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Q&A: Timo Glock - EXCLUSIVE.

Thursday, 25th January 2007

Timo Glock is being touted as one of the hot favourites for the GP2 crown this year, after a switch of teams midway through 2006 really saw his season come alive. Here the young German tells us about his hopes for the forthcoming campaign…

by Russell Atkins

Timo Glock is being touted as one of the hot favourites for the GP2 crown this year, after a switch of teams midway through 2006 really saw his season come alive. Here the young German tells us about his hopes for the forthcoming campaign…

Q:
Timo, your change of team in GP2 last season really seemed to make your year, didn’t it?

Timo Glock:
Yes. I think it was the right move at the right time, because otherwise maybe I wouldn’t be here now. We had a good second half of the GP2 season – it was quite a strong performance – and I got the chance with BMW to take the test-driver job, which I’m very happy about. I think that shows I did the right thing during the two test days.

Q:
Do you think if you had started the GP2 season with iSport like you finished it, you might have had a chance of fighting for the title?

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TG:
It’s easy to say but you never know how things would have gone if I had started with iSport. They definitely had a strong performance right from the beginning of the season. They developed the car as well and I developed it for my driving style, especially after Silverstone. You never know. I don’t want to say anything about where I may have ended up had I started with iSport. The beginning of the season was not the perfect start for us. The results in the second half of the season are what we can talk about.

Q:
You are sticking with iSport in GP2 in 2007. What do you think you can achieve over the year? What are your hopes and expectations?

TG:
I think we’ve got a pretty strong team. My team-mate Andreas Zuber is doing a good job – he was pretty quick in the first test. I think we are right on it and that it should be possible to compete against ART and fight for the championship.

Q:
Aside from GP2, you will be testing for BMW-Sauber in Formula One along the way too. How excited are you about that?

TG:
Hopefully I will come out of every test having done a 100 per cent job, concentrating on developing the car for Nick (Heidfeld) and Robert (Kubica) and putting them in the best position possible to be successful during race weekends.

Q:
So how big an opportunity for you is this?

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