A quick look at the F3000 champions:
1985 - Christian Danner - Raced DTM/ITC with Alfa Romeo, and Indycars in early 90's
1986 - Ivan Capelli - F1 career fizzled out in '93 (with Jordan..), nowadays occasional GT outings
1987 - Stefan Modena - F1 Career fizzled out after '92 (with Jordan..) then went to Indycars, then DTM/ITC with Alfa Romeo, then ITCC/ETCC with Alfa until 2001ish
1988 - Roberto Moreno - Went to Indycars, then back to F1, where his career fizzled out in '91 (with Jordan..) then back to Indycars, then F1 again with Forti Corse in '95, then back to Indy/CART where he was 'supersub' from 2001-2005, now an irregualr CART tester
1989 - Jean Alesi - F1 until 2001 when hsi career fizzled out (with Jordan..) then DTM until last year, nowadays in SPEEDCAR.
1990 - Erik Comas - F1 until '95 where Larrousse closed down pre-season, tested for DAMS F1 then raced in and won JGTC title twice. JGTC until 2004/5, nowadays helping his son in FBMW UK.
1991 - Christian Fittipaldi - F1 until '95 with Arrows, then CART with Newman/Haas, then NASCAR Busch series until 2003, with occasional Cup series starts, raced Brazilian stock cars, then Daytona Prototypes and for 2008 is racing in the ALMS for AGR Acura.
1992 - Luca Badoer - in F1 93/96/97 99 when his career fizzled out (with Minardi..) since has been a longterm Ferrari F1 test driver.
1993 - Oliver Panis - F1 win in 1995, in F1 until 2002 with BAR, including a stint as a highly-regarded test driver. Then sporadically raced in French GT's as well as fulfilling the Martin Brundle role on French TV.
1994 - Jean-Christophe Boullion - F1 '95 until '97 (with Sauber), then raced for Renault in BTCC in '99, nowadays a sportscar star in Le Mans/LMS races for Pescarolo having raced in the ISRS in the late 90's
1995 - Vincenzo Sospiri - Raced in Indycar briefly in mid 90's, then ISRS in Ferrari 333SP, won the championship twice and a Le Mans regular. Also raced sporadically ALMS/FIA GT's with Ferrari, Semi-retired due to long-term back injuries from ISRS sportscar racing. Also runs the Euronova team in partnership with David Sears/Supernova.
1996 - Jorg Muller - Le Mans racer with BMW, BMW test driver in 1999 using Williams-BMW test mule chassis, almost win Le Mans and ALMS in late 90's/early 2000's, subsequently ETCC/WTCC racer with Schnitzer BMW.
1997 - Ricardo Zonta - Works Mercedes sportscar racer until sacking after '99 Le Mans debacle (along with Mark Webber) F1 career with BAR, since been an F1 test driver and sporadic sportscar racer.
1998 - Juan Pablo Montoya - CART champion in 1999, runner up in 2000, F1 until 2006 with McLaren, then switched to NASCAR, winning Rookie of the year in 2007.
1999 - Nick Heidfeld - F1 with Prost/Sauber/Jordan/BMW until present
2000 - Bruno Junqueira - CART with Ganassi/Newman Haas/Dale Coyne until present.
2001 - Justin Wilson - Brief F1 stint with Jaguar, followed by CART championship until present.
2002 - Sebastian Bourdais - CART until present, winning four consecutive championships 2004-2007, F1 bound 'in '08.
2003 - Bjorn Wirdheim - Jaguar test driver for 2 years, raced in FNippon/JGTC and CART, subsequently in limbo at present
2004 - Vitantonio Liuzzi - F1 until 2007 with Red Bull/Torro Rosso, currently seeking F1 employment.
Not a bad list of talent, although there are a couple of "where are they now's"
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