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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.
6 M- Y7 _$ L3 E公仔箱論壇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.
% ^* M( S: W# ^) B y* m0 hThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
1 T1 M9 e9 B. qTVBNOW 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.& L8 C- @( b6 K8 d6 r% @( n' X
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
% n3 j0 |) t3 l- C% H% Qtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“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.公仔箱論壇- q/ G$ V* ]7 o7 @ k* O {
“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 X/ q& t+ l/ f/ f D
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”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。/ R/ Q' s; J1 s, r2 t W! T& W
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
7 f2 V! k, w/ y1 I( E5 z, @tvb 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. |