By Phil Giles
January 20 2004

Jordan's first test session of 2004 got underway at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona today with German driver Timo Glock at the wheel.

Timo's day wasn't a successful as he had hoped.  Not used to F1, the car under-steered and he left the track at the final turn.  The rear end of the car caught fire but was repaired before the end of the day. "It was an unbelievably great experience for me to drive a Formula One car here in Barcelona. The power and brakes are really strong compared to anything I have driven and the aerodynamics are obviously a big step up from F3 – you can drive through corners faster and brake later.  It’s my dream to race in F1 and I hope I can drive an F1 car again soon.  Testing is the first step so we’ll see what happens.“

"We had a good start to the day but during the morning we lost a small amount of track time to a misfire which was eventually pinned down to electrical problems, costing us about an hour. Dominic (Harlow) and Timo (Glock) pushed on with programme and completed 44 laps in the morning and during lunch we made a number of changes in our test plan  fitting development parts for EJ14." said James Robinson, Head of Race and Test Engineering

"We began the afternoon programme  testing these items, however a trip into the gravel curtailed running for a time.  Timo resumed testing duties some time after and finished the day with a number of runs on new tyres , his fastest lap time of 1:19.62 demonstrates a pretty good effort." He continued.

Eddie commented “For a first time in a Formula One car, to do over 50 laps of a Grand Prix circuit at the pace he did was very impressive.  It would be nice to see if he can build on this.”