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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.9 H3 U; s ~, L8 H1 z
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.$ Z) [" s0 d! w: P
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
( `1 ]3 S4 }' T“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.
4 z* s- ?0 l0 A% {5 c; s& o/ i+ `. R公仔箱論壇“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.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。4 y: d1 O. k" |8 |
“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.1 w$ ]4 p' }* i2 |& J8 s
“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.
( ?' o" X6 ?4 nwww3.tvboxnow.com“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
/ t; h% }* _. ^4 n5 G' h" E公仔箱論壇Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
2 m3 J/ N: F, K& jTeam-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. |