Met ZTimo Glock in Montreal and chatted for 20 mins - Thoughts on best driver misc

We were having some drinks on the Terrace of Villnueve's restaurant Saturday afternoon after qualifying and Glock and his team were up there as well waiting for a sponsor event. I just started talking to him and surprisingly he was up for talking to someone different and he chatted with me for about 20mins.

The short version - I asked him who he thought the very best driver was. At first he gave me a PR answer of "It is difficult to say as there are many variables." I asked him to cut to it and he said it has to be Alonso combining skill, being ruthless and ability to give the engineers feedback on the car.

We talked different cars on the grid and what makes one special over another and his short answer was quote "Adrian Newey is a God"

He talked about the Pirelli Tires and he likes them as it is better for the show and also allows different cars to take advantage of different tracks based on compounds. He talked about how the Ferrari is a solid car but only excels with the compounds like those seen in Monoco and Montreal.

We talked about family, and just regular BS, took a couple of pictures and then they went to the sponsor dinner.

All in all a cool experience. Obviously I would have liked to have met other drivers in the same atmosphere but i am not sure they would have gladly given me the almost half hour glock did

 

The other comment of note is that a guy standing a few feet away from me was making fun of Nascar (I am not a fan myself of it but i did not say anything). GLock said he didn't know what he was talking about and that it takes a lot of talent to drive those cars with the changing track conditions during an event being the main difficulty. He said he would like the chance to compete in one potentially down the road