Timo Glock began Jordan Ford's first test of♎ 2004 today [Tuesday] in cold, dry conditions at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya, completing 53 laps with a quickest lap time of 1 minute 19.622 seconds at h🐓is first visit to the circuit and first outing in a Formula One car.

James Robinson, hℱead of race and test engineering explained: "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."

"We began the afternoon programme testing these items, however a trﷺip 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 of𒁃 1m 19.62s demonstrates a pretty good effort."

On his first F1 drive, Glock noted: "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 soo🃏n. Testing is the first step so we'll see what happens."

Team boss Eddie Jordan added: "For Timo Glock's first time in a Formula One car, to do over 50 laps of a Grand Pr🍸ix circuit at the pace he did was very impressive. It would be nice to see if he can build on 🧸this."

Bas Leinders will continue the test for the Silverstone based team to⛦morrow [Wednesday].