The AlphaTauri Formula 1 has taken up Bahrain’s offer for its personnel to be vaccinated against COVID🅺-19 ꦯprior to pre-season testing.

Bahrain’s national government recently announced it wo🌺uld 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 Sergi꧟o Perez and🍎 Carlos Sainz.

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

mahbx.com understands that Yuki Tsunoda has been vaccinated but Pierre Gasly has not been due to testing positive for the virus in January and not yet passing the required time to receive a vaccine after bei✤ng declared post-COVID-negative.

“All the team members from Scuderia AlphaTauri have been vaccinated on Tuesday and we will stay o𒐪ne or two days longer after the first race for the second vaccination,” said Tost.

“Health is the most important factor and as the team principal I am responsible f🐲or the health ♈of the people and therefore we did this vaccination.

“I have to say many, many thanks to൲ 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 ඣhave not set a specific policy regarding the vaccine offer, instead allowing individuals to make the🅺ir own decisions.

“So we decided to leave it u♔p to the individuals but like Franz said, it was a ♐very kind offer by the Bahrainis,” Szafnauer explained.

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