標題: [賽車] Robert Wickens rues missed pole position [打印本頁] 作者: Geofredo 時間: 2013-9-15 02:44 PM 標題: Robert Wickens rues missed pole position
o/ p* y o# L4 y$ j/ c' Y0 I/ l" k+ Cwww3.tvboxnow.com 8 g% m% X( q7 Z8 `1 O& F7 Z: MMercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather. 9 B5 u% k3 k) r/ K7 {+ L公仔箱論壇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. 0 }5 J$ U8 q+ OThe Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position. 4 X* e, [- }) V4 ~. K( i. q8 I“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.5 s2 g: k4 M( ^1 _" D
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain. / d, r2 O |$ O" n' k J* Cwww3.tvboxnow.com“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. , O% }* {4 }9 r3 t+ S“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.www3.tvboxnow.com) z* L9 @' T8 J6 `- w
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”" x- O$ _' G7 N
Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11./ p- z% v, ?: e
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.
