Timo Glock

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

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

Born in Lindenfels, West Germany, Glock began his motorsport career in 1998 at the age of 15.

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

In his first German Formula Three Championship season in 2002, he finished third in the standings en route to rookie of the year honours.

In 2003, he competed in the Formula Three Euroseries, winning three races and scoring three other podium finishes, which were enough to place him in fifth position in the Championship.

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.

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

His best finish was second place at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve at the Molson Indy Montreal in Canada, where he was defeated by Oriol Servia.

In the closing laps of the race Glock twice retained the lead over Servia by missing the track's final Chicane.

As the rules require drivers who gain or retain a position by driving off the racing surface to give way, Glock was asked to move over by Champ Car officials, and let Servia take the lead.

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

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

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

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

In mid-season, however, he moved to the front-running iSport team and after a string of improved results finished fourth in the drivers' standings, also winning an award for "most improved driver" in the series.

In he tested an F1 car again for BMW Sauber, which led to him being signed in December as the team's second test driver for.

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

Following the serious crash of regular Formula One BMW driver Robert Kubica in Canada, it was speculated that Glock might take over the drive.

However, the team instead chose its lead test driver Sebastian Vettel.

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 Glock was then promoted to the main test and reserve driver for BMW.

After winning the GP2 Series in 2007, Glock was connected to several F1 teams.

He 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 Glock was free to race for Toyota in and shortly afterwards Glock signed a three-year contract to replace Ralf Schumacher at Toyota.

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

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

Glock qualified a career-best fifth at the Hungarian Grand Prix, and finished the race in second place.

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

In the final race of the 2008 season, the Brazilian Grand Prix, Glock was seventh with a few laps to go when it started to rain.

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

The decision to stay out moved Glock up the order, ahead of Hamilton on track.

Starting the final lap, Glock was fourth but was struggling on his dry-weather tyres as the rain intensified.

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

Hamilton regained fifth place to win the 2008 Drivers' Championship.

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

After being in the top 10 in all three practice sessions in Australia, Glock qualified 6th on the grid.

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

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

Glock's sponsorship with Deutsche Post helped bring back the colours of DHL to Jordan.

After leaving Formula One in 2013, Glock became a works driver for BMW in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, driving for BMW Team MTEK, and achieved his first DTM podium at the Red Bull Ring, and a first win at the season finale at the Hockenheimring.