[賽車] Robert Wickens rues missed pole position ， 描述： DTM

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Mercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.
/ {$ p4 e8 }; x/ x) N  s8 v% @5.39.217.77Wickens told the official DTM channel: “we waited for too long to do my hot-lap, then it started raining” after he was unable to improve on his best time of 1m21.185 in the wet Q2 session.
! u5 ~* k2 ?' @4 ~. Y) F0 z: k0 \. h5.39.217.77The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
& u( c: b( j- p! J# w) O: B8 M$ K% \3 Q公仔箱論壇“It’s altogether a great pity because I think we have a good car, good enough even to progress to Q4 and on to pole position with a little bit of luck.
5 r! u; t: L& g8 I5.39.217.77“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
0 M% X3 A* y, T% ^& G“Unfortunately, things only went well for us in Q1. We waited too long to go out in Q2 [and] it was already raining a bit on the outlap.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb  Q0 O4 ?$ j& J& F6 W  r
“On the first timed lap, the rain was even heavier, and the track was so wet on the second hot lap that a decent time was no longer possible.公仔箱論壇/ J. {% |7 |8 O8 }$ \3 N4 G
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
6 Y6 p9 d7 {; MDespite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
% p8 g* Z4 w8 D7 ]* q$ g# p* G5.39.217.77Team-mate Gary Paffett will line up 12th after taking a five place grid-drop penalty for using the incorrectly allocated tyres in the free practice session.