里卡多解释为何远离F1围场
丹尼尔·里卡多解释了自己为何一直远离F1围场。他的F1生涯在2024年新加坡大奖赛后结束，当时小红牛车队用利亚姆·劳森替换了他。
丹尼尔·里卡多解释了自己为何一直远离F1围场。
里卡多的F1生涯结束后，他便退出了公众视野。以下是他为何不确定自己是否还想回来的原因。
一名车迷举着丹尼尔·里卡多的标语牌。
丹尼尔·里卡多详细讲述了自己一直远离F1围场的原因。
里卡多的F1生涯在2024年新加坡大奖赛之后结束，当时这位小红牛车手在经历了一个艰难的赛季后被利亚姆·劳森取代。
过去两年里，这位澳大利亚人远离了聚光灯，更多时间待在家里，更少乘坐飞机，不过他确实成为了福特赛车的全球大使。
并非所有前F1车手在停止参加世界锦标赛后都保持不活跃。其中一些人在其他系列赛中比赛；在2025年和2026年，罗伯特·库比卡、小林可梦伟和尼克·德弗里斯赢得了勒芒24小时耐力赛。
其他人则成为电视评论员，比如简森·巴顿、大卫·库特哈德、海基·科瓦莱宁、尼科·罗斯伯格和雅克·维伦纽夫等众多人士。
里卡多尚未涉足这些，当在《Beyond The Grid》播客中被问及我们是否会以某种身份看到他重返F1围场时，这位八次大奖赛冠军得主回应道：“我不确定。
“如果你一年前问我，我会说‘不，我再也不想只是待在周围了’。那时，我感受到很多痛苦，所以待在周围会带来太多痛苦。我对此非常消极。
“但我觉得过去几年我也试着理解我的自尊心。当所有这些事情发生并在你面前崩塌时，会有一些感觉，我猜，像是自尊心的死亡。然后我想，为什么我这么反对？好吧，那也是我的自尊心在说话，‘哦，我永远不会回到围场，我不想见那些人’，那大概也是我的自尊心在试图保护我自己。
“我现在处于一个非常感激F1给予我的许多东西以及那些关系的位置；我仍然和很多车手、工程师、机械师交谈——有些关系我仍然保持着。甚至新加坡[2024]，比赛后那晚我在赛道待得很晚，因为我知道，我当时想，我不知道什么时候会回来。所以我尽量多地道别，但非常伤感，只是可能不是我想和某些人道别的方式。”
“所以我确实想回去，但让我纠结的是，如果我回去得太早，会不会就变成‘嘿，丹尼尔，他是不是要回来了，他在干什么？’我不想背负那种媒体包袱，我只想去见见一些朋友，但我也明白F1围场不是那样的，运作方式也不是那样——这一点我理解。这也是我一直没回去的原因之一，因为我不想要那种关注，我觉得如果我没有明确目的就走进围场，那就会变成‘好吧，丹尼尔为什么在这儿，他是不是就为了拍张照片？’这些只是我对自己说的话，”他笑着说。
“我真的不想到处奔波。一想到F1的赛历我就发怵，所以这就是我的想法，我觉得那里没有什么是我会……”
“我跟几个朋友聊过，他们在其他运动项目里，现在是退役运动员，但以管理者、车队老板的身份回到了这项运动，或者担任了某个角色。说来有趣。其中一位特别说过，‘这并不比我参赛时轻松’，因为你仍然投入得那么深——尤其是对运动员——他们的问题就是你的问题，而且你下班回家也摆脱不了。你仍然背负着一名运动员的重量。”
“我确实喜欢和年轻车手交流，我确实喜欢尝试分享我的一些知识和经验。我只是觉得我不想再经历所有这些情绪了——那太沉重了。想到能脱离那些，活得更轻松、更自由一点，那感觉就是更好、更舒服。”
“我不认为那能帮助我成为最好的自己，尤其是在对我重要的人身边。”
这位珀斯本地人一直在电视上看比赛，他的父亲很欣赏他的见解。那么他是否愿意有朝一日当评论员呢？“还有出差奔波呢！”里卡多惊呼道。
丹尼尔·里卡多、格蕾丝·里卡多、乔·里卡多
“这很难，因为很多人对我说，‘哦，你在电视上会很出色’。你看，我内心有一部分觉得，是的，能分享我的许多经验和知识会很棒。即使我和我爸爸一起看比赛，我爸爸也会说，‘天哪，得有人听听你在比赛期间说的话，因为我看比赛时从你那里学到了很多’。显然那只是因为我是那20名车手之一。我想，我们中有少数人真正体验过那种水平。显然我很感激很多前车手现在从事那个领域，这是有原因的。
“人生中做些完全不同的事情，也有一种令人耳目一新的感觉。也许能以某种方式活出两段人生，光是这个想法就挺美好的。也许就是合上那本书、继续前行，听起来也很酷。但有时候我又会想，我拥有35年的赛车智慧和知识；就这样把它锁进盒子里，再也不让人看到或听到，这算不算一种浪费？
“我不知道。我想这就是为什么我还没有真正投入任何事情，因为我在努力确保我所做的是对的。”
英文原文
Why Daniel Ricciardo is staying away from the F1 paddock
Ricciardo stepped away from the limelight when his F1 career ended. Here’s why he’s unsure he even wants to come back
A fan holds up a sign of Daniel Ricciardo
Daniel Ricciardo has delved into the reasons why he has been staying away from the Formula 1 paddock.
Ricciardo’s F1 career ended after the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix, when the RB driver was replaced by Liam Lawson after enduring a tough campaign thus far.
In the past two years, the Australian has stayed away from the limelight, spending more time at home and less on planes, though he did become a global ambassador for Ford Racing.
Not all former F1 drivers stay inactive when they stop competing in the world championship. Some of them race in other series; across 2025 and 2026, Robert Kubica, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries won the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Others become TV pundits, like Jenson Button, David Coulthard, Heikki Kovalainen, Nico Rosberg and Jacques Villeneuve among many others.
Ricciardo has engaged in none of this yet, and when asked in the Beyond The Grid podcast if we would see him back in the F1 paddock in some capacity, the eight-time grand prix winner responded: “I’m not sure.
“If you would have asked me a year ago, I would have said ‘No, I don’t ever want to just be around anymore’. At that time, I felt a lot of pain, so it caused too much pain to be around. I was very negative towards it.
“But I think also the last couple of years I’ve tried to understand my ego. There were some feelings of, I guess, like an ego death, when all of these things happen and kind of collapse in front of you. Then I was like, why am I so anti? Okay, that’s my ego also talking, ‘Oh, I’m never going to come back to the paddock, I don’t want to see any of those people’, and that’s also probably my ego trying to protect myself.
“I’m at a place now where I’m very appreciative of many of the things that F1 gave me and the relationships too; I still speak to a lot of the drivers, engineers, mechanics – there’s relationships that I still have. Even Singapore [2024], I stayed at the track quite late that night after the race, because I knew, I was like, I don’t know when I’m going to be back. So I tried to say as many goodbyes as I could, but it was very sombre, just not the way I probably want to say goodbye to some people.
“So I do want to, but I think the thing I’ve been torn with is if I go back too soon, is it just going to be like, ‘Hey, Daniel, is he coming back, what is he doing?’. I don’t want the kind of media baggage with that, I just want to be able to go and see some friends, but I also appreciate that’s not the reality of an F1 paddock and how it works – and I understand that. It’s kind of why I haven’t come back as well, because I don’t want the attention, and I think if I go into the paddock without a purpose, it’s like, ‘Okay, why is Daniel here, is he just looking to get his photo taken?’. These are just things I tell myself,” he chuckled.
“I don’t really want to travel. The thought of the F1 calendar freaks me out, so that’s where I’m like, I don’t think there’s anything there that I would…
“I spoke to a few friends, in other sports, that are now retired athletes but went back into the sport as a manager, as a team owner, or taken a role. It’s funny. One of them in particular said, ‘It’s no easier than when I was competing’, because you still are so invested – especially in the athletes – that their problems are your problems, and you don’t get home from work. You’re still living with the weight of an athlete.
“I do love speaking with younger drivers and I do love trying to share some of my knowledge and experiences. I just don’t think I want to go through all those emotions again – it’s a lot. The thought of just being out of that and living a little more lightly, freely, that just feels nicer and better.
“I don’t think that would help me be maybe the best version of myself, especially around people that matter to me.”
The Perth native has been watching races on TV, with his father enjoying his insight. So might he enjoy being a pundit sometime? “The travel!” Ricciardo exclaimed.
Daniel Ricciardo, Grace Ricciardo, Joe Ricciardo
“It’s hard, because a lot of people tell me, ‘Oh, you’d be great on TV’. Look, there’s a part of me that, yes, it would be awesome to share many of my experiences and knowledge. Even if I watch a race with, even my dad, my dad is like, ‘Man, someone has to hear what you have to say during a race, because I learn so much from you when I watch a race’. Obviously that’s just because I was one of the 20. There’s, I guess, a few of us who have really experienced it to that level. Obviously I appreciate a lot of ex-drivers are in that space now, there’s a reason for that.
“There’s just also something refreshing about doing something completely different with life. Being able to live maybe two lives, in a way, the thought of that is also really quite nice. Maybe just closing that book and moving on, that also sounds cool. But then there’s times where I’m like, I have 35 years of racing wisdom and knowledge; to just kind of lock it in a box and never let it be seen or heard, is that a waste?
“I don’t know. I think that’s why I haven’t really jumped on anything, because I’m trying to make sure what I do is right.”
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