{"id":17699,"date":"2013-01-30T06:55:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T11:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17699"},"modified":"2013-01-30T06:55:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T11:55:12","slug":"ecclestone-model-starving-small-teams-glock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-model-starving-small-teams-glock\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone model ‘starving’ small teams – Glock"},"content":{"rendered":"

F1’s funding model is ‘starving’ the smaller teams, Marussia refugee Timo Glock claims.<\/p>\n

\"Timo-Glock\"The 30-year-old German has had to leave formula one for the DTM touring car series for 2013, because Marussia need to replace him with a pay-driver.<\/p>\n

“I learned the hard way,” said Glock, “that it is extremely difficult for a small team to come out of the cellar.<\/p>\n

“The top teams get a lot of money from Bernie Ecclestone, starving the small teams a little bit.<\/p>\n

“Finding partners to improve the budget is increasingly difficult,” he insisted.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the smaller teams are apparently becoming increasingly reliant on ‘pay drivers’ to boost their coffers, and it is expected that – like Glock – the next victim of this trend will be Caterham’s Heikki Kovalainen.<\/p>\n

“There have always been pay drivers,” Glock admitted.\u00a0 “I won’t say that they have no talent.<\/p>\n

“Pastor Maldonado and Sergio Perez have proved that you can have good partners behind you and drive fast as well.\u00a0 It’s perfectly legitimate.<\/p>\n

“But it’s too bad that formula one is increasingly developing in this direction.”<\/p>\n

He said Marussia in particular was caught out by the political wranglings of a few years ago, when small teams’ interest was sparked by former FIA president Max Mosley’s plans for a budget cap.<\/p>\n

“The approach of building a car only with CFD could have worked if the budget cap had come in,” said Glock.\u00a0 “But it didn’t.<\/p>\n

“We then determined early on that you can’t do it just with CFD, you also need the wind tunnel, and by then the collaboration with McLaren had come too late.<\/p>\n

“Last year, we showed that we can make a step forward, and found more than 1.5 seconds (per lap).\u00a0 But in order to make the big step, you need double the budget.”<\/p>\n

Der Spiegel reported last week that Marussia only managed to vacate Glock’s cockpit for 2013 after paying him his retainer.<\/p>\n

He responded: “Then they know quite a lot, or more than I do.\u00a0 On contractual things I can’t say much.\u00a0 It’s mine and Marussia’s business only.”<\/p>\n

As for whether he has closed the chapter on F1, having reportedly signed a three-year contract with BMW, Glock insisted: “Let’s wait.<\/p>\n

“At the moment I’m focusing on what lies ahead.\u00a0 What happens in the next few years, we wait and see.”<\/p>\n

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