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* J) r+ B+ c! Mtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbMercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.www3.tvboxnow.com: u4 Z& r g8 q/ {. K4 h
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.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。9 N9 C8 i% C6 t; w' n! ?: [
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
& L6 M5 i) g3 |/ n“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4 m2 G5 |( Y7 S9 c0 \/ G
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
& V6 p+ ^3 h% P5 n) N公仔箱論壇“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.
0 @' K& q* l6 F5 n# ]8 W“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.: P+ N- Y2 l8 \4 b% N: y" i# {. \
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb; a' r+ \) W7 w+ A) T
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.
6 \; g) N% G# ^+ {" r1 K/ k" O' r2 @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. |
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