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- ~) @7 K! Y$ c. g" e公仔箱論壇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+ @7 O# E9 c( }1 A8 j6 m
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.
& J: F7 [1 R9 E$ |+ ~) V6 ~* ^The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
, ?/ i8 r' `& o3 S! A$ h: Y“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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb9 [9 n3 @5 f8 f) a0 O3 ?
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
! E$ S- C0 Z8 Q2 m0 L% p“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 g3 O- y+ [3 H4 v' F2 C7 }5 [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。“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.
. Q5 ^5 V3 N) Ntvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
9 H! @# R+ b( @# ~4 M' DDespite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.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。7 o6 n: x) |7 M) Z- p; B3 V
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. |