Official line from RB team principal Laurent Mekies in the post-race press release:

“Given this may have been Daniel’s last race, we wanted to give him the chance to savour it and go out with the fastest lap.”

  • @exanime
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    92 months ago

    it’s a preemptive attempt to counter arguments that Danny helped Max.

    That’s all it was. It means literally nothing for Ricciardo’s record or even RB since the point won’t be awarded anyway

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      It’s gotta be more fun to thrash an F1 car around the track with new tires than to go at a sensible pace with 30 lap old tires. I know what I’d prefer for my potential last couple of laps if I were in that situation

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      It helps Red Bull and Max to deny that point from Lando. They didn’t ask Yuki to do this when he also had a pitstop gap over the next car!

      • @[email protected]OP
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        52 months ago

        The point is that Red Bull isnt supposed to use their second team like this to help their first one out