Timo Glock has confirmed his intention to be on the grid for next weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest, having been released from hospital following his heavy shunt at Hockenheim on Sunday.
The local favourite had looked to be on course for another point-scoring result - his second of the season - after a long first stint helped elevate his
Toyota into the top three. Even after his pit-stop the German was holding his own in sixth, only for a failure at the rear of the TF108 to pitch him into a spin and the pit-wall.
The heavy rearward impact, which sent parts of his car spearing both down the track and perilously close to those manning the pit-wall, means that Toyota engineers have, so far, been unable to determine the cause of the incident, but they will be buoyed by the news that their driver - despite being airlifted to hospital - survived the shunt unharmed and is raring to get back behind the wheel.
"I am okay!" Glock revealed in a brief update on his personal website, "The first impact was naturally very hard and, in the first moment, I had a lot of pains, but the investigations at the hospital showed that I have no injuries - no breaks or even bad bruising. It was the
FIA direction that I remained in hospital overnight, but they released me on Monday again, and I will start in the next race."
Glock may yet return to action at this week's
Jerez test, but the team has so far refused to comment on the possibility.
"We are extremely confident Timo will be fit for the Hungarian Grand Prix," team principal Tadashi Yamashina said, "Naturally, he is a bit shaken by the accident, but all the checks have shown he is fine so we are not worried about that."
