Andrew Glock

"What an amazing young star! I'm honored to have had the chance to race him at all!" - Daniel Ricciardo, 2021 F1 World Champion.

"I may bear my father's last name, but Andrew bears his skill." - Mick Schumacher, 2021 Ford Performance F1 Driver.

"As a racer, I knew I was something special. But Andrew, at 15 years old, was already worlds ahead of where I ever was." - Mario Andretti, 1978 F1 World Champion.

**Andrew Glock** (born October 5th, 1998) is a race driver for the Ford Performance Haas F1 Team, paired with Mick Schumacher. He is also a brand ambassador of Dorilton Capital and Ford. He is a former Formula 4, Formula Ford, Formula 3, and Formula 2 champion, as well as the winner of the 2019 Indianapolis 500, 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans, 2021 Dakar Rally, and the 2023 Formula One World Champion.

## Early Life

Andrew Glock (no relation to Timo Glock) was born in 1998 in Tampa, Florida, USA. He is the first and only child of first-generation Andhra Pradesh immigrants Raj Glock and Mamatha Glock. Growing up, he was a big fan of motorsport in general, but his parents never had enough money to fund his dream.

When Glock was 10 years old, his family moved to Maryland, away from any famous racetracks, so his passion for the sport died somewhat, until they moved again to New York when he was 14. In the Connecticut suburbs, he found good roads to practice racing on.

Glock has no idea where his family name comes from because as far as he knows, "No German was ever related to me by blood."

In the time between his Formula 3 and Formula 2 careers, Andrew Glock went to school in Connecticut.

## Racing Career

### Karting

At 15 years old, in 2013, Andrew Glock got a special surprise. His dad Raj pulled some strings and got him a seat in a national karting competition at Nazareth Speedway, Pennsylvania, attended by Mario Andretti. In a rainy race, Glock rose from last to first place.

### Formula 4 (2014)

Glock's heroics in the karting championship landed him a seat in the Formula 4 Series. The condition was that Glock had to get 10th place or higher in order to get enough sponsorship money to continue. But despite supposedly being overmatched, Glock outright won the 2014 Formula 4 series in his first year. The public didn't really pay attention to him after this, but Mario Andretti did and he reprised the line told to *him* by Jim Clark: "When you're ready, Andrew, give me a call and you can join Formula Ford."

### Formula Ford (2015)

After dominating the Formula 4 series in 2015, Glock started to get some recognition from motorsport names.

### Formula 3 (2016)

In Formula 3, Andrew had forged a close relationship not just with Mario Andretti, but Ralf Schumacher as well. He started to get noticed more often as he dominated the series, facing no real competition except for Charles Leclerc.

## Indianapolis 500 (2019)

"It's not every day a special entry like this is granted, so obviously all our eyes were on Andrew Glock. But when we got out on the circuit for qualifying, I knew this guy was a force to be reckoned with." - 6-time IndyCar champion and former Indianapolis 500 winner Scott Dixon on Andrew Glock

Andrew Glock entered the 2019 Indianapolis 500 in the place of Marco Andretti, who had fallen sick a week before qualifying day. The move was controversial, because it was widely believed that Colton Herta was supposed to take Andretti's place.

Famously, no one put their bets on Glock to do anything notable. And yet, defying all odds, he made it to the Super 9 shootout. In the shootout itself, Glock hit 265 miles an hour along the straight between turns two and three, and barely edged Scott Dixon for pole position.

Wave after wave of drivers kept coming to take the lead away from him. Glock had high nerves throughout the race, but somehow controlled himself just enough to lead every lap of the race, surpassing Billy Arnold's record of 198 laps. In addition, he was 20 years, 226 days old when he won, surpassing the previous record set by Troy Ruttman, who was 22 years, 80 days old.

## 24 Hours of Le Mans (2020)

Glock was able to hunt down the No. 6 and 7 Toyotas by responding to their fast pace in the final half-hour of the race, and the No. 95 SCG-Ford was the first to finish, after a record 400 laps, achieving the first Le Mans win for Glock, Sargeant, and Crawford, and Ford's fifth. Their lead engineer, Serena Schneider, was the first female race engineer to win the event since Leena Gade 9 years prior. Kamui Kobayashi, in the No. 7 Toyota, followed 0.303 seconds later in second, for the closest recorded Le Mans finish; and the No. 8 Toyota, driven by Kazuki Nakajima, completed the podium 0.527 seconds behind in third.

## Formula 1 (2021-)

### 2021 Season

Andrew Glock made frequent Free Practice appearances for Haas, always in place of Nikita Mazepin. He would also make appearances for Alfa Romeo (later Koenigsegg) in 2021, substituting for Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi. Even in the VF-21, he managed to top the timing sheets on 3 occasions: Britain, Germany and Belgium. In the Alfa Romeo C-40, he topped the timing sheets once, at Monaco.

Glock's Free Practice appearances at Haas became legendary, as all of his fastest laps ended up being more than half a second quicker than anyone else in the Qualifying rounds. Sebastian Vettel's pole time at Germany in 2021 was a 1:12:063. By comparison, Glock's FP1 flying lap was a 1:11:483, almost 6 tenths quicker than Ricciardo, and almost 3 tenths quicker than Lewis Hamilton's pole time in Germany 2019. Daniel Ricciardo's pole time in the 2021 British Grand Prix was 1:25:318, whereas Glock's FP1 flying lap was a 1:24:221, more than a second quicker than Ricciardo. And last of all, Lando Norris set a pole time of 1:41:798 at the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix, but Glock's FP1 flying lap was a 1:41:118, more than 6 tenths quicker than Norris.

### 2022 Season

Glock's 2022 season is widely regarded as one of the most heroic rookie seasons of all time. In the Australian Grand Prix, he finished 13th out of 32 drivers, but in Singapore, he finished 4th. He took his maiden Formula One podium and victory at the 2022 Italian Grand Prix. He would proceed to win once again in Canada, and the United States. He finished the season with a 4th place in Brazil, and 5th in the World Driver's Championship, just 10 points off of Alex Lynn.

### 2023 Season

Following the end of the 2022 season, Andrew Glock was a hot favorite for the 2023 World Title. However, while leading the Australian Grand Prix, he had a partial engine failure which dropped him down to 15th place. He immediately picked up form, winning in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan. A lap 1 collision in China forced him to pit on the very first lap, but he recovered quickly to finish the race in 4th place. Glock came out second-best to his teammate Mick Schumacher in Bahrain and Azerbaijan, before a triumphant win in Turkey and a dominant win in Monaco.

By the end of the season, Glock had reached the point where winning the US Grand Prix would grant him the World Title, regardless of what happened in Brazil.

## Controversy

### Rivalry with Charles Leclerc

"People think I'm very fierce against Sebastian Vettel, or Lewis Hamilton, or Max Verstappen. But really, it was Andrew Glock who brought out the best in me." - Charles Leclerc, when asked about his rivalry with Andrew Glock.

The 2016 Formula 3 season was famous because Andrew Glock dominated, and the only person capable of stopping him was Charles Leclerc, who won 3 Formula 3 Grands Prix and finished on the podium 10 times.

### Ferrari Junior Academy

Mattia Binotto, having taken over from Arrivabene, accepts a “donation” from everyone’s least favorite Brit. It is mysteriously announced that Glock has been booted from the Ferrari Academy and told to look at racing “elsewhere”. He ultimately does not participate in any FIA competitions that year.

## Personal Life

### Relationship with Andretti Family

Over the years, Andrew Glock has grown very close to his mentor Mario Andretti. Mario, as well as his son Michael Andretti, both said that they saw some of themselves in Glock, and so they mentored him.

### Relationship with Schumacher Family

In addition to the Andrettis, Glock has also become a close friend to the Schumacher family. Glock has a tight friendship with both Mick and David Schumacher. Ralf Schumacher has also overseen his journey somewhat.

Glock has also had a unique opportunity to meet Michael Schumacher.

"One day, in 2019, I was in Switzerland and Mick called me to his house. He asked me if I wanted to meet his father, and I said yes, albeit a bit uneasily. When I got there, Mick was suddenly very quiet. I asked him why and he didn't say anything. Then, he accidentally creaked a floorboard, and Corinna (his mother) came running. She looked at me like she was gonna kill me, and to be fair I couldn't blame her. She then proceeded to aggressively yell at Mick in German. I think she said something along the lines of, 'Who the fuck is this kid?'. Then I think Mick explained to her who I was, and she started saying something to *me* in German. Mick told her 'Mom, he doesn't understand German.' and she said that Mick told her a lot about me and she's seen me racing and such. Normally she doesn't allow people to visit at all, but she actually encouraged me to go see Michael. When the three of us reached his room, and I saw Michael, it felt surreal. He actually knew who I was, he was pointing at me and then pointing at the screen - it was my interview after winning the Indy 500. And that's how I knew Mick saw me as family."

### Personality

On the racetrack, Andrew Glock is a menacing, aggressive powerhouse, and he says he has been made over the years to handle anything the others throw at him. By comparison, in real life, Glock is quite soft-spoken and antisocial. He is known for being rather awkward, as seen by his press conferences. However, Mick Schumacher has said that Glock as a close friend is “quite eccentric, passionate, and if nothing else, American.” He went on, “In terms of maturity, sometimes he reminds me of my father, and other friends times he reminds me of my cousin David.”

### Residence

Andrew Glock officially lives in Cos Cob, Connecticut, but has residences in Kannapolis, North Carolina, USA, Detroit, Michigan, USA, Northampton, England, and Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

### Car accident

On December 20th, 2021, Gene Haas and Bill Ford summoned him and Mick Schumacher to Detroit, saying that they would officially sign their 5-year contracts. But soon after he landed there, as he was walking out of the airport, he was run over by an INEOS Grenadier. The doctors wanted to pronounce him dead on the spot, but he was very barely breathing when he was loaded into the ambulance. He was in a coma when they reached the hospital.