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

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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.os.tvboxnow.com. r- G* R$ X  o. F
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.
1 Y% h* O/ g3 c1 H; |5 SThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
6 I) k; q9 S6 r2 h$ los.tvboxnow.com“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.
: k4 f, N7 C$ _" ]% S  U. w“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
/ b. ^, E: M6 b! H& Ios.tvboxnow.com“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.
+ B- v4 K; w; Y1 i7 U# N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.
$ A" p% n' T! J5 V2 R“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
' `: ]4 }4 D' g+ n5 L5 u# C! atvb now,tvbnow,bttvbDespite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
' x+ C  B  T/ w公仔箱論壇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.