VIENNA – An official at Formula One team Red Bull has proposed holding a training camp that would expose drivers to the coronavirus so they could build immunity to the disease while the season is suspended.
The idea by motorsport adviser Helmut Marko was rejected by the team. Marko said it would be good for the team's drivers to be infected now so they could recover in time for scheduled races later in the year. “We have four Formula One drivers, we have eight or 10 juniors and the idea was to hold a camp where we could bridge this rather dead time mentally and physically,” Marko told Austrian public broadcaster ORF on Sunday. “And then it would be ideal, because these are all young, strong men in really good health, if the infection comes