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Glock chose Virgin as 'safer option'
ESPNF1 Staff
March 10, 2010
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Timo Glock is happy with his decision to join Virgin © Getty Images
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Timo Glock says he decided to join Virgin over Sauber and Renault because the new British team was a safer employment option for the 2010 season.
With Toyota leaving the sport, it had been thought Glock would to move to Renault to become Robert Kubica's team-mate, while Sauber was also an option.
"In purely sporting terms, they would have been very good options," he told Frankfurter Rundschau. "But with Sauber they were facing a very long wait to be clear they were going to be [in F1]. Renault was high on my list, but then came their [takeover] situation. I said to myself that if it doesn't work out for either of them, I will be left at the end with nothing.
"And I'm just a man who likes something new and exciting."
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