Timo Glock

Infobox F1 driver
Name = Timo Glock


Caption =
Nationality = flagicon|GER German
Car number = 12
Team = Toyota
Team for 2008 = Toyota
Races = 19
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 1
Poles = 0
Points = 22
Fastest laps = 0
First race = 2004 Canadian Grand Prix
First win =
Last win =
Last race = 2008 Singapore Grand Prix

Timo Glock (born March 18, 1982 in Lindenfels, Germany) is a motor racing driver. At the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix, standing in for Giorgio Pantano who had a contract dispute with Jordan Grand Prix, he joined a select group of drivers who have scored a World Championship point in their first Formula One race. He currently drives for Toyota F1 in the 2008 Formula One season.

Career

Early career

Glock began his motorsport career in 1998 at the age of 15. He won several karting championships as well as the BMW ADAC Formula Junior Cup in 2000 and the Formula BMW ADAC Championship in 2001. In his first German Formula Three Championship season in 2002, he finished third in the standings en route to rookie of the year honours. In 2003, he competed in the Formula Three Euroseries, winning three races and scoring three other podium finishes, which were enough to place him in fifth position in the Championship.

2004 Formula One

Glock was signed as Jordan Grand Prix's test driver for the 2004 Formula One Season and made his Formula One debut at the Canadian Grand Prix replacing Giorgio Pantano for one race. He finished 11th but inherited 7th following the disqualification of the Williams and Toyota cars and therefore scored two points on his debut. He finished the season with Jordan, taking over from Pantano for the last three races. Glock's sponsorship with Deutsche Post helped bring back the colours of DHL to Jordan. [ [http://www.dpwn.de/dpwn?xmlFile=300000140&lang=de_EN Deutsche Post World Net | Speed Academy ] ]

2005 Champ Car

In 2005, Glock shifted his racing career to the United States, racing in the Champ Car World Series with Paul Gentilozzi's Rocketsports team. His best finish of the year was second place at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve at the Molson Indy Montreal in Canada, where he was defeated by Oriol Servia. In the closing laps of the race Glock twice retained the lead over Servia by missing the track's final chicane. As the rules require drivers who blatantly gain or retain a position by driving off the racing surface to give way, Glock was asked to move over by Champ Car officials, and let Servia take the lead. Glock obliged midway through the final lap, giving him enough time to try and take the lead back, but to no avail. Glock went on to finish 8th in the final season points standings and win Champ Car World Series Rookie of the Year honors.

2006-2007 GP2

In 2006, Glock raced in Europe in the GP2 Series, the level immediately below Formula One. He started the series with the midfield BCN Competicion team, gaining average results. In mid-season he moved to the front-running iSport team and after a string of improved results finished fourth in the final classification of the drivers' standings. In F1|2006 he tested an F1 car again for BMW Sauber, which led to him being signed in December as the team's second test driver for F1|2007.

He was also re-signed for 2007 by iSport and won one feature race and four sprint races on his way to the championship. [cite news| title =Glock signed as BMW second driver| publisher =Grandprix.com| url =http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns17888.html| date =2006-12-21| accessdate =2006-12-21] Following the serious crash of regular Formula One BMW driver Robert Kubica in Canada, it was speculated that Glock could take over the drive. However, the team chose its lead test driver Sebastian Vettel to substitute instead. [cite news| title =Vettel to replace Kubica at Indianapolis| publisher =autosport.com| url =http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/59765| date =2007-06-14| accessdate =2007-06-14] Vettel's drive as a fill-in helped him get a full-time racing seat with the Toro Rosso team later in the season, starting at the Hungarian Grand Prix, and Glock was promoted to the main test and reserve driver for BMW.

2008 Formula One

After winning the GP2 Series in 2007, Glock was connected to several F1 teams. This resulted in him signing a contract with Toyota F1 whilst still having a test driver contract with BMW, which in turn led to the case being brought before the Contract Recognition Board. In November, the CRB ruled that Glock was free to race for Toyota in F1|2008 [cite news| title =CRB says Glock free to race for Toyota
publisher =autosport.com| url =http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/63985| date =2007-11-16| accessdate =2007-11-16] and shortly afterwards Glock signed a three-year contract to replace Ralf Schumacher at Toyota. He scored his first points of 2008 in the Canadian Grand Prix, finishing 4th ahead of Felipe Massa's Ferrari. Glock qualified a career-best fifth at the Hungarian Grand Prix, and finished the race in second place ahead of reigning world champion Kimi Räikkönen. At the Singapore Grand Prix Glock finished 4th, one of his best finishes in the season.

Motorsports career results

Career summary

Complete GP2 Series results

() (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in "italics" indicate fastest lap)

References

ources

* Formula One World Championship results are derived from cite web | title = The Official Formula 1 website | url = http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2004/ | accessdate = 2007-06-23

External links

* [http://www.timoglock.de/ Timo Glock Official website]
* [http://www.driverdb.com/racingdriver21.html Timo Glock career statistics] at Driver Database