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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.
* t8 h: e4 @( @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.
; v4 e ]8 e; s1 I. h. F* a& f/ }& Q公仔箱論壇The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
5 _' d8 R( L7 H# k# @/ O0 dtvb 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.5.39.217.779 h# J6 `5 O5 \ C- }; Q
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
* n6 b8 s r7 M( h“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.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。1 t, h: R5 k1 y1 Z
“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.
$ t8 O2 n* B) {* }! E“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
+ E# m2 P: K7 ?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。Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
" P5 o0 B3 @; `# E) ftvb now,tvbnow,bttvbTeam-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. |