Daniel Ricciardo has “thanked the lord” for no longer having to undergo gruelling F1 neck training in his retirement.<\/p>\n
The Australian last raced in F1 in the 2024 Singapore GP, and has kept a relatively low profile since, but was in Austin across the United States GP weekend, and held a WhatsApp group watchalong with some fans as Max Verstappen won to further reduce Oscar Piastri’s points lead to 40.<\/p>\n
When a question about his own potential comeback was raised, Ricciardo ruled it out with a quip about his neck strength.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“My neck ain\u2019t so strong anymore, haha,” he said as part of the WhatsApp watchalong.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“[There is] no more neck training, thank the lord, haha, I hated that part.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the neck, it\u2019s so intense that first sector [of the Austin lap].<\/p>\n
As for a comeback, Ricciardo now officially counts himself as retired, moving into a global ambassador role for Ford Racing.<\/p>\n
“While my racing days are behind me, my love for anything with wheels will always remain high,” he said at the time of the announcement.<\/p>\n
“For that, I am proud to be partnering with Ford to become a Global Ford Racing Ambassador.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Ricciardo has “thanked the lord” for no longer having to undergo gruelling F1 neck training in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-518242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}