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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.
h9 ]* b5 j$ B$ K0 `2 hWickens 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.
( E; L T$ K& @6 y; D( ^+ |The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
, a, y1 k! s! X4 [* l W“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.
4 Z: \; ?8 @! O) N" c4 h5 T9 xTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
/ ]9 o* |0 S$ ]2 Stvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“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.
5 d+ g7 ~( I# W3 s7 D( v“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.5.39.217.77$ d) v* A% r T f( }) x( D) R
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。% U& a! q8 ~3 B7 ^6 Z3 k
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.8 v6 X* }5 C8 r4 J/ a
Team-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. |