After a successful karting career the young German moved up to Formula BMW in 2000, winning the ADAC Junior Championship at his first attempt before repeating the performance the following year in the full championship. Moving up to German F3 with the KMS Motorsport team in 2002 proved to be a big step and Glock found little success, however a second year with KMS in 2003 yielded 3 wins and 5th place in the championship - enough to catch the eye of Eddie Jordan who signed the young German to be the teams official test driver for the 2004 Grand Prix season.

A dispute between Giorgio Pantano and his management team just before the Canadian GP led to Glock getting his first Formula One start. Driving a steady race, he was one of those that benefited greatly from the disqualification of both Williams and both Toyota cars netting him two very valuable championship points. Pantano returned for the US GP and Glock went back to the Friday test driver role for several races. Later in the season Jordan and Pantano once again ran into "sponsorship problems" and parted ways before the inaugural Chinese GP, returning Glock to the race team for the final three GP of the season.

Without a ride in 2005 Glock went to the USA and ran a competitve season with Rocketsports Racing in the ChampCar Championship before returning to Europe in 2006 and racing in GP2. As well as testing for BMW Sauber, the German stayed in GP2 for 2007 and took the title driving for iSport. The title led to him being offered the vacant Toyota seat for 2008, where he acquitted himself well alongside the vastly more experienced Jarno Trulli.

Formula One Record

2007 FIA GP2 Champion
2001 German Formula BMW ADAC Champion
2000 German Formula BMW ADAC Junior Champion

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