12.08.10 TUVEY ON THE PODIUM IN MONZA Oliver Turvey finished third in the GP2 feature race at Monza to claim his third podium in the series. Turvey made a good start from fourth on the grid to hold his position on the opening laps. However behind Turvey and the other front runners there was chaos, which eliminated 10 cars, bringing out the safety car twice in the opening five laps. At the restart after the first safety car, Turvey made an opportunistic move on D'Ambrosio into the first chicane which allowed him to overtake and move ahead of Bianchi into second position. After the second safety car, the race settled into a steady rhythm with Bird, Turvey and Bianchi circulating at the head of the field in the run up to the pit stop window. The team's strategy decision allowed Bianchi to jump Turvey in the pit stop so he emerged from his stop in sixth moving up into third behind Bird and Bianchi as the legitimate race order worked itself out. Turvey drove a solid race after the pit stop, lapping consistently but did not have the pace of the two ART cars ahead who were up to one second a lap quicker. After making no mistakes, Turvey crossed the finish line to take third position and another podium. "I'm pretty pleased to be on the podium but would have liked to have been on the top step," said Turvey. "Unfortunately we didn't have the race pace to challenge the two ART cars ahead so I feel 3rd was the maximum we could do today. It's more good points again and it gets us a good grid position for tomorrow's sprint race as well. I will work hard with the team tonight so hopefully we can make some improvements for tomorrow, as I'm confident we can get another podium." << back to news