Glock: McLaren wind tunnel work a boost
The Banbury-based outfit first entered the sport as Virgin Racing back in 2010, competing with a solely CFD-designed car. Since then, it has substantially widened its research methods, something which fills Glock with optimism.
"I think the wind tunnel work paid off since we went to McLaren, and that looks very positive for the future," he said. "It was a difficult year in 2012 with a very difficult start; going to Australia with no testing. But I think since then we've improved the car quite a lot.
"I didn't think that we'd close the gap as we were 1.5 seconds off Caterham, then we closed it very quickly over the second half of the season, which is great."
Glock's new team-mate, Max Chilton, is also optimistic about Marussia's chances in 2013. The Briton, who is preparing for his Formula 1 debut, says the performance projections made by Technical Consultant Pat Symonds are extremely encouraging.
"The car sounds very, very good," Chilton told GPUpdate.net. "With the addition of KERS as well, that’s just free time. There’s no loss of time by installing it. KERS in itself would put us further up the grid and if we’re having the car they say we will then it’s going to be a very promising year. Pat seems to think we’ve found a lot."
Marussia and Caterham, the two surviving teams from the three which joined Formula 1 ahead of the 2010 campaign, are yet to record a points-scoring result. How pathetic is that? Consider that for decades only the top-6 finishers in any F1 race garnered points. Now the top-10 do and they still have yet to score a point.