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Small F1 teams stuck in vicious circle claims Glock
29 January, 2013 Timo Glock has lamented the pay driver trend that is afflicting back of the grid F1 teams.
The salaried German has been dropped by Marussia mid-contract, with the backmarker team openly admitting it needs to replace him with a sponsored driver.
30-year-old Glock has switched to DTM with BMW.
'A few years ago,' he told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, 'if the gap (to the front teams) was one or two centimetres, now it is ten.'
Indeed, HRT has folded, Marussia has cleared space for a second pay-driver, and Caterham is yet to announce a teammate for Charles Pic — and it is unlikely to be the highly rated Heikki Kovalainen.
'As long as this model (in F1)...
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