Because he doesn’t need to, ratchet and cp are already going for it. If he gets fang into similar territory then it’s basically a win/win for him whichever goes over rather than just adding weight to put me over the edge, ensuring I flip and then he gets his hands dirty. Pretty good chance ratchet and cp can do it without him
Either that, or fang is his teammate and he made a calculated risk that ratchet/cp would get me over the line without him and he can use the distancing to look good later. The risk is obviously people end up lynching fang instead, but I don’t think it’s one he wouldn’t take really
That said, I do think fang is probably town just based from his own play.