In this section, we can talk about ex-drivers and explain where they are now or what they are doing. For example, Michael Andretti is running his own IndyCar team, Johnny Herbert and Allan McNish are racing Sportscars while Gerhard Berger owns a 50% stake in Toro Rosso.

Let's remember the drivers that were killed while driving an F1 car, either during testing or a race weekend:

Raymond Sommer September 10, 1950
Chet Miller May 15, 1953
Carl Scarborough May 30, 1953
Charles de Tornaco September 18, 1953
Onofre Marimón July 31, 1954
Manny Ayulo May 16, 1955
Bill Vukovich May 30, 1955
Eugenio Castellotti March 14, 1957
Keith Andrews May 15, 1957
Pat O'Connor May 30, 1958
Luigi Musso July 6, 1958
Peter Collins August 3, 1958
Stuart Lewis-Evans September 19, 1958
Jerry Unser May 17, 1959
Bob Cortner May 19, 1959
Ivor Bueb August 1, 1959
Harry Schell May 13, 1960
Chris Bristow[2] June 19, 1960
Alan Stacey June 19, 1960
Giulio Cabianca February 17, 1961
Wolfgang von Trips[3] September 10, 1961
Ricardo Rodríguez[4] November 1, 1962
Carel Godin de Beaufort August 2, 1964
John Taylor August 7, 1966
Lorenzo Bandini May 7, 1967
Bob Anderson August 14, 1967
Mike Spence May 7, 1968
Jo Schlesser July 7, 1968
Gerhard Mitter August 2, 1969
Piers Courage June 7, 1970
Jochen Rindt September 5, 1970
Jo Siffert October 24, 1971
Roger Williamson July 29, 1973
François Cevert October 7, 1973
Peter Revson March 30, 1974
Helmut Koinigg October 6, 1974
Mark Donohue August 19, 1975
Tom Pryce March 5, 1977
Ronnie Peterson September 11, 1978
Patrick Depailler August 1, 1980
Gilles Villeneuve May 8, 1982
Riccardo Paletti June 13, 1982
Elio de Angelis May 15, 1986
Roland Ratzenberger April 30, 1994
Ayrton Senna May 1, 1994

Also drivers such as Alberto Ascari, Michele Alboreto and others who have previously driven in F1 and were killed while racing other cars

Just to get the ball rolling:

Alain Prost:

Became a consultant to McLaren after leaving Williams in 1993 before buying over the Ligier team in 1997. After 4 years his team went bust in 2001 and now takes part in Andros ice race series in France, winning the title in 2006/2007

Mika Hakkinen- Now races in the DTM series and works with Johnny Walker, sponsor of mclaren to promote safe drinking.

Derek Warwick - raced in BTCC, then went to Austraila to form a V8 supercar team and a car dealership. Raced in apparently defunct Grand Prix Master sereis

Whatever happened to- Luciano Burti?

After a nasty accident at the belgian GP, he became a Ferrari Test driver, then went to America to do Champcars, then promptly disappeared.

This is from Wikipedia:

Luciano Pucci Burti (born in São Paulo, March 5, 1975) is a Brazilian racing driver who briefly raced in Formula One.

His early career saw him graduate through the usual channels and he found himself in British Formula 3 driving for the crack Stewart Racing team. In his second season of F3 in 1999 he finished runner-up to Marc Hynes, but it was third-placed Jenson Button who would go on to achieve stardom in F1. Burti impressed when testing the Stewart grand prix car that season and became Jaguar's tester for 2000, mainly down to the lobbying of Jackie Stewart, the outgoing team-boss.

A surprise grand prix debut came on July 16, 2000, at the Austrian Grand Prix, as a replacement for the injured Eddie Irvine. Having tested consistently well for Jaguar in the 2000 Formula One season and with a race start already under his belt, he was promoted to the race team alongside Irvine in 2001, replacing Johnny Herbert. However, after just four races, he fell out of favour and was replaced by ex-Arrows driver Pedro de la Rosa.

Luckily Burti found a seat at Prost, where the underperforming Gastón Mazzacane had been sacked. Burti raced competently for Prost and recorded his highest finish - eighth place - at the Canadian Grand Prix. There was also the odd time when he would qualify ahead of team-mate Alesi. However, a spectacular accident at the German Grand Prix, where he collided with the hobbled Ferrari of Michael Schumacher which launched his car to destruction, and then a horror crash at the Belgian Grand Prix later on in the year saw him having to sit out the rest of the season with facial brusing and concussion. His seat was taken by Czech rookie Tomas Enge.

Burti subsequently signed to test for the Ferrari team, but that came to an end at the end of his contact in 2004. Over the course of his Formula One career, he scored no championship points, and the odds of him making a Grand Prix comeback are not promising. He has since returned to Brazil, where he competes in Stock Car Brasil.

cheers. some real blasts from the past there! Marc Hynes, a talented guy who should ahve made it!

Toranosuke (Tora) Takagi:

Raced for Tyrrell in their final season in 1998 before joining Arrows in 1999. He then moved to Formula Nippon in 2000 with Satoru Nakajima's team before trying his hand in ChampCar in 2001 and 2002. He switched over to IRL in 2003 but after a disappointing time in IRL he left in 2005 and re-joined Formula Nippon, where he is part-owner of the Takagi Planning with CERUMO team

Yuji Ide. What's the legend up to this season? :D

Henri Pescarolo is one of my favourites from the 1970s. I guess many folk will know what he is doing now, but Wikipedia give some details of what he did as driver:

Henri Pescarolo

Marc Hynes is doing Porsche Supercar this year.

By the look of that photo, impressions of Bluto from Popeye!!!

<roflmao>

Esteban Tuero and Norberto Fontana both race in Argentine Touring Cars.

In July 2006 it was announced that Ide would be racing for Team Dandelion Racing in the final six rounds of the Formula Nippon championship, with the aim of increasing his racing experience.[2]

In 2007, he has remained in Formula Nippon with the Autobacs Racing Team Aguri team [14], which is owned by Aguri Suzuki[15]. As of June 20, he has no points, with a best finish of 10th at Suzuka Circuit [16].

Wikipedia - Yuji Ide

He has 6 points now, I looked on the Formula Nippon website yesterday :D Just shows how good he is. Legend.

Bertrand Gachot:

Began his F1 career with Onyx before moving onto Coloni in 1990. He joined Jordan in 1991, before being jailed in August that year for spraying a London taxi driver with CS gas. On his release, he joined Larrouse for the end of the 1991 season and the whole of the 1992 season. After a year's absense, he returned to F1 in 1994 with Pacific, where he was part-owner, and remained with the team until the end of 1995.

After F1, Gachot still raced in sportscars for a while before retiring from motorsport all together and getting involved in the marketing of 'Hype', an energy drink, before he became involved in the running of an F1 website

Gerhard Berger:

Drove for AGS and Arrows before being signed for the new Benetton team in 1986. Took his first victory with the team at Mexico before later driving for Ferrari (twice) and McLaren before re-joining Benetton in 1996. Took his last victory in 1997 at Germany before retiring at the end of that season.

Was appointed as the Competitions Director of BMW in 1998 and overseen the marque's Le Mans victory in 1999 before their return to F1 in 2000. He left BMW in 2003 but in February 2006 he bought a 50% stake of Toro Rosso and now runs the team alongside Franz Tost

ARTURO MEZARIO

Seems "Marlboro Man" aka "the bane of my life" is still going strong doing sportscar racing.

Arturo raced for Ferrari in the 1970s and was first on the scene at Niki Lauda's horrific accident.

I first met him about 14 years ago and his first comment was "would you like to come out to dinner with me?". I met him several times after that and he always asked me out for dinner. I never went. Even I'm not that foolish! <roflmao>

Also it is worth noting that Gachot's prison sentance actually paved the way for Schumacher's debut.

Jean Alesi:

After a brilliant junior career, Alesi was given his break in the top formula at the French GP with Tyrrell in 1989 while contesting the F3000 championship with Eddie Jordan Racing. He managed to contest for Tyrrell in all but one race for the rest of the season, while winning the F3000 crown. He joined Ferrari in 1991 to team up with Alain Prost, but it wasn't to be a success.

In 5 years with the Scuderia, he only won one race and joined Benetton in 1996. After two years there, he moved onto Sauber before joining former team-mate Prost's team in 2000. Their relationship soured and his career went full circle when he joined Jordan for the last few races of 2001. At the end of the season he announced his retirement from F1

After F1 he joined Mercedes in the DTM, taking four victories in 5 years before retiring from racing for good in 2006 to run his vineyard in his home town of Avignon in the south of France. He was also a major player for Direxiv in their attempts to enter F1 in 2008, but they lost out to Prodrive.

Nicola Larini:

Made his F1 debut in 1987 with Coloni before moving to Osella for 1988. He then moved to Ligier in 1990 but it was the wrong move at the wrong time at Ligier were struggling. A move to Modena in 1991 didn't see any better luck and he took up the position as Ferrari tester for 1992, even standing in for the Italian team when Capelli was fired before the end of the season.

He got another chance to race for Ferrari in 1994 when Jean Alesi injured himself in testing. He scored his best career result of second at the 1994 San Marino GP, but this was overshadowed by the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna. He returned to F1 full-time in 1997 with Sauber, but despite scoring a point on his debut for the team he was sacked after 5 races

Since then he has raced successfully in touring cars, originally with Alfa Romeo in the ETCC, before switching to Chevrolet for the newly-formed WTCC in 2005. While testing for Ferrari, he also won the Italian Touring Car Championship in 1992, and followed this up with the German Touring Car Championship (now DTM) in 1993

Christian Fittipaldi:

The son of Wilson Fittipaldi and nephew of double world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, Christian drove for Minardi during the 1992 and 1993 season before switching to Arrows in 1994. He switched to ChampCars in 1995 and took Rookie of the Year at that year's Indy 500. However his ChampCar career was to be punctured by two broken legs, and he decided to switch to NASCAR in 2001.

After several 'temporary' drives in 2001 and 2002, Petty Enterprises snapped him up to drive for them in 2003. However after one season, in which he struggled, he moved to sportscars for 2004, before returning home and racing in the Brazilian Stockcar Championship in 2005. He has also appeared from Brazil's A1GP team during the 2006-2007 season.

Pedro Diniz was last seen promoting FRenault in South America:

http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/drv-dinped.html

that's actually wrong

he left the IRL in 2004

He actually did ok in 2003, he got a 5th place at Indy and he got a podium finish in another race but in 2004 his team downsized to one car and it cost them dearly and Takagi just faded out

When Takagi left the IRL, so did his team and long time owner Mo Nunn