[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.; u' T6 L+ L# w: x
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.5.39.217.778 J) ?' J) c) u0 B2 O0 U
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
: x$ r2 y9 X1 O% q# z, ztvb 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.
; f) O" r; w/ U; m) V6 z2 B* U“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
& I( F, M! r/ @7 h. c6 [tvb 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.公仔箱論壇3 R" U5 h( @6 k. s
“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.5.39.217.774 l; E7 K* l1 ^6 N: Y' L! {2 S/ [
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
) P* U1 m3 {3 w4 ~Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.公仔箱論壇, R7 o' F, _/ M! F/ A4 [
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.