30.10.09 TURVEY PLAYS CATCHUP ON GP2 DEBUT A resigned Oliver Turvey finished 18th in free practice and qualifying at the stunning new Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi today on his GP2 Asia debut. The RSF driver - on the back foot after missing last week's two-day test at the circuit - had been targeting a time that would have placed him four or five rows further up the grid for tomorrow's pitstop race. "Obviously I'm disappointed," he said. "The car was good, I was happy with it, it was just a lack of laps," he said. "Practically all the other drivers had done a hundred laps or so in testing last week whereas I'd done only about six timed laps in free practice. So I was always going to be at a bit of a disadvantage. "The track changed a lot as well, so I think I did the maximum I could with what I had. But obviously everyone was two days ahead of us. "All the same, at this level you have to be competitive from the moment you arrive. So we'll have to do a lot better in the race tomorrow, which I'm reasonably confident we can." Turvey, along with fellow GP2 rookie Charles Pic, missed the test session due to a clash of dates between the final round of the Formula Renault 3.5 Championship in Spain. << back to news