[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., h1 V1 }* V6 k3 N, n! |3 ]
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.
" f' q( C5 |$ w0 V) Jtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
" A5 a! W1 R' p+ F“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.
* t; ?$ t0 S3 G& _# Btvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
: T2 @* A# c" T4 p& R4 W: f“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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb" R# i5 U; y; T
“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2 ^& k6 g3 w2 n7 T9 p5 T
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb4 Q) L/ k+ b/ ~
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
& S$ s" e) N# x* iTeam-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.