[賽車] Robert Wickens rues missed pole position ， 描述： DTM

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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.公仔箱論壇8 O3 [6 _) P8 C* X' N. d
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,bttvb5 V" ~# K, k: i
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
9 U3 t8 o  G5 Z8 M. Z3 Z+ etvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“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.公仔箱論壇+ U, O& _- x7 `2 \- Y
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.9 H+ {* d2 i4 r% a2 N
“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.
  c9 e6 V( t! f4 o0 V: Y$ M2 B. Btvb 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.
- I2 @" K- M" U/ Atvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
7 r( c9 h$ y, ]www1.tvboxnow.comDespite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
" [4 S7 G9 o; ~& O+ @. h* ~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.