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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.
: a0 ]+ t5 b- d0 A) V# l9 g# |$ Ctvb now,tvbnow,bttvbWickens 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.
4 w4 l" O1 B6 u1 ZThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.. w5 C# Y6 ]- b9 S: Q
“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.( Z# \, f: F: I* N+ f$ U/ Z
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
+ r, v( M7 ]: Y' c+ X& X! k5.39.217.76“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.
" g: p% C; ?1 E- z6 F2 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.公仔箱論壇+ d; O+ M; A6 x0 l
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
m9 E4 H8 [1 m# ~* r- ~: g5.39.217.76Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.5.39.217.766 T, p2 Z+ V. _, T1 c' e/ O/ d
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. |