Daniel Ricciardo has confirmed he will be in attendance at the Indianapolis 500 this year, stating he expects the event to \u201chit me hard\u201d.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Ricciardo has not raced professionally since his outing at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
He has since declared that he has retired from racing and is focusing on other projects, including being an ambassador of Ford Racing and launching his own wine.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The latter product will be advertised during this year’s Indy 500 in collaboration with Conor Daly, who will race for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Ricciardo recently appeared on Daly’s Speed Street podcast, where he discussed his attendance at this year’s race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat you’ve told me about Indy 500, I’ve probably never been more excited since I was a kid to go to a race and just be a fan at a race,\u201d\u00a0Ricciardo said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cTo experience it in the way you speak about it, you’ve done the European thing, you’ve travelled the world racing.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThis sounds like… I think it’s going to really hit me hard. I’m excited to be a fan.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The race will take place on May 24, just a handful of hours before the Canadian Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Explaining how the idea of attending the race came about, Ricciardo said: \u201cWe started a conversation like ‘guys, is there a world we can get Conor more involved?\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then pretty much at the same time, I was speaking to my Dad about Indy 500 and it’s something he’s always wanted to do and always wanted to go to.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, ‘well, let’s do it in 2026, let’s go to the race’.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Ricciardo has confirmed he will be in attendance at the Indianapolis 500 this year, stating he expects…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-418568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}