Cologne - This guy has nerves of steel! Still 13 days until the Formula 1 season starting in Melbourne, and Timo Glock (25) voluntarily a daring balancing act.
While filming the RTL view "F1 Made in Germany" (March 15, poised 11.45 clock), the Toyota Star over a steel girder on the roof of the Cologne University Hospital - 95 meters in height! Without a net or safety line.
The daring scene reminiscent of the legendary black-and-white photos of the 30s: death-defying men posing on the skyscraper construction sites in New York. Glock is concentrated, but smiles. The Hesse scaffolder. He knows what he's doing.
Glock on the roofs of Cologne! EXPRESS is live performances and talks with Toyota's hope about parallels between the old and current job, fear of a misstep, as well as prospects for his first full season.
Timo Glock on his second leg ... ... I have started my training in 2001 and finished as the best scaffolders Hesse. But then my father meant that I very well may be driving and I want to focus on it. This has worked so well even now, fortunately, but if I had to stop in Formula 1 times, for whatever reasons, to have absolutely no problem with that, I return to this profession because I made him very happy.
... That what unites the two professions: the concentration. To provide both technical challenges, and it is both hard work. The refinement of situations, ie how to read the next few moments on the track, I have been able already on the site. I have a good eye. When I stand in front of a building, I know exactly how it should look a scaffold.
... Must be a balancing act at Toyota: the last test in Barcelona (ten places behind team-mate Jarno Trulli, d.Red.) Was more difficult for me, but had more to do with the temperatures and the hard tires. We have a completely new aerodynamics, You do not understand from one day to another. The car has potential and we hope to come to Australia to compete.
... To be afraid, only number 2: We will try to close the gap with the top teams. But I do not expect too much at the beginning, because Jarno just the basic philosophy of the car better known. One advantage he can play. I try dranzukommen as close as possible, all I can do at present.
