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Formula 1 controllers forgotten: What happened to these guest corridors of FP1?

Read more: from records to the winners from below: 8 pilots who enjoyed success after leaving F1

Satoshi Motoyama – Jordan, 2003

Motoyama is among the most successful pilots in the history of Japanese motor racing, after having won Super GT titles in 2003/04 and 2008, and super formula championships (then Nippon formula) in 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2005.

Motoyama, who was already just over 30 years old, had an excursion for Jordan in Suzuka at the end of 2003, but that did not lead anywhere in the long term, although in a similar way it did not arise from a postseason test for Renault. He continued running in his native Japan at 50 and only moved away from a full -time Super GT in 2021.

Ryan Briscoe – Toyota, 2004

Ricardo Zonta fulfilled the tasks of the third pilot for Toyota in 2004, but when he took a step forward to replace Cristiano da Matta in the middle of the season, fellow Tester Ryan Briscoe assumed his role. Briscoe, then the current European champion of Formula 3, participated in practice sessions in six Grands Prix for Toyota, more prominently caught attention when a puncture caused a great accident in Belgium.

Briscoe could not get an F1 seat for 2005 and, on the other hand, diverted in the United States, taking eight Indycar victories, a pole Indy 500 and a better one in the third in the classification. It has also been a hand in Sportscars, with three 24 -hour Daytona class victories and a general victory in 2020, and more recently joined the incipient Indycar project of Prema as its sports advisor.