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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.* @# Q+ j, w P7 T
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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb) L: N5 @% @* `! a8 S
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
) E) y1 m) A6 a9 s3 ?; j“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.www2.tvboxnow.com* O$ C8 c# ?3 r6 \, s: Z
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
- a; ?- x7 c% D* W2 z5 q. `0 W“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.
3 b- X# {2 ^ _- V4 T- n# i* c3 ATVBNOW 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。“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.
% w4 E6 {9 p- D8 Q6 J/ ]) @9 xwww2.tvboxnow.com“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
6 S0 {" e5 H7 JDespite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.公仔箱論壇, T6 c; c' e) x, X. M I& 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. |