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Glock affected by first-lap contact

26 July 2010

Timo Glock was sent to the back of the grid for his home Grand Prix on Saturday, having qualified 20th out of 24 cars as many hours earlier. However, the Virgin Racing man believes he was compromised by a first-lap Turn 2 tap on Sunday.

Glock was disappointed with the suspected opening lap nerf
Glock was disappointed with the suspected opening lap nerf

It was a generally clean start to the German Grand Prix, until the Toro Rosso collision at the Turn 6 hairpin, although Glock is sure that he was hit several hundred metres earlier.

“It was a difficult start to the race as Lucas (di Grassi) overtook me in a brilliant move,” said Timo. “However, I had a really good start and overtook both HRT cars at Turn 1, which was good, but at Turn 2 I lost everything again - it felt as if someone pushed me in the back and I ran wide and suddenly I was last again.

“I had to start the fight against the HRTs again and overtook Yamamoto, but I was stuck behind Senna because he had a good top speed. After the pit-stop I had pretty good speed but then the blue flags came out again, which penalised me too much. Overall, I was happy with the race; I just hope we can find a way to get a smoother build-up over the weekend because it will make life a lot easier.”

Di Grassi was ahead of his team-mate in Germany but failed to finish for the second successive race
Di Grassi was ahead of his team-mate in Germany but failed to finish for the second successive race

“I had a very positive start to the race today, as I gained four places on the first lap and was running up behind Heikki (Kovalainen) for many laps,” added team-mate di Grassi, who retired 17 laps from the end. “The car was behaving well, so I was confident we could beat Lotus on the track today and really push after the switch to the Option (softer compound) tyre.

“I hit a bump on the kerb which damaged the suspension and so I lost the car. The damage meant that it was impossible to continue, so what could have been a really great race ended early for me. However, we have shown the strength of the car here so I’m really looking forward to the Hungarian Grand Prix next weekend.”

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