The AlphaTauri Formula 1 ꦬhas taken up Bahrain’s offer for its personnel to be vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to pre-season test🐷ing.

Bahr𓃲ain’s ❀national government recently announced it would be offering two doses of the Pfizer vaccine to F1 team members attending both testing and the season-opening grand prix this month.

The F1 organisation decided to turn down the offer, but a number of team members from Red Bull and Ferrari have been vaccinated against the virus, including 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:drivers Sergio Perez an🉐d ꧑Carlos Sainz.

AlphaTauri boss Franz Tost confirmed on the second day ofဣ pre-season testing that his side had opted to take up Bahrain’s offer, with staff receiving their first vaccine dose earlier this week.

ltxcn.top understands that Yuki Tsunoda has been vaccinated but Pierre Gasly has not been due to testing positive for the𒅌 🐓virus in January and not yet passing the required time to receive a vaccine after being declared post-COVID-negative.

“All the team members from Scuderia AlphaTauri have been vaccinated on Tuesday and we will stay one or two day🦄s longer after t꧋he first race for the second vaccination,” said Tost.

“꧂Health iꦰs the most important factor and as the team principal I am responsible for the health of the people and therefore we did this vaccination.

“I have to say many, many thanks to Bahrain that they offered us this possibility, because🔯 in Europe I don’t know how long we would have to wait to be vaccinated, especially in Austria and Italy. Therefore we are more than happy.”

Aston Martin team principal Otmar Szafnauer and Alpine executive director Marcin Budkowski confirmed that both their teams have not set a specific policy regarding🌜 the vaccine offer, instead allowing individuals to make their own decisions.

“So we decided to leave it up to the individuals but like Franz said, it was a very kind offer by the Bahrainisꦗ,” Szafnauer explained.

“We left it as an individual choice and because of it I haven’t asked which individuals opted in or out. But I can happily say I’m so old that I was vacci♛nated in the UK.”