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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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb% E0 g. y/ q9 W& q* D% d n
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) x i$ I F6 ]6 }+ vThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
# q" L* l& {2 F0 mTVBNOW 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’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.
. n8 w5 s- v! i2 \" F, M) X9 x5.39.217.77“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb0 i9 X% d5 D3 A5 s
“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.
7 I8 {! n g5 d; U公仔箱論壇“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.
7 n, _( |* F+ w u$ d5.39.217.77“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”公仔箱論壇3 ^) [, j- q6 N0 t5 `
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
2 c G5 O2 F$ ~2 RTeam-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. |