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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.
2 P& S; k1 E5 gWickens 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.
6 f, J) t0 X. t8 @% dtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.5.39.217.77:88980 U0 ?# L" [7 w/ k3 i" X
“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.
( V$ \- I4 j, R& z+ ?4 STVBNOW 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 was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.5.39.217.77:88982 W4 f4 p+ S. J. W/ {$ n2 s7 X
“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.5.39.217.77:8898* y4 p9 h2 L* N! P6 a1 \, N( F
“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.
& B, y# }% R8 U0 ntvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”5.39.217.77:8898! P; F! b" [! y+ M' u% l" d: z: `
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
# i# \" p8 N8 S* GTeam-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. |