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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.
3 \8 {5 H; W3 K6 |$ u7 g, Z$ vTVBNOW 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。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.公仔箱論壇, l+ l, z9 m" C: K$ }6 y
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
" ~) b' A2 Z! c1 q' n& A“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.0 R# h* A5 z- m$ ^; n2 d
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
6 E7 C) Z% C! r$ Z$ x; V- }公仔箱論壇“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.* S% I k+ l- K6 ^8 x
“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 J5 g) S7 B0 S) c公仔箱論壇“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”6 q8 a8 n; U% e* f- G; s
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.5.39.217.779 F/ t$ Y) C# k! P4 w% v& J1 `0 I' G
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. |
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