Timo Glock suffered a potentially injuring accident when his front wing flew off during second free practice in China on Friday. As a result of the failure, the German’s car went straight on as he approached the first corner.
Cars rarely find themselves off-track in the first part of the opening Shanghai corner, but Glock became a passenger when his front wing detached itself exactly halfway through the 90-minute session. Slightly shaken, he climbed from his car unharmed.
“I’m fine,” he told Sky Sports in the pit lane. “I had a bit of a problem at the first moment with my left hand - it was just the impact, but it’s fine.”
When asked for his version of events, the Marussia driver replied:
“I don’t know, we have to see the footage, I have no idea. I came down the straight and went straight on. I don’t know when (the front wing) came off, because I just saw it off when I jumped out of the car.”
During pre-season testing for the 2010 campaign, the squad then known as Virgin suffered a number of wing failures at Jerez.
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| Pos. | Driver | Team | Time | Laps |
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| 1. |  M. Schumacher | Mercedes | 01:35.973 | 32 |
| 2. | L. Hamilton | McLaren | 01:36.145 | 29 |
| 3. | S. Vettel | Red Bull | 01:36.160 | 27 |
| 4. | M. Webber | Red Bull | 01:36.433 | 24 |
| 5. | N. Rosberg | Mercedes | 01:36.617 | 31 |
| 6. | J. Button | McLaren | 01:36.711 | 28 |
| 7. | K. Kobayashi | Sauber | 01:36.956 | 28 |
| 8. | P. di Resta | Force India | 01:36.966 | 31 |
| 9. | N. Hulkenberg | Force India | 01:37.191 | 31 |
| 10. | F. Alonso | Ferrari | 01:37.316 | 32 |
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