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! X$ C1 I4 f. N0 x/ [Mercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.* l; m: {; }/ L+ H) j8 N+ R
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.
1 q# e# C: |6 ]: h) A/ A; atvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
/ ?0 A7 h6 f. X+ A“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。6 o6 K7 X% u, c: x
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain." U) C9 o( c3 V( E7 h, t8 w* D3 g5 W2 e
“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.公仔箱論壇- y% R' J: t# e& ^$ l( x
“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,bttvb) c% B! B1 U3 y2 m% Y: A
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”! b9 ^- v8 w0 `( C
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.www3.tvboxnow.com" g4 w# R* f# D6 L) L$ N
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. |