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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.9 M- s6 ]# G1 ~" Y$ \: q
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,bttvb7 |5 {! [& ?9 Q o
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
+ Z3 q3 S: A" P, \- C9 Q4 l* |$ F公仔箱論壇“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.
8 L) o5 [7 s8 @7 r* T S9 I“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
. T8 h/ _3 R2 @( V“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.公仔箱論壇+ u: @* a( ~7 Y! i
“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.
. E5 J- w0 g9 N" N& Q! V9 CTVBNOW 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。“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
' P* }& u0 Y I0 `/ x1 w" @$ A公仔箱論壇Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
6 g8 _1 @4 G [" D8 y+ g5.39.217.76Team-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. |