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.”

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    34 days 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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      54 days ago

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