{"id":15571,"date":"2012-03-23T07:17:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T11:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15571"},"modified":"2012-03-25T21:17:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:17:33","slug":"glock-happy-fans-still-rate-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/glock-happy-fans-still-rate-ability\/","title":{"rendered":"Glock happy fans still rate ability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timo Glock has revealed he is happy to know F1 spectators still rate his talents.<\/p>\n<p>2012 is the 30-year-old&#8217;s third consecutive season with backmarkers Marussia (formerly Virgin), after an impressive earlier career at Toyota.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Timo-Glock-car.jpg\" alt=\"Timo-Glock-car\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>But a recent online poll in Germany showed that a majority of his countrymen think he would be a worthy successor at Mercedes for Michael Schumacher, should the seven time world champion return to retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very positive that the fans who follow the races on TV are still able to say &#8216;Glock could still do it if he had a fast car,&#8221; he is quoted by Auto Bild.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, he will have to wait even for an improved car, with the first real fruits of Marussia&#8217;s tie-up with McLaren not expected until the European race season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our current car was still built just with CFD,&#8221; Glock told Auto Motor und Sport.\u00a0 &#8220;The first concept of the car was already done when we went for the first time into the McLaren wind tunnel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timo Glock has revealed he is happy to know F1 spectators still rate his talents. 2012 is the 30-year-old&#8217;s third consecutive season with backmarkers Marussia (formerly Virgin), after an impressive earlier career at Toyota. But a recent online poll in Germany showed that a majority of his countrymen think he would be a worthy successor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,2361,457],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15617,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions\/15617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}