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3 j+ |! a! h t5 o( U( w; l* O9 nwww3.tvboxnow.comMercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.
9 i/ v7 c3 k0 M" @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.7 U! n: e- J% a2 g1 H/ X
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
" @; b3 N1 t- g# W' J+ f: _ T; Ltvb 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.
# c+ P3 F+ p- a4 u6 R, P+ q" C# F“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.www3.tvboxnow.com2 S& j! \; K& O* t" k6 [
“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.8 Y" ^# w4 P: d- A
“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.
, ?9 B7 Q: ^8 ^& o“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
7 B7 u; F5 K' ?5 qTVBNOW 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。Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb0 X* k$ ~3 W9 ^
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. |