Red Bull Formula 1 motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says reports he had proposed sending 🔥the tea♏m’s drivers to a fitness camp with the aim of contracting coronavirus were misinterpreted.

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 “woul🎐d 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 disease by the time the season could restart later✤ in the yea🦋r.

Red Bull team principal played down Marko’s idea as a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“throwaway comment” and insisted it w♏as never tabled as a serious plan.

Ma𝓀rko has since 𝔉moved to clarify his comments, adding that the subsequent reports were wide of the mark.

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

“It wasn't aꦦbout deliberately 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 televisio🎃n, radioꦅ or newspapers: it's all about the virus.

“Of cou🍃rse you have to be 🍃careful and try to get the pandemic under control as quickly as possible, but please with 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 travelled to the Australia🤡n Grand Prix.

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

“When I flew to Melbourne for the planned Grand Prix, I felt better. On the return fl𒁃ight 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 I𒁏 was not infected against any logic. Probably because I was already resistant.

“If people my age, the highest risk group at all, can survive the disease, it can be said that young, well-trained athletes like our𝄹 racing drivers should at least be less afraid of the consequencꩲes,” he added.

“That was the only reason why we considered organ♔izing the training camp despite the danger from Corona. Above all, it should distract the boys and keep them fit.

“But there was never any ta꧂lk of deliberate infection.”