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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    3 months ago

    Tsunoda in Turkey was another one, completely destroyed his own race to defend with his life against Hamilton iirc.