Glock finds Virgin glitches frustrating

Timo Glock admitted that life at Virgin was proving tougher than expected after mechanical problems limited him to just 11 laps in practice today.The German said he was optimistic about the car's fundamental pace - but frustrated with its fragility."Today hasn't been the start to the weekend that we hoped for," he said."We always knew it was going to be tough but we've had too many technical problems which have prevented me getting track time today."We already had two tough nights but we have another one ahead, I'm afraid, to get us to a point where we can feel confident going into the rest of the weekend."On the positive side, if we can get on top of the issues we have we'll be in an okay place because with the brief amount of running I have had, I can see that the car isn't bad."I hope we can be ready to get some proper work done tomorrow."Technical director Nick Wirth said there had been a litany of problems for Virgin today."Due to the late arrival of some key new components, we had to work all through last night to have the cars running today, which is not ideal," he said."Thankfully, we haven't had a re-occurrence of any of the problems that blighted our winter testing."However, we found some interesting new challenges today, ranging from some engine set-up issues which caused handling problems, to the high ambient conditions bizarrely causing off-car electronics to overheat, affecting our ability to communicate with the car."In addition, we had a small gearbox issue on Timo's car that hampered his running."Having said that, neither car ran low fuel and Timo was unable to test the super-soft tyre."See also:Lotus pleased with 'respectable' startKolles proud of Hispania's start