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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$ _3 M8 b g C: ?% _3 b
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.
/ Q& ` O1 x4 Y9 F2 dtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
8 X' \4 I c# F7 M“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.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。, A" B: Q6 k1 T8 ~) Q4 y, ~# r
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
$ I3 |# Y/ ^" p% x; S% Y( 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.
. i0 G$ v5 C( O. I* v5.39.217.77:8898“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.; P: t# Q# v2 K) O0 T& q
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”公仔箱論壇0 ?0 g% j0 ]5 z7 D
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
7 ~; |: I6 A* u O5.39.217.77:8898Team-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. |