[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.
7 X0 w: m% [; F/ R6 n; B3 c5.39.217.76Wickens 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.
% S# \# Y$ V+ Itvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
+ @- ]4 B1 j, [$ T* xtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“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.9 u7 g2 V) L# {& f8 U
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.5.39.217.76' A: J0 ]" p$ l. B/ R/ W
“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.
) w! ~. ?- \8 S, q* Y  S“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.
+ G4 C0 O* p$ n, B公仔箱論壇“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”公仔箱論壇5 B9 y8 ]1 s) ^5 ]5 X7 m3 L. d
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
9 O6 \. |) f0 `# F  x9 j9 ttvb now,tvbnow,bttvbTeam-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.