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/ O6 K/ E" I$ e# H. S5 YMercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.
- |% C; ^" n9 y2 a/ w' \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。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.
# p5 T0 K* U' G/ k: \# RThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
4 n, ?9 {7 k) ^( atvb 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.公仔箱論壇! O3 Q7 |# |* |0 N$ S; ]/ @
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
" _1 W8 i' S8 ?) M“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.% _7 `/ B- g" @1 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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb4 ~+ }- `# `4 i, r5 \3 e/ o
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
; H" `7 }7 a* ]2 [# U% l0 Z8 i公仔箱論壇Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.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。- \5 q |: ^) |/ K$ c
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. |