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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.
: X* N0 N# |- z U; p& F% D5.39.217.76Wickens 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.5.39.217.767 K' a- U: T) C: \! r1 c8 q4 y5 e& p+ g
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.5.39.217.76$ a. c! l7 O" ]" v. M4 {$ h0 U
“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.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。6 J1 `+ k% W) X: {% N6 _& I5 c# g$ U
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
; M+ H4 ?3 P2 J6 [) g' R“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.5.39.217.76: q# r+ e1 |1 H* t% k) t% U$ h
“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.& X6 e& n1 |% U# k, ~
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb" C9 s4 ]' p- ?
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
' U1 q( N/ l n8 f9 C! MTeam-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. |