RB team principal Laurent Mekies: "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." (www.visacashapprb.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Microw@lemm.ee to c/formula1@lemmy.world

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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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[-] exanime@lemmy.world 9 points 9 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

[-] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 9 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

[-] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 3 points 9 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!

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

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

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