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Glock unhurt in Toyota's pointless race

Timo Glock emerged unscathed from a high-speed accident in today's race while Toyota team mate Jarno Trulli slipped back from his fourth place on the grid to ninth, leaving Toyota pointless this weekend. 

"Timo is fine and there are no physical signs of injury," the team said in a statement. "He has been taken to a hospital for further precautionary checks. Further updates will be given as soon as they are available."

Jarno Trulli meanwhile commented, "That was a disappointing race for me because we had high hopes of scoring points today. Everything was looking good early in the race but after our second stop, when we switched our strategy because of the safety car, it became really difficult. I was having problems with the balance. I struggled a lot and in the last 10 laps it was really tough. But I was in eighth place and fighting really hard to get a point. I was holding off Vettel but unfortunately I locked up the front and couldn't recover so I lost the position. After that I lost more pace and wasn't able to push as hard as I wanted."

Team principal Tadashi Yamashina added, "For us the priority is that Timo is okay. At the moment it is too early to determine exactly what the cause of the incident was but of course we are investigating. He was doing a strong race and was looking set for another points finish so it was a real pity. Timo's accident brought out the safety car and that was a key point for Jarno, because he pitted and changed to prime tyres. He was not happy with the balance of the car after that and his pace suffered. Here as well we have to analyse more the reasons for this because, after the outstanding pace we showed earlier in the weekend, this was unexpected. It has been a difficult day but we must look forward and fight to have both cars in the points at the next race."

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