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Hungarian optimism high for Glock

Timo Glock will be returning to the Hungaroring this week to race at the track on which the German achieved his first Formula One podium finish one year ago. With a poor qualifying performance leading to no points scoring at home in Germany last time out, the Toyota driver hopes for a return to the points.

One of the highlights of the 2008 German Grand Prix was the rearward impact suffered by Glock, made more impressive by the fact that Timo went on to clinch his first rostrum result only a fortnight later on the circuit located on the Budapest outskirts.

Timo finished second to Heikki Kovalainen in last season's Hungarian Grand Prix

"Obviously, Hungary is a special race in my career after the podium there last season," he said. "That was the first of several strong points finishes for me and I hope another competitive weekend there can get the ball rolling again this year. I am in a positive mood and optimistic that I can score again. It was disappointing to just miss the points at the last race, especially in front of my home fans, but I made up 11 places after starting from the pit lane so we have the potential to finish much higher."

Having held up Fernando Alonso on Saturday at the Nürburgring, an already bad result became worse when receiving a penalty. "One of my targets this weekend will be to get a perfect lap in qualifying because that has been an issue in the last couple of races, for various reasons," Timo admitted. "Lap times are really close this year so if you are a tenth or two off your maximum pace in qualifying you can drop a few positions and that makes life harder in the race - we'll be pushing as hard as possible and I am sure we will bounce back."

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