[賽車] Robert Wickens rues missed pole position ， 描述： DTM

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/ f& J: ]1 i7 y* p. H1 UMercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.
, s7 u. ?8 Z4 J! _0 p1 m; y5 w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.
- ^# g5 r' ?. gos.tvboxnow.comThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.* t1 ^' L& o/ Z
“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.
9 M3 w9 {, R. R& r- M$ A! s$ }公仔箱論壇“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
! N7 f) y: a) c0 f7 ?; W/ S0 U5 ?) Ntvb 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.
2 x# ?3 Y, r/ a$ p, O9 N5 s2 W* O公仔箱論壇“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.
1 J% ]: S& G7 r0 n! e. j& Ftvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”公仔箱論壇" I% P9 h9 F* ?# i3 J
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.os.tvboxnow.com: D& e* S: ~8 b% b3 Y& b+ ?
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.