Timo Glock recalls initial confusion - and accusations - about Brazil 2008 F1 finale
Amid a late rain shower in the closing stages of the final round in Brazil꧟, Toyota opted to keep both their drivers - including Glock - on dry tyres in a bid to gain positions.&nbsꦫp;
With most of the fi🦹eld pitting for wets, Toyota’s gamble proved to be the wrong call when the rain intensified with✃ only three laps remaining.
Glock, struggling to stay on track, tip-toed around the final lap to claim sixth place, but lost a place to McLaren’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton at the final corner, a position change which had dramatic consequences for 💃the title fight.
Fifth place꧋ gave Hamilton the position he needed to beat Ferrari’s Felipe Massa, who convincingly won the race, to claim his maiden F1 world championship.
Glock’s German nationality led to claims in the media that he had purposely helped the McLℱaren-Mercedes team, and he was subjected to wild acไcusations.
But as he told the , Glock had no id🌳ea about the magnitude of what had just happened, and was shocked when he was flocked by journalists immediately after thꦦe race.
“I never thought this would happen to me,” Glock said. “We tried to just do our race and make the maximum out of it and at the end we gained positions by staying out, but no one told me that I’m the guy who d🌸ecided the championship.
“Even when I came back after th༺e race and I parked behind Lewis, I asked my engineer who won the championship and he said, ‘It’s Lewis’. I went to Lewis, said congratulations, walked away and this whole bunch of journalists ran down. I thought, ‘OK, they’re all going to Lewis’, so I stepped aside. Then they all came to me!
“I was asked these weird questions like, ‘Was it on purpose?’, ‘Why did you do that?’, blah, blah, blah. I was like, ‘What’s🦋 going on here?’꧃ I had no idea.
“My physiotherapist 💛came to 𒉰me, grabbed me, pulled me back to the pits and explained to me what really happened. I said, ‘OK, now I understand what’s going on’. It’s part of F1 history.”
Glock previously revealed he and his family were sen🐲t death threats for years afterwards.
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