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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.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。$ t" t, y( Q+ Z( R$ I' W. M: k
Wickens 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.
% a# W5 r+ I5 B/ UTVBNOW 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。The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
# S& B4 H* B n6 C" q: I* Gtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“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 ]+ ] f) G# ?& g
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
7 \+ f6 s+ J5 mtvb 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.
& \; ]- @" B/ q8 N' q3 Z; Ttvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“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.
: K( E% G/ q5 e0 g" gtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
! s, C0 c/ m( d* ]- t5 VDespite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.公仔箱論壇2 s' {( ` Z& m* z# x, Y) H
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. |