A career in racing driving is a fast and furious sport with many professional drivers with all of the adrenaline associated during the thrill of the track but what happens to you when you reach the end of your long a prosperous career?
We thought it might be a good idea to take a look at some of the top five drivers that took off their racing gloves and what kind of things they chose to do with themselves after all of that full on living.
Looking at some of the choices they decided upon we found these guys to take a quick look at what they decided to do following their long professional careers.
Starting with Brian Gubby who was born on the 17th of April 1934 in Epsom, Surrey. The former racing driver and British racehorse trainer from Bagshot, Surrey, England. The racing driver, Gubby briefly competed in Formula One during the 1960s. Brian has spent many years as a horse race trainer and this was always his passion being the son of a jockey.
He even rode in the Grand National.
The most successful horse he trained to date is the sprinter Gabitat, winner of ten races including the Group 3 Duke of York Stakes at York in 1984, and the Group 3 Goldene Peitsche at Baden-Baden in 1984 and 1985.
Juan Manuel Fangio’s well-known relationship with Mercedes-Benz led him to win two of the 5 world championships and after leaving the professional arena he continued on long after with the Mercedes-Benz team in another form. He opened his own dealership in his hometown of Balcarce and in 1974 he was given the position of President Mercedes-Benz Argentina.
Driving cars for a living seems to be the logical choice for some of the others after a life in after F1. With six Grand Prix under his belt, Tony Brooks who was a rival of Fangio’s bought and ran his own Ford garage next to the former Brooklands circuit near London.
Thierry Boutsen was a three-time Grand Prix winner. his illustrious relationship with expensive machinery did not end when he put down his gloves from Formula One in 1993. Following in his love for the finer things in life he opted to move into selling planes as he had amassed a fortune during his years on the track.
The Belgian driver had previously owned and sold aeroplanes he had bought topping the option to move into aviation in a big way.
In 1997 together with his wife, they started their own company, Boutsen Aviation. Today they sold more than 250 planes of all kinds including corporate jets and even helicopters with the pair building up sales in the company with total sales now exceeding $1 billion.