Turvey started a lowly 22nd on the grid, but benefitted from a chaotic affair to move up the order and was eventually classified seventh – helped in part due to time penalties for both Lucas di Grassi and Nyck de Vries for avoidable contact.
Explaining that NIO 333 had focused on saving energy early on, Turvey added that the team had been able to make the most of the opportunities that came its way during the race, having taken attack mode “at the right time” to move forward.
“We had the strategy before the race to try and save as much energy at the beginning,” Turvey said.
“The opening laps were spent just saving as much as possible, and then we were hoping for a safety car.
“And it kind of came maybe a little bit too early, but obviously allowed us to close the gap up, and then we had extra energy for the kind of the rest of the race.
“I was able to use that energy then to overtake a number of cars, and I think we took the attack mode at the right time. I was able to get past…
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