Timo Glock is looking for an improvement from Virgin Racing before committing long-term to the new British team.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Despite interest from established teams for this year, the German signed with Virgin with a contract that is believed to be for a multiple-season term.<\/p>\n
The team has notably struggled for pace and reliability, with Glock only notching up his first finish of the season last weekend in Spain.<\/p>\n
That was with the much-vaunted updated VR-01 car featuring a bigger fuel tank, which was not substantially faster in Barcelona than the older model still driven by Lucas di Grassi.<\/p>\n
Asked if he is already contemplating how to extract himself from his long contract, 28-year-old Glock said on Tuesday: “If the situation never changed, eventually you would have those sorts of thoughts.<\/p>\n
“But at the moment I’m not thinking about that, and neither am I walking around looking for somewhere else (to drive).\u00a0 We have to wait for a few more races and then see,” Glock told motorsport-total.com.<\/p>\n
He admitted that the updated car did not work “as expected” around the Circuit de Catalunya.<\/p>\n
“Especially on Friday it was a disaster because I was even slower than the old car.\u00a0 What’s going on, I don’t know.<\/p>\n
“At least we have sorted out the tank.\u00a0 The fuel supply (issue) for qualifying is significantly improved, but the aero updates have not worked in the way we wanted.”<\/p>\n
Virgin’s technical boss Nick Wirth is famously developing the VR-01 car with only computer technology, and asked if the lack of a wind tunnel is hurting the team, Glock answered “I don’t know.”<\/p>\n
\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Timo Glock is looking for an improvement from Virgin Racing before committing long-term to the new British team.<\/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":[5326,5262,5261,5340,123,457,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270"}],"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=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}