Toyota driver Glock finished in third position in the shortened race after deciding to pit for intermediates rather than full wets when the rain began to fall at Sepang.
While the rest of the field was struggling on extremes, Glock lapped up to 10 seconds quicker than his rivals and soon moved up the order, even taking the lead from Jenson Button.
In the end, Glock was overtaken by the Briton and, despite being second when the race was stopped, he had to settle for third due to the countback results.
"It was a tricky race, I have to say, but at the end one of the best races I could ever do," said Glock.
"I struggled a bit at the start, I don't know why we lost so many places. Fernando and Kimi were in front of me in the first corner and I didn't know where they'd come from. I think I was only P8 after the first lap.
"In the traffic it was really difficult. After five or six laps I already saw the clouds were coming and I kept asking 'when is the rain coming?'. They said it should come in the next couple of the minutes.
"Then I thought when it takes so long and we were so close to the first pitstop, I thought I'd take the risk and go to inters because I saw a Ferrari on heavy wets very early and knew they would be destroyed.
"So I said 'come on, go for inters and take the risk', and in the end it paid off."
The Toyota driver admitted he wasn't even sure about his position when the race was suspended.
"In the last two laps with the safety car it was so confusing because my engineer told me when I made the pitstop that I was leading the race, so I thought I wouldn't push because I wanted to save the tyres.
"Then I saw Jenson come out in front of me so I was P2, then I jumped out of the car and everyone said I was P2, and then when I came up here they said I was P3. Hopefully I will now stay in P3, that's what I'm hoping for."
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