Red Bull principal Christian Horner says the controversial comments made by Helmut Marko regarding a ‘coronavirus camp' were made before the severity of the virus became apparent. It's safe to say that Marko, Red Bull's advisor and head of their driver development programme, caused a quite a stir when he revealed his plans for a controlled environment to infect his drivers with the virus. He openly advocated for all of Red Bull’s drivers to get Covid-19 and overcome the symptoms together. No surprise then that the response was overwhelmingly negative – biochemist Douwe de Boer openly accused Marko of 'playing with human lives', even if he did understand his line of thinking...
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