维斯塔潘称备战时间不足成勒芒重聚障碍
维斯塔潘表示，缺乏充分准备时间“有点遗憾”，是与他前F1队友里卡多在勒芒24小时赛重聚的障碍。里卡多此前曾表示有意以一次性参赛形式与维斯塔潘搭档。
维斯塔潘表示，缺乏充分准备时间“有点遗憾”，是与他前F1队友丹尼尔·里卡多在勒芒24小时赛任何潜在重聚的障碍。
里卡多去年9月宣布自己的赛车生涯已经结束，他在成为福特全球赛车大使时称自己已“退役”。
这位八次大奖赛冠军得主在2022年底提前一年离开迈凯伦，以第三车手身份回归红牛，并于2023年中期在姐妹车队小红牛顶替尼克·德弗里斯重返发车格。
但里卡多并未以此作为跳板实现重返红牛一队的梦想，他表现挣扎，在2024赛季尚未结束前就被第二支F1车队放弃。
里卡多现在后悔当初在2018年底离开红牛转投雷诺，他暗示可能以与维斯塔潘在勒芒24小时耐力赛再度联手的形式复出参赛。
里卡多在《Beyond The Grid》播客中表示，他开始觉得“能更多地按照自己的方式结束职业生涯会更好”，而且“也许那是我需要的最后一点了结”——但“跑完整赛季听起来仍然不那么令人兴奋，[相反]可能是一次性的，比如一次性的勒芒”。
“我不想给他压力，但显然马克斯是名单上排在前面的名字，”里卡多说。
“我曾试图在职业生涯末期回到车队[红牛]，所以也许那是我们能给车迷们想要的东西的一种方式。”
两人在勒芒被配对参赛有一条显而易见的路径。红牛的动力单元合作伙伴福特——里卡多目前仍是其品牌大使——很快将推出一个新的超级跑车项目，以在这项著名赛事中再次争夺全场荣誉。
福特也很喜欢让维斯塔潘驾驶其赛车的想法——考虑到他早期最突出的GT赛车经历都是在梅赛德斯赛车上取得的——同时也渴望让里卡多也去做一些有竞争力的事情。
维斯塔潘开玩笑说里卡多选他作为理想的勒芒队友：“是啊，他选我上车真是个聪明人！但我们还得再看看。”
“这取决于很多事情。如果我想做，我就想认真去做，做好充分准备，而目前我做不到这一点。”
“我没有时间，也没有空闲时间，在F1之外还要做其他所有事情的情况下，投入到勒芒项目中。”
维斯塔潘今年早些时候在F1赛季中期，与他的GT车队一起参加了纽博格林北环赛道的纽博格林24小时耐力赛，以及波尔蒂芒的一场GT世界挑战赛。
不过，全力冲击勒芒将完全是另一回事，无论是否避免与F1冲突——至少在2027年是可以避免的。
“他（里卡多）自己说过，他不认为自己会回来跑整个赛季，但一次性参赛也可能让他感兴趣，”维斯塔潘说。
我的意思是，为什么不呢？但话说回来，我觉得如果我们真的做那样的事，他肯定会同意这需要办得妥当。
这需要是为了有机会获胜，而为了有机会战胜那些全年都在做这件事的人，你需要准备得非常充分。
你只需要找到合适的时机。也许那会有点让人扫兴。
里卡多也喜欢另一位前队友、红牛传奇塞巴斯蒂安·维特尔参与其中的想法，他表示，共享一辆车所带来的“陪伴感”前景会真正吸引他。
但正如维斯塔潘所指出的，里卡多不会只是去勒芒随便过把瘾。他想要真正地竞争，尽管他承认，有可能被重新深深卷入竞速的竞争欲望，正是他对复出保持谨慎的原因。
他说：“这会打开那个盒子吗？我不这么认为。我对一切都要平静得多。
“但话说回来，我在骗谁呢？我去勒芒只是为了去参赛、只为能到场而开心，还是去那里努力争胜？
“尽管我很想说，‘哦，就开心点，就好好享受这段经历’，但我们都知道，一旦戴上头盔，情况就不一样了。
“我不能否认，我会想去把它好好做出来。而这也许也是我需要弄明白的事情——我的心真的在这上面吗？”
英文原文
Max Verstappen has suggested the lack of time to prepare properly is "a little bit of a bummer" and a hurdle against any potential reunion with his ex-Formula 1 team-mate Daniel Ricciardo at the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Ricciardo declared his racing days were behind him in September last year when he described himself as having "retired" upon becoming a Global Ford Racing Ambassador.
The eight-time grand prix winner left McLaren a year early at the end of 2022, rejoined Red Bull as a third driver and got back onto the grid in mid-2023 in place of Nyck de Vries at the sister Racing Bulls team.
But instead of using that as a springboard to a dream return to Red Bull Racing, Ricciardo struggled and was dropped by a second F1 team in less than two years before the 2024 season was even finished.
Ricciardo, who now regrets leaving Red Bull at the end of 2018 in the first place to join Renault, has teased a racing return in the form of a dream tie-up with Verstappen again at the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Ricciardo told the Beyond The Grid podcast he was starting to feel that "it would be nice to finish a bit more on my terms" and "maybe that's the last bit of closure I need" – but "doing a full championship still doesn't really sound that exciting, [instead] probably a one-off, like a one-off Le Mans".
"I don't want to put pressure on him, but obviously Max is a name that would be high on the list," Ricciardo said.
"I was trying to get back to the team [Red Bull] at the end of my career, so maybe that's a way that we could give the people what they want."
There is an obvious route to the two being paired together at Le Mans. Red Bull's engine partner Ford, with whom Ricciardo is still an ambassador, will soon have a new hypercar project to compete for outright honours at the famous race again.
Ford also loves the idea of getting Verstappen in one of its cars - considering his most prominent early GT racing exploits have come in Mercedes machinery - and is keen for Ricciardo to do something competitive as well.
Verstappen joked of Ricciardo picking him as an ideal Le Mans team-mate: "Yeah, he's a smart man to choose me in the car! But we have to see.
"It just depends on a lot of things. If I want to do it, I want to do it properly, with really good prep, and at the moment I cannot do that.
"I don't have the time, the free time, to dedicate to a Le Mans project with all the other things that I'm also doing outside of Formula 1."
Verstappen contested the Nurburgring 24 Hours on the Nordschleife earlier this year with his GT team in the middle of the F1 season, and a GT World Challenge race at Portimao.
A full-on Le Mans bid would be an altogether different undertaking, though, regardless of whether a clash with F1 is avoided - which it at least will be in 2027.
"He [Ricciardo] said it himself, he doesn't see himself coming back for a whole season, but the one-off can also interest him," Verstappen said.
"And I mean, why not? But again, I think, if we do something like that, he will for sure agree that it needs to be proper.
"It needs to be for a chance to win, and for a chance to win against people that do it a whole season you need to be prepared really well.
"You just need to find the right timings. Maybe that's a little bit of a bummer."
Ricciardo, who also liked the idea of another former team-mate and Red Bull legend Sebastian Vettel getting in on the act, said the prospect of "companionship" in sharing a car would really appeal to him.
But, as Verstappen indicated, Ricciardo would not just go to Le Mans to scratch an itch. He would want to compete properly, although he admits potentially getting seriously drawn back into the competitive desire of racing is why he is cautious about a comeback.
He said: "Would it open the box? I don't think it will. 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?"
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