Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies has hinted Daniel Ricciardo could make appearances in the F1 paddock next year.<\/p>\n
Ricciardo took part in his last race at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix with Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, the Australian confirmed he had retired from racing and struck a partnership with Ford Racing, becoming an ambassador for the organisation.<\/p>\n
Red Bull is preparing for a new era next year when it launches its own power unit, which is being built in collaboration with Ford.<\/p>\n
With Ricciardo now having a key role with Ford, Mekies suggested he may be spotted with his former Red Bull squad in the paddock on occasion next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a family feeling to see Daniel getting back with Ford Racing as part of this adventure, it’s a great feeling,\u201d Mekies told Sky Sports News.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s one of the many examples in which we see how many connection points we have between our two companies, between the two projects.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it’s very exciting. I’m sure everybody will love to see Daniel back in the paddock, and we are going to perhaps going to have that sometimes thanks to Ford Racing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Explaining its partnership with Ricciardo, Ford CEO Jim Farley added the eight-time grand prix winner’s input will boost interest in off-road machinery.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to build a global juggernaut in off-road enthusiast products,\u201d Farley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel is a unique person as we all know, but he also brings a real passion for off-road to a lot of mainstream customers who may not think about off-road.<\/p>\n
\u201cI talk to all the drivers today, all your drivers, and they all were like, \u2018can I get a Raptor R?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something behind that. It’s kind of [an] exotic fruit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies has hinted Daniel Ricciardo could make appearances in the F1 paddock next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-131490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131490","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=131490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}