Timo Glock: ‘game over’, last-lap drama + F1 podiums

F1 Beyond The Grid

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🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

He was part of one of F1’s most dramatic finales, but there’s so much more to Timo Glock’s story than that rain-soaked lap in Brazil. A relative late-comer to racing, he quickly showed speed, made smart sponsorship deals and caught the attention of F1 teams. Timo tells Tom Clarkson about the surprise phone call which led to his points-scoring Grand Prix debut, the disappointment of dropping out of the sport, the moment he felt it was ‘game over’ for his racing career, and an all-or-nothing season which gave him a second chance at F1. With Toyota in 2008 and 2009, Timo scored podiums which proved he was worthy of a race-winning car. He reveals how agonisingly close he came to a career-transforming move in a pivotal period at the end of 2009, only to find himself racing at the back of the grid in 2010. Plus, his friendship with the Schumachers, the moment lawyers decided his F1 future and that final lap in Brazil in 2008: the ‘impossible’ action, the crazy reaction and an unlikely friendship that followed, ten years in the making.

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0:00.0	Formula One mourns the death of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Tributes have been paid
0:06.8	by members of the F1 community, including Formula One President and CEO Stefano Dominicale.
0:14.1	He sent his condolences to the Royal Family and said this,
0:17.4	For more than seven decades, her majesty dedicated her life to public service with dignity
0:23.8	and devotion and inspired so many around the world.
0:28.0	Queen Elizabeth II was present at the very first Formula One World Championship Grand Prix
0:33.2	at Silverstone in 1950. She bestowed knighthoods on four Formula One drivers during her 70-year
0:39.3	reign, most recently to Salois Hamilton. Her majesty also knighted Sustirling Moss,
0:45.5	Sir Jack Brabham and Sir Jackie Stewart. Formula One sends its deepest condolences to the
0:51.2	Royal Family and to the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
1:01.5	I bet I can answer the three-word question in your head right now. Yes, it's Glock.
1:07.9	Timo Glock. Maybe you know part of his story, the decisive,
1:12.4	reign-soap final lap of the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix.
1:17.0	You could see literally the reign how much it was. And as a guy that I need to come in,
1:20.9	it's impossible. I've not gone as a wife that last lap. It's impossible.
1:26.1	A bunch of cars overtaking me. My engineer just told me that Louis Hamilton was World Champion,
1:30.1	but he didn't tell me that I decided the championship.
1:33.2	On that dramatic afternoon, Louis Hamilton beat Philippe Amasser to the world title.
1:38.5	For Timo, the After Effects continued to this day, but there are many more amazing chapters
1:44.2	to Timo's tale, like his sudden call up to Formula One. A whirlwind weekend that began
1:50.3	with a bathroom phone call and ended in celebrations with Michael Schumacher. But soon after, he
1:56.6	fell out of the sport and totally wrote off his dreams.
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