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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.
* @& _1 X: p* u6 U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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb) [1 b! A! m7 g/ e$ |2 [
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
0 J" O" a" o3 o% V- @“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.
+ }2 z, c' M: p7 d公仔箱論壇“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
& e- M) e" |# X% X公仔箱論壇“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.
$ |/ x: U/ s! o9 J+ D3 U“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.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 {! e0 o/ E) B! v
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”% ~, w3 m1 C3 p" p" F0 a
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
4 l0 k# M( D$ Q' W1 r2 s( ]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. |
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