Formula 1 is hoping to race through the covid crisis by attending all 23 scheduled grands prix on the 2021 calendar. “Last year we proved that we can deal with covid,” he said at the Bahrain test. Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz confirmed that they took up Bahrain’s offer to receive two full doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. “For me, I don’t know when I will be able to get it back in Mexico, so I think it was very nice from Bahrain to offer that to us,” said Red Bull’s Perez. Max Verstappen was vaccinated just prior to heading to Bahrain, and he commented: “In the end, everyone has to get it.

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