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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.* R; S5 Y& l9 |9 T& z! V& y& U' W
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,bttvb3 T D% C+ O6 N0 B* V3 ]+ f% E
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
7 ?. E5 O2 \7 j9 q x# Z( [8 {“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.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。0 f' \* a$ w( t8 {
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.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 n2 U5 D' Z* q
“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.' Y% ~# ?8 F* l/ J$ w/ G7 z" |
“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.
. o3 e, M, n( X3 j) R, G! T! z“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”公仔箱論壇2 m. R" m) i( }
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
7 ^9 f5 d) n% G* s" {os.tvboxnow.comTeam-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. |