Former Method 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo has revealed he would contemplate a one-off look on the Le Mans 24 Hours and named his former Crimson Bull team-mate Max Verstappen as his first option to share a automobile with.
The Australian driver has not raced since his F1 exit after the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix, however throughout an look on the F1 Past the Grid, the eight-time grand prix winner mentioned he would really like the possibility to finish his racing profession on his personal phrases.
“A yr in the past, I’d have mentioned I’ll by no means put a helmet on once more. I’m carried out. That’s it. However there’s something there the place I’m like, it’d be good for me to additionally end a racing profession a bit extra on my phrases.
“So to do one thing that, after I take the helmet off, I’m smiling and completely satisfied, and possibly that’s the final little bit of closure I want.”
Daniel Ricciardo & Max Verstappen, Crimson Bull Racing
Photograph by: Andy Hone
Ricciardo mentioned a full season nonetheless didn’t enchantment to him, however {that a} one-off outing at Le Mans was one thing he might see himself doing. A part of the enchantment for the previous Crimson Bull driver is sharing a automobile along with his team-mates, somewhat than competing in opposition to them as rivals in F1.
“To share a automobile with different drivers and to really have actual team-mates to share information and assist out,” he continued. “I’d simply take pleasure in it. It will be the type of driving and companionship that I’d actually take pleasure in.”
Requested who he would like to share a automobile with within the endurance race, Ricciardo added: “I don’t need to put strain on him, however clearly Max is a reputation that might be excessive on the checklist.
“We talked about Crimson Bull clearly in 2018 and ‘what if’, and I used to be making an attempt to get again on the workforce on the finish of my profession. So possibly that’s a means that we might, yeah, I say give the folks what they need.”
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