Timo's Glock

My question as to whom Toyota will replace Ralf Schumacher with seems to have been answered. While watching live coverage of the Chinese Friday practice around 3am, Peter Windsor said that Timo Glock would be Jarno Truli's new buddy. I hope this is the driver that Toyota have been looking for. In his first GP with Jordan in 2004 he got a point, albeit due to the fact that the Williams and Toyota's were disqualified, getting a Jordan to P11 is still pretty good. Timo won Rookie of the Year award in Champ Car in 2005 and this year won the GP2 Championship, furthering the fact that if you win the GP2 title you'll get snapped up by an F1 team. I'm assuming he isn't a pay driver any more considering Toyota is the most flush-with-cash team on the grid.

In other Chinese news Lewis Hamilton was cleared of any wrong doing in Japan. This is nice. What I'm most pleased about though is that Seb Vettel's 10 place grid penalty got wiped. All he had to do was bust out some more crocodile tears and the stewards couldn't help but revoke his grid penalty! In reality, that's not the case. It was a silly penalty to give out considering the horrid conditions out there and while it was a real big shame that he fucked up his and The Web's race, I truly think it was a racing incident in the extreme wet maybe or maybe not partially caused by Lew's mildly erratic driving behind the safety car. HOWEVER, as Lewis was the leader, it was up to him how he chose to control the pace of his car and the duty of the cars behind him to adjust accordingly. Not Hamilton's fault if they couldn't adjust quick enough.