40 Facts About Timo Glock

Timo Glock was born on 18 March 1982 and is a German professional racing driver, and BMW Motorsport works driver.

Timo Glock raced in Formula One for the Jordan, Toyota, Virgin Racing and Marussia F1 teams.

Timo Glock finished 10th in the Drivers' Championship in both 2008 and 2009, scoring three podium finishes.

Timo Glock won several karting championships as well as the BMW ADAC Formula Junior Cup in 2000 and the Formula BMW ADAC Championship in 2001.

Timo Glock was signed as Jordan Grand Prix's test driver for the 2004 Formula One season and made his Formula One debut at the Canadian Grand Prix replacing Giorgio Pantano, who had a contract dispute with Jordan.

Timo Glock finished 11th, but inherited 7th following the disqualification of the Williams and Toyota cars and thus scored two points on his debut.

Timo Glock finished the season with Jordan, taking over from Pantano for the last three races.

In 2005, Timo Glock shifted his career to the United States, racing in the Champ Car World Series with Paul Gentilozzi's Rocketsports team.

Timo Glock obliged midway through the final lap, giving him enough time to try to take the lead back, but to no avail.

Timo Glock finished 8th in the final season points standings and won the Champ Car World Series' Rookie of the Year award.

In 2006, Timo Glock raced in Europe in the GP2 Series, the level immediately below Formula One.

Timo Glock started with the midfield BCN Competicion team, gaining average results.

Timo Glock was re-signed for 2007 by iSport and won one feature race and four sprint races on his way to the championship.

Vettel's drive as a fill-in helped him get a full-time racing seat with the Toro Rosso team later in the season, starting at the Hungarian Grand Prix, and Timo Glock was then promoted to the main test and reserve driver for BMW.

Timo Glock signed a contract with Toyota F1, though still under a test driver contract with BMW, which led to the dispute being brought before the Contract Recognition Board.

In November, the CRB ruled that Timo Glock was free to race for Toyota in 2008 and shortly afterwards Timo Glock signed a three-year contract to replace Ralf Schumacher at Toyota.

Timo Glock scored his first points of 2008 in the Canadian Grand Prix, finishing 4th ahead of Felipe Massa's Ferrari.

At the Singapore Grand Prix, Timo Glock finished 4th, one of his best of the season.

Timo Glock remained on the track with dry-weather tyres, while most of the other drivers, including Lewis Hamilton, opted to pit for wet tyres.

Timo Glock was passed by Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton in the final corners.

Timo Glock finished the race in sixth and the championship in tenth position, with 25 points, behind teammate Jarno Trulli.

However, after the race, Lewis Hamilton was disqualified and stripped of his 4th-place finish, and Timo Glock was promoted to 4th.

At the start of the race, Timo Glock slipped to 8th, but an inspired tyre choice as the rain started, coupled with precise driving, saw Timo Glock finish in 3rd when the race was ended early on lap 32.

Timo Glock earned his second podium of the season when he finished 2nd behind Lewis Hamilton at the Singapore Grand Prix after qualifying in 6th.

The race began well when Timo Glock passed Alonso and was given a place by Mark Webber who was forced to let Alonso overtake.

Late in the race Timo Glock seemed set for 3rd place until Nico Rosberg crossed the white line exiting the pits, earning him a drive through penalty and allowing Timo Glock to easily take 2nd place.

In qualifying for the 2009 Japanese Grand Prix, Timo Glock crashed heavily at the last corner and was airlifted to hospital with a leg injury.

On 11 October 2009, Toyota confirmed that its test driver Kamui Kobayashi would make his race debut in the Brazilian Grand Prix, as Timo Glock had suffered further complications from his accident, resulting in a cracked vertebra and he would not be guaranteed to be fit in time to race in Brazil and Abu Dhabi.

Timo Glock started the 2010 season with three successive retirements in Bahrain, Australia and Malaysia.

On 24 July 2011, it was announced that Timo Glock had signed a 3-year extension to his current contract, committing him to Virgin until 2014.

Marussia were forced to pull out of pre-season testing after failing a crash test for rear impact but eventually they passed allowing Timo Glock to compete in the opening race.

Timo Glock came 17th in Malaysia, and then scored two consecutive 19th-place finishes in China and Bahrain.

Timo Glock withdrew from the European Grand Prix after contracting a stomach bug.

Timo Glock finished the race 21st after battling with Michael Schumacher and Pedro de la Rosa.

Timo Glock finished 15th at Spa after a collision with Pastor Maldonado.

Timo Glock suffered no damage and finished ahead of his teammate as they battled in the final stages of the race while getting lapped by other cars.

In Japan Timo Glock was up to 11th by the second lap after two first corner incidents, however he finished 16th.

Timo Glock encountered Schumacher again in Abu Dhabi and let him pass to overtake Heikki Kovalainen who was in the crucial 12th place needed to demote Marussia to 11th in the Constructors' Championship.

Timo Glock claimed this 'destroyed his race' with Petrov ultimately passing Charles Pic to take 10th spot for Caterham in the championship.

Timo Glock switched to the DTM in 2013, signing for BMW.