里卡多或考虑勒芒复出，可能搭档维斯塔潘
八次大奖赛冠军丹尼尔·里卡多表示，他可能对勒芒等不需要整季投入的参赛机会感兴趣，并提到或许会与马克斯·维斯塔潘搭档。
为什么丹尼尔·里卡多会考虑在勒芒复出
丹尼尔·里卡多自F1生涯结束后一直未参赛，但他可能会考虑在勒芒重返赛场——或许与马克斯·维斯塔潘一起？
截至今日，距离丹尼尔·里卡多上一场赛车比赛已过去两个月，这位八次大奖赛冠军得主带着遗憾、低调地告别了F1——但他的职业生涯结束了吗？
里卡多承认很可能已经结束，他已接受自己的F1生涯以那样的方式收尾——“我还没有100%释怀，但已经到了90%，”他在谈到自己寻求释怀的过程时说——但他仍可能对进一步的机会感兴趣，只要这些机会不需要整季的投入。
里卡多在接受《Beyond The Grid》播客采访时表示：“一年前，我会说‘我再也不会戴上头盔了，我受够了，就这样吧’。但内心深处有个声音告诉我，如果能以更符合自己意愿的方式结束赛车生涯，那会很好；去做一些当我摘下头盔时，能让我面带微笑、感到快乐的事情。也许那才是我需要的最后一点了结。”
“想到要跑完整一个赛季，听起来仍然没那么令人兴奋。大概是一次性的比赛，比如一次性的勒芒。”
“F1太自私了——以一种必要的方式。是的，你有队友，但那是你的第一个对手，诸如此类。我认为和其他车手共享一辆赛车，真正拥有可以分享数据、互相帮助的队友，我觉得那会——尤其是现在，在那个疯狂的火焰和那种冷酷已经某种程度上消退的阶段。我想我只会享受它。那会是我真正享受的驾驶形式和陪伴感，我觉得它会让我微笑，让我再次对竞争的艺术感到美好。”
里卡多解释说，他其实从来都不太享受驾驶本身，更多是沉醉于竞争，尽管他在F1的最后几年消磨了他的热情。勒芒可能是找到满足感的新途径，但这位澳大利亚车手——他已经不再像以前那样训练了——对这一前景持谨慎态度。
“我需要再次打开那个盒子吗？我不知道，”里卡多沉思道。“这就是为什么我没有匆忙对任何事情做出决定，因为，再次强调，我想确保我不是为了自尊或为了某种童话般的结局而做。它必须是因为它真正在我内心，我真的想做，而不是为了取悦他人。
“我不会撒谎，我内心有一部分很想为了所有多年来关心、支持和爱我的人去做，也为了那些讨厌它结束方式的人。所以，是的，我内心确实有一部分是为车迷感到的，但显然它必须首先是为了我自己和我的理由。
“这就是困难的部分——它会打开那个盒子吗？我不认为会；就像我说的，我对一切更加平静了，但话说回来，我在骗谁呢？我去勒芒只是为了去比赛并仅仅为在那里而高兴，还是我去那里是为了尝试获胜？
“尽管我很想说，‘哦，就开心点，就沉浸在体验中’，我们都知道一旦头盔戴上就不一样了。我不能否认我想去并认真地做这件事。而这也许也是我需要理解的事情——我的心在其中吗？”
里卡多-维斯塔潘-维特尔三人组？
当谈到里卡多梦想与之共享这份情谊的车手时，其他红牛标志性人物浮现了出来。
“我不想给他压力，但显然马克斯（维斯塔潘）是一个会高居名单前列的名字。我们显然在2018年谈过红牛，还有如果怎样、如果怎样；我当时想在职业生涯末期回到车队，所以也许那是我们能给人们他们想要的东西的一种方式，”里卡多笑着说。
维斯塔潘已公开表示未来对勒芒感兴趣，采访者汤姆·克拉克森建议这对组合可以加入塞巴斯蒂安·维特尔，后者在2024年测试了保时捷的Hypercar挑战者，但尚未参加这项法国经典赛事。
“哎呀，真是让我大吃一惊！”里卡多惊呼道。
“无可否认，他依然极其快速，开任何车都会很快。我真是太喜欢塞布了，所以那可能会是一场不错的小小红牛重聚。”
英文原文
Why Daniel Ricciardo would consider a comeback at Le Mans
Daniel Ricciardo has been out of action since the end of his F1 career, but he might contemplate returning to racing at Le Mans – perhaps with Max Verstappen?
Last month marked two years since Daniel Ricciardo’s last motor race to this day, as the eight-time grand prix winner regretfully, discreetly bowed out of Formula 1 – but is his career over?
Ricciardo admits it likely is, having come to terms with the way his F1 stint ended – “I’m not 100% there, but I’m 90%,” he said of his quest of closure – but he might still be interested in further opportunities, as long as they don’t require a season-long commitment.
“A year ago, I would have said, ‘I will never put a helmet on again, I’m done, that’s it’,” Ricciardo told the Beyond The Grid podcast. “But there is something there where I’m like, it would be nice to finish a racing career a bit more on my terms; to do something that, when I take the helmet off, I’m smiling and happy. Maybe that’s the last bit of closure I need.
“The thought of doing a full championship still doesn’t really sound that exciting. Probably a one-off, like a one-off Le Mans.
“F1 is so selfish – in a necessary way. Yes, you have team-mates, but that’s your first opponent and all that. I think to share a car with other drivers and to actually have real team-mates to share data and help out, I think it would be – especially now, at this point where that insane fire and whatever ruthlessness, that has faded to a degree. I think I’ll just enjoy it. It would be the form of driving and kind of companionship that I would really enjoy, and I think it would make me smile and feel good about the art of competition again.”
Ricciardo explained he never enjoyed driving all that much and mostly revelled in competition, though his last few years in F1 dampened his enthusiasm. Le Mans could be a new way to find fulfillment, but the Australian – who hasn’t been training the way he used to – is cautious about that prospect.
“Do I need to open the box again? I don’t know,” Ricciardo pondered. “That’s why I haven’t rushed into making a decision on anything, because, again, I want to make sure I’m not doing it for ego or for some fairy-tale ending. It has to be because it’s right inside me and I really want to do it, and it’s not to please others.
“I’m not going to lie, there’s a part of me which would love to do it for all the people that cared and supported and loved me over the years and also hated the way it ended. So, yes, there is certainly a part of me which feels for the fans, but it has obviously to be for me and my reasons first and foremost.
“That’s the hard part – would it open the box? I don’t think it will; as I said, I’m much more at peace with everything, but then, who am I kidding? Would I go to Le Mans just to go and compete and just be happy to be there, or would I go there to try and win?
“As much as I want to say, ‘Oh, just be happy, just soaking in the experience’, we all know once the helmet’s on it’s different. I can’t deny that I would want to go and do it properly. And that’s maybe something I need to understand as well – is my heart in it?”
A Ricciardo-Verstappen-Vettel trio?
When it comes to the drivers Ricciardo would dream of sharing that companionship with, other Red Bull icons come up.
“I don’t want to put pressure on him, but obviously Max [Verstappen] is a name that would be high on the list. We talked about Red Bull obviously in 2018, and what if, and what if; I was trying to get back at the team at the end of my career, so maybe that’s a way that we could give the people what they want,” Ricciardo chuckled.
Verstappen has openly expressed interest in Le Mans for the future, and interviewer Tom Clarkson suggested the pair could be joined by Sebastian Vettel, who tested Porsche’s Hypercar challenger in 2024 but is yet to enter the French classic.
“Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit!” Ricciardo exclaimed.
“There’s no denying that he still is extremely fast and would be fast in anything. I fricking love Seb, so that could be a nice little Red Bull reunion of sorts.”
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