{"id":115321,"date":"2025-09-05T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/115321\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:27:10","slug":"f1-news-daniel-ricciardo-drops-cryptic-ford-racing-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/115321\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news: Daniel Ricciardo drops cryptic Ford Racing post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ricciardo-RB-f1-future-uncertain.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Ricciardo drops cryptic Ford Racing post\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Ricciardo has hinted at a tie-up with Ford. Image: Rew \/ XPB Images<\/p>\n<p>The retired F1 star dropped the post in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/ford-racing-news-new-name-performance-supercars-mustang-nascar-f1-le-mans-wrc-dakar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday\u2019s news that the Blue Oval is undergoing a global rebrand of its motorsport programs from Ford Performance to Ford Racing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He posted two photos of himself leaning on a Ford Bronco Raptor carrying the new Ford Racing logo, along with the cryptic caption, \u201cmore around the corner\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ricciardo has closed the door on his F1 career and largely kept out of the limelight since his last start, the Singapore Grand Prix in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Ford Racing, however, is an all-encompassing brand that will include all global motorsport activities from F1 to NASCAR, Hypercar, Supercars and the Dakar and US off-road programs.<\/p>\n<p>Like Ford Performance, it will also cover Ford\u2019s high-performance road-going vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Ricciardo does have previous links to Ford, forged when the brand announced its F1 collaboration with Red Bull Racing more than two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>That led to Ricciardo, RBR\u2019s reserve driver at the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/ricciardo-drives-ford-mustang-supercar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">driving a Gen2 Ford Mustang Supercar in Detroit as part of a Ford promotion in February 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Ricciardo has hinted at a tie-up with Ford. Image: Rew \/ XPB Images The retired F1 star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,30104,372,6537,49590,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-115321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-ford","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-slot1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}