(Motorsport-Total.com) – Max Verstappen was on the phone with his sim racing buddy Lando Norris on Sunday during the Bahrain virtual Grand Prix, documented on Norris Twitch-Channel; but in times of the coronavirus pandemic, life is also somewhat more complicated for the 22-year-old Red Bull star than usual.
© Sutton
– –
Max Verstappen and Helmut Marko are currently in contact by phone zoom
–
Helmut Marko tells the ‘Kronen Zeitung’ that in times like these the otherwise cool Formula 1 hero also shows signs of uncertainty: “He told me on the phone that he was terrified of being infected.”
The Red Bull motorsport consultant, who so far has not been infected by the global corona panic (in the truest sense of the word), quips: “The best thing is that he is infected now! At 22, he is not a risk person. But after that he would be immune to his title tour. “
While Verstappen is killing time in Monaco, Marko stays in his home in Graz. He is not as scared as his drivers: “In addition to working in the office, I respond to my frustration in forestry with a chainsaw and the like.”
And although the former Formula 1 driver and Le Mans winner, at 76, clearly belongs to the risk group in the population, he is not particularly afraid of becoming infected with the SARS CoV-2 virus.
Ross Brawn exclusive: Coronavirus “a serious threat”
– –
Austria has “very good medical care. I’m just extremely careful that I don’t injure myself with the chainsaw and have to go to the hospital. That is certainly the most dangerous place at the moment,” says Marko in an interview with the ‘Kronen Zeitung’.
Compared to the daily newspaper ‘Austria’, he is surprised at the irrationality that the coronavirus pandemic triggers in some people: “In the supermarket, people fight for the goods or stand crowded at the checkout. But if there are three of you outside standing together, a security guard comes and asks what’s going on. Crazy. “
And Marko often thinks of his late friend Niki Lauda these days: “He would not only be a risk patient, he shouldn’t have been allowed to travel at all. As I said before, I always have Niki in the back of my mind and try to live healthy and do more fitness . “
–
