[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.公仔箱論壇$ |5 g$ c" G/ ~0 ^
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.
! f( o; @% Q' o. i( Z2 aThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
& S+ s; S; U3 P$ p, {os.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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb7 ]7 S' X5 \5 L7 y
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.8 j# T+ s" t+ {9 k
“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! [& d: d: v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.
/ R$ N! F8 e: r6 C- n公仔箱論壇“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
2 H2 x7 p+ M/ ]6 P9 j+ D0 X公仔箱論壇Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.os.tvboxnow.com  i1 i* K: ~$ f$ k: s7 ?* L
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.