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Glock's departure a loss that highlights larger issues
By Phillip Horton on Monday, January 21, 2013 The news that Timo Glock and Marussia have parted company is a shame for the sport, as it loses a fast and fan-friendly driver that could have won races in the right machinery. Glock joins a long list of drivers to have found themselves as an outcast ahead of the 2013 season, as well as the eventual demise of Spanish minnows HRT, which highlights the financial problems that the remaining eleven teams are battling.
The term ‘pay driver’ gets banded about on a regular basis, but in truth, the majority of drivers need substantial backing to even make it into the sport in the first place. Just ask drivers such as Robert Wickens, who never even...
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