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Glock hopes bad luck run is over

Timo Glock is hoping that he has used up all of his bad luck in this year's GP2 Series ahead of the season finale at Valencia

The German driver is just two points ahead of Lucas di Grassi after 19 races, mainly because he has failed to score points in eight races this year, while the Brazilian has only missed out on points three times.

One of di Grassi's non-scores came at Monza, and Glock had opened up an 11-point lead before he had a disastrous weekend at Spa.

Glock's car was left stranded on the grid with a clutch problem in the first race, and he was then unable to start the second race of the weekend after he collided with Ricardo Risatti on the way to the grid.

"It was a horrible weekend in Spa and I could not believe it," Glock told autosport.com. "I just hope I have used up all the bad luck.

"I did not do anything different in the start of the first race (at Spa) and the clutch did not work as it had in the last 16 races or so.

"In the second one, I got pushed out, and Risatti blamed me! I couldn't believe both of my suspension arms were broken but his were ok."

The German admitted that he is concerned by the small gap to di Grassi, who has adopted a consistent approach for the majority of the season, and has often not had the speed to match the iSport driver.

The BMW Sauber F1 team's third driver also admitted that for once he is hoping that he will not be called up to replace one of the team's regular race drivers for the Japanese Grand Prix, which clashes with the GP2 season finale on September 29-30.

"Of course I am concerned with such little difference to di Grassi with one race weekend, I really want the title," he said.

"But should anything happen to either of them (Nick Heidfeld or Robert Kubica) then I have to go to Japan.

"I just hope I will not need to. For once I do prefer GP2 to F1, as I really want the title."

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