[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.
3 w- ?& p6 r- P% E$ s, l5.39.217.76Wickens 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.: }2 X9 l* c, B, Q
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
( c; e+ o, l/ b: Q/ _; z8 Gtvb 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.
3 N! a0 v3 B, D0 `tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb& w0 g& x. Y, g6 y# {4 Q% X% s
“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.' A+ R' q- u8 S2 L" a) 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.! |* z0 N( X* w. }5 e( p
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
5 a# W. d# K. RDespite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.5.39.217.76) y9 S! ?( E: r# v9 j
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.