[賽車] Robert Wickens rues missed pole position ， 描述： DTM

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9 Y7 n2 p& P  T4 Y7 A: U& Wwww2.tvboxnow.comMercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.www2.tvboxnow.com! U, y: g+ u2 ?7 J0 _  u
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 u3 y; K  D/ Y1 _6 ~! Z. ?
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb5 o% B' m! z$ G! G; `; j8 Q
“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.
, Z& |; I# h0 u# F' J$ E: Ctvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
- c% K: e% n% f+ g1 C/ t公仔箱論壇“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.( |% b9 u5 ^! ?; K$ ^, 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.
( t) H7 ^0 ]0 d9 [7 K“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
9 M# ^- K- j/ X) m1 O0 ^Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
4 P, h% g" X$ B% sTeam-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.