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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., r9 O2 e$ S/ b8 h5 N9 n) P
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.
! `, }6 _& G4 GThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
4 X9 l5 A/ D; B5 L. PTVBNOW 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。“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.
+ N: y+ J9 y7 g- e: Htvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.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。$ G. a0 Y8 _: @2 K
“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" \- F+ M" S/ x1 q& v- G( k
“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.
! R) G/ u1 d2 { l+ [“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb' H9 m% u" W* C
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
& U/ ?5 C# }' W+ L; YTeam-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. |