Red Bull Formula 1 motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says reports he had proposed sending the team’s drivers to a fitness camp with the aim of contracting coronavirus were misinterpr🐓eted.

Speaking in an interview with🐠 Austria’s television channel ORF, Marko suggested an idea of bringing his F1 drivers and juniors together to a training camp, which “would be the ideal time for the infection to come.”

Marko’s argument was that he felt his drivers would be better off getting infected ♊with COVID-19 now so they could fully recover and be immune from the disea💦se by the time the season could restart later in the year.

Red Bull team principal played down Marko’s idea as a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“throwaway comment” and insisted it was🉐 never tableཧd as a serious plan.

Marko has since moved ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤𝐆⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚto clarify his comments, adding that the subsequent reports were wide of the mark.

“🐎Of course that's not true,” Marko told German publication AutoBild.

“It wasn't about deliberate🍌ly infecting someone. That came across wrong in the interview because it was 🦩also cut together.

“In Austria you are being overwhelmed by coronavirus media. Regardless of whether it's television▨, radio or newspapers: it's all about the virus.

“Of course you have to be careful and try to get the pandemic under control as quickly as possible, but please ཧwith a sense of proportion.”

The 76-year-old believes he may have already contracted coronavirus earlier this year after having flu-like symptoms before he travell𝓀ed to the Australian Grand Prix.

“I'm sure the virus caught me in February,” he explained. “I had a ten-day cold with all the symptoms associa🌳ted with the virus.

“When I fle🌞w to Melbourne for the planned Grand Prix, I felt better. On the𝓡 return flight I had to stop in Dubai. Conditions prevailed there, which you cannot imagine.

“Tens of thousands of people from different nations scurried around in a confined space. But I was not infected against any logic. Probably becausℱe I was already resistant.

“If people my age, the highest risk group at all, can survive the disease, it can be said that youn𒅌g, well-trained athletes like our racing driver♐s should at least be less afraid of the consequences,” he added.

“That was the only reason why we considere൲d organizing the training camp despite the danger from Corona. Above all, it shou♕ld distract the boys and keep them fit.

“But there was never any talk of deliberate infectio🔯n.”