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( a5 I5 U: q& h& z0 B: x3 Ctvb now,tvbnow,bttvbMercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.
- d o- @ u( h; ?& S }www3.tvboxnow.comWickens 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" N4 |2 U0 r5 {. c0 @1 I
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
8 r& g! L0 Z3 V3 ]; |公仔箱論壇“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.% m, ^) i( |2 ]+ s5 F# R8 @) P0 ?
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
$ n+ j/ p$ y" X; A, nwww3.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.3 |8 `1 a9 q; l: h/ a2 d8 ~
“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,bttvb5 w% _. g* s3 n
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
; }0 ]* q3 H/ E* k8 D4 W. a4 c6 T8 KDespite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11., H$ |' u; a7 n+ a
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. |