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: Q c! ~* j, p, j7 Z" R5 g公仔箱論壇Mercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.2 J6 @/ y8 |' B6 E
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.9 G. s6 |2 g/ q7 a$ Z
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
0 F, |' }; p( G7 e5.39.217.76“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.
, Y( q. l( w0 j8 z3 }2 ~4 |“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.公仔箱論壇/ ]6 H d- P1 @ l( A; \
“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.
% e; b+ E: |# u- ?0 d" o公仔箱論壇“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% j+ R% ]7 n) B7 B ~* f) o
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”* b: X, e: {. n2 D; O, C, e4 a
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.9 N8 r$ L( [, \& s- @; w
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. |
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