 Twenty-five years later, at the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix, McLaren chairman Ron Dennis was reintroduced to Schlesser.Dennis said, "This is the man who ruined my life and our perfect record back in 1988.” Schlesser responded saying that "what happened that day at Monza kept you hungry…"

The mid-1980s saw Schlesser perform in touring cars and sports cars, winning the French Touring Car Championship in 1985 with a TWR Rover Vitesse, as well as driving the works TWR Jaguars in the World Sportscar Championship.In 1986 he raced in the British Touring Car Championship, again in a TWR Rover Vitesse.