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( n" U$ |, d3 wMercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.
6 p' L8 m' q/ p- a$ O( L6 ?& D2 `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 i5 i# E3 X6 y4 DThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
) ^0 N4 [8 l: l$ S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.
7 C& Z' G# x8 x6 `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。“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.公仔箱論壇5 k5 S# F) {& K3 Q
“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.
' @! L1 p+ w: A/ j# L$ atvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“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.8 T+ l b& u" @; ~% Q. K: Y, s: H0 m
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
; F5 |$ l# o+ v0 itvb now,tvbnow,bttvbDespite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
4 s' |: |, [: wTeam-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. |