Daniel Ricciardo claims fastest lap on expected last F1 race to help Red Bull

Daniel Ricciardo helps🍬 Red Bull... but it's🌠 likely to be his final act in F1

Daniel Ricciardo
Daniel Ricciardo

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo scored the fastest lap of the F1 Singapore Grand Prix - which is expected to be his final rac🍨e.

R💧icciardo will reportedly be replaced in the RB by Liam Lawson for the next round 💟in Texas, and for the remainder of the season.

But he completed one final hurrah by earning the bonus point for the 🌺fastest l🐬ap in Singapore. He was also named F1 Driver of the Day.

Significantly, he took the point away fr𝕴om Lando Norris who had previously completed the fastest lap.

McLaren’s Norris won the Singapore Grand Prix ahead o♔f Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Ricciardo was 18th.

But Norris would have taken an extra point home to help his title battle, if not for ex-teammate Ricciard꧟o’s late intervention on Lap 61.

“Your old pal Daniel picked up the fastest🔴 lap,” Verstappen’s race engineer told him.

“Thankyou Daniel,” Verstappen said on team radio.

It means Ricciardo’s𝐆 final act in Formula 1 might be to majorly help the team who are expected to dump him soon.

He has helped Vers🥀tappen to keep a 52-point lead ahead of Norris at the top of the championship, where it was set to be on 51 points.

Ricciardo also foil📖ed his former McLaren teammate Norris in the process.

Mathematically, Verstappen will retain his F1 title if he finishes second to Norris at each of the remaining grands prix, regardless of fa🦩stest lap bonus points.

Ricciardo's help may not help the popular ✤Australian veteran extend his career.

The talk throughout the F1 paddock🉐 in Singapore is that Red♊ Bull will opt to change the driver duo in their sister team at RB before the next round.

It means, unless Ricciardo makes another comeback in 2025, that he has driven his final laps of Foꦺrmula 1.

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