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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.
0 u: ?' q- k* Y: J7 _+ y1 L HWickens 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.
$ u# H9 ?7 W/ u* T! n& sThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.os.tvboxnow.com- ~+ U6 r! r9 d6 b( L9 m- V! 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.os.tvboxnow.com& i6 { c8 Y" O5 e
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
7 e+ V) L7 i" r" A“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.os.tvboxnow.com* r7 H$ U; |1 X. ~7 w& ~2 e
“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.os.tvboxnow.com* `+ o# |: S2 }1 T, O
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”公仔箱論壇. A! R( c' R3 X; E; \) ^
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
) x% Q' v6 N0 Q- w% H0 ~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. |
發表於 2013-9-15 02:44 PM
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