27.04.08 TURVEY KEEPS COOL AT CROFT Sunday, 27 April 2008, RSF driver Oliver Turvey could easily have left North Yorkshire's Croft circuit a troubled man after a nightmare start threatened to undermine his round 3 and 4 British F3 plans. Instead - having practised damage limitation to perfection - the engineering undergraduate was driven back to Cambridge University in a much relieved frame of mind with another 15 points in the bag and equal third place in the driver standings. With eight hours of university finals crammed into Thursday to enable him to take part in Friday practice, it was always going to be a tough weekend. But the 21 years-old student never figured on compounding the pressure by stalling on the grid at the start of round 3 of the championship. The error left him bringing up the rear but determined not to panic. "I was trying to avoid wheelspin and get away cleanly like I did at Oulton Park," the round 1 winner said. "But I stalled and I didn't. "I knew instinctively not to panic and drove as fast as I could, overtaking when I could without taking any unnecessary risks. "The over-riding aim was to get back into the top 10 and score points. And it paid off." By the end of the first lap he was 19th and setting about the rest of the field, taking 10 places over the remaining 21 laps to finish eight, one place behind his starting position. In the round that followed Turvey - who had qualified fourth - kept his head again following a six-car pile up on the first lap that led to the race being red flagged. At the restart Turvey lost a place to team mate Alguersuari but immediately regained position at turn 2 to set off in pursuit of third place man Atte Mustonen. As the race wore on Mustonen came under sustained attack from Turvey who got by the Finn with four laps to go with a clinical move up the inside at Tower. "I could see he was starting to struggle so I started to put more and more pressure on him," said Turvey. "Then with four or five laps to go I got close enough to him on the back straight to get a good tow and outbraked him into Tow << back to news