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F1: Glock Says Rest Of Field Should Be Grateful For New Teams
Add another veteran to those critical of the new teams on the grid...
SPEED Staff / GMM  |  Posted March 12, 2010   GMM Newswire
Nick Heidfeld arrived in Bahrain Thursday. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Nick Heidfeld has joined a chorus of voices who are critical of the new teams.

After gambling on securing a competitive race seat, the 32-year-old veteran - who arrived in Bahrain Thursday - ultimately had to settle for the reserve role at Mercedes GP.

Amid much criticism of F1's three uncompetitive new teams, Heidfeld is quoted as saying by the German-language Speedweek: "I stand by my decision to be here at Mercedes rather than standing still at the back."

Timo Glock, who has moved from the departed Toyota to one of the new teams, Virgin, tried to quite some of the criticism of the new teams including Lotus and HRT.

"I think some people have forgotten the difficult times until very recently in F1. We have only two (car) manufacturers still here.

"The other teams should be happy and grateful that we are making up the field," Glock told Auto Motor und Sport.

Lotus' Heikki Kovalainen, at McLaren for the past two seasons, said the din about four second gaps and dangerous closing speeds is just noise.

"It doesn't matter whether it (the laptime gap) is one and a half or four seconds," he told Finland's Turun Sanomat. "The drivers should be able to control their cars."

In fact during Friday’s first practice the Lotus cars were nearly five seconds off the leader on the timesheet.

Kovalainen has topped one timesheet in Bahrain. In the FIA test Thursday to prove a driver can get out of his car within 5 seconds, the 28-year-old leapt out of the green T127 and replaced the steering wheel in a record 3.4s.

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