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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 2 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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[–] Microw@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Imo thats a pretty weird quote to publish. On one hand you have RB slyly referencing something they usually dont mention because they have no say in it - their driver lineup being decided soon. And on the other hand it's a preemptive attempt to counter arguments that Danny helped Max.

[–] exanime@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] Munkisquisher 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 1 month 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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