around Brazil, a country with not much other way of transportation than by road.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 6:22 pm

Soul Reaver wrote:

Nelson Piquet lives in Brazilia. Helped develop a engine for his other son, Geraldo, race in the Truck series. And has developed and sold a truck tracker for logistics companies that have thousands of trucks around Brazil, a country with not much other way of transportation than by road.

and he nowadays only give interviews saying that Autotrac got him a higher income than F1 did

before that he used to advertise a food brand with Rubens Barrichello

James B · PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:50 pm

codename_47 wrote:

Martin Brundle and Mark Blundell launched a driver manager company that looked after the careers of Coulthard, amongst others.
Not quite sure if it's still going tbh, I remember reading Martin might have had to give it up in favour of his media commitments.

Blundell still runs a management company. It's called MB Partners. Theo Paphitis is the chairman. It looks after young footballers and golfers as well as drivers (Paffett and Conway the most notable; both were 2MB drivers back in the day iirc). They also are involved in sports marketing and look after the commercial rights of Kimi, Pavel Pogrebnyak and Louise Hazell. So quite a lot going on

http://www.markblundellpartners.com/

Incidentally Schumacher was doing some horse riding before his accident, as that's what Corinna was doing - some kind of dressage thing. One of the last interviews he did last year was related to it

amq55 · PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 10:30 pm

James B wrote:

Incidentally Schumacher was doing some horse riding before his accident, as that's what Corinna was doing - some kind of dressage thing. One of the last interviews he did last year was related to it

Certainly nothing international or big, at least the equestrian federation doesn't have any record of them. (didn't think they would, but since the access to the database is easy, might as well check)

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:32 pm

Typical that it was dressage, as if Schumacher hadn't won enough in his career from a prancing horse....

I thank you. :wave:

StanV · PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:56 am

JJ wrote:

kals wrote:

I thought he was in jail?

Nah, there wasn't enough evidence that it was Lehto who drove the boat at the time of the crash in which his friend was killed. In his own words he was passed out on the floor of the boat.

DSC coincidentally interviewed him recently. Nothing about legal things though

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2014/08/0 ... eyond.html

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