If there was an apt moment for
Timo Glock to rediscover the form and fortune that took him into an early lead in the GP2 Series, it would be this weekend, on home soil, at the Nurburgring.
The championship arrives in the Eifel region of Germany with the iSport International driver clinging to a two-point advantage after four successive races in which he has not scored - the difference between himself and nearest challenger Lucas di Grassi being the bonus for pole at Magny-Cours - and keen to kick-start a season in which he was made title favourite before the first race and appeared to be living up to the hype with a string of podium results in the opening rounds.
In what is turning out to be possibly the most open and competitive campaign in GP2 Series history, another scoreless weekend for Glock could throw the title battle even wider open than it is at present. With nine different drivers taking victory in the opening nine races of the season, the field has shown that it contains a number of potential champions, especially with more than half the season to run. Consider that di Grassi has yet to win - and that just 30 points split Glock from the lowest placed winners of the season, Nicolas Lapierre and Adam Carroll - and the remaining twelve races hold myriad possibilities.
Carroll could well be the man to watch this weekend, having raised the stakes in only his second outing with FMSI after replacing the lacklustre Antonio Pizzonia. The Ulsterman could have left
Silverstone with a brace of podiums, but will ride the wave of confidence generated by his sprint race win to the Nurburgring determined to mount a title challenge after canning his DTM ride to concentrate on his single-seater ambitions.
![Timo Glock - iSport International [pic credit: GP2 media]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/346997.jpg)
