Turkish Grand Prix: Pre-Race Interview With Virgin’s Timo Glock

Turkish Grand Prix: Pre-Race Interview With Virgin's Timo Glock

Turkish Grand Prix: Pre-Race Interview With Virgin's Timo Glock


Question: Timo, I think a little bit of a frustrating start to the season for you judging from your comments recently?

Timo Glock: Not a perfect start to the year for us, but we just have to get on with it and make the best out of it.

Question: How do you think you can improve? In which direction? It is suggested that you are not very happy with the CFD.

Timo Glock: I am not happy with the car at the moment, that’s the main point. I think aerodynamically we are not where we should be. We have got a good update for here. The numbers are looking good and we have to see if that turns it around on the track. Simulator and all that stuff went okay in the last week and I think the parts are not looking that bad but, as I said, it counts on track and we have to see what we can do here.

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Question: Do you feel you are attacking the teams in front or more on the defensive from the team behind?

Timo Glock: At the moment we are too far away from Lotus, I think. I just hope we manage to be closer here and have to watch out (that) we stay where we are at the moment.

Question: You expect a step forward, changing the cars. Is it realistic to believe that we can have big changes from what we have seen until now this year?

Timo Glock: It’s difficult to say, if I understand the question. We have a big update here and we think we have a good step forward but you never know how it’s going to work out and you never know how it’s going to be on track.

Question: When you go around the paddock, do you notice the absence of Robert Kubica and do you miss him as a friend and a personality in Formula One?

Timo Glock: Yeah, definitely. I have known him for a couple of years now. I spent a complete year with him at BMW and just a couple of days ago we sent messages back and forth. He’s a special guy and I think everyone is missing him. He’s a very good racer and it’s a shame that he’s not here, but I just hope that he recovers as quickly as possible and will be back in the paddock again.

Question: Going back to what has been said about the excitement of the races – more overtaking, DRS, the KERS, the tyres - but Mark Webber, for example, in the last few days has said that overtaking has become too easy. He says that you probably had to take more risks in the past to overtake. Do you think this is the case or not?

Timo Glock: I’ve start behind a couple of times now, but I’ve never managed to be on the podium this year and last year so I will have to talk to Mark and ask him what he did different to me. I think it was quite interesting to see how good the car is, he had a good strategy as well, lots of good overtaking manoeuvres so he had everything right but as I said, I have to find a way to make that happen as well.

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