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4 R: D+ e; U& B7 Z- wMercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.
2 T: _! O* D8 B& t& M5 bWickens 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.公仔箱論壇/ T' f. N7 t# p& ?
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
9 V$ F$ L) z; A- A9 R6 A M: ]tvb 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.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。% n4 L. b# Z: D/ ~! X! V
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
7 l# G% S0 K. ~/ D6 Twww2.tvboxnow.com“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.
4 c3 O3 j# s* y" P$ F; A8 {& U# hwww2.tvboxnow.com“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8 Y$ n2 e) r1 V) G7 ]
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
2 g3 @' E* L, p公仔箱論壇Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
@; r( g7 d/ @2 e' R' l' X" [公仔箱論壇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. |