The Mercedes driver managed to shuffle up to sixth late on in the race following a spate of critical energy levels behind the top five drivers, having been down in 12th just two laps prior to the end.
As a result of his late leap into the top 10, de Vries lessened the damage to points leader Edoardo Mortara in the championship standings – with just five points separating the two.
Although de Vries proved to be opportunistic to get past the cars low on energy, as Mercedes had also tried to energy save earlier on in the race, he admitted to struggling with his car throughout and even missed an attack mode activation which cost further time.
“[I have] mixed feelings, really, it was not very enjoyable racing the car,” explained de Vries.
“Very tough, because the top five was committed to the long game – and we wanted to play the same game with them.
“But obviously behind us, they were quite racy. And then you get into this fight, which made it very tough to play that game.
“I missed…
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