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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.* F- z2 ^: q" T: K& s
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.+ h& O5 [* Z6 M# B7 e! r
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb! c+ b3 M* f* v1 @$ i8 C
“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.
, y7 v/ U/ Z. u Btvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
0 b5 }- m) z" q: g9 [! M( T5.39.217.76“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.
, E% S8 @" p N" {' j/ {tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“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.
3 d1 A5 A9 ]6 u7 d/ V4 L公仔箱論壇“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
. }0 |, D; _3 e6 X1 Z& K3 Z+ b5.39.217.76Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
; u, N2 c0 h5 Y3 { b) |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。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. |