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The fact that we saw all three compounds on the starting grid highlights how bringing the C4 tyre to Melbourne this year was the correct choice, as it was judged to be a valid race tyre as well as becoming the protagonist of the final run to the flag.
Today's result, not scoring points, does not reflect the progress we have made as a team.
There was just about everything you could imagine this afternoon so to come away with third and fourth places - and 27 points - is a brilliant reward for the team.
An eventful race today. We managed to stay out of trouble and were able to score our first points of the season.
While it's disappointing to leave here with zero points, we can be satisfied and positive with the performance of our car today.
We have made a step forward this weekend, both on one-lap and race pace. We maximised what we have, and we need to now comb through the data and continue to learn about the car.
It was a very difficult race for us. Both drivers pushed hard to extract all they could from the package, but we couldn't manage to get the cars moving forward as required.
We leave Melbourne frustrated that we couldn't take advantage of our good pace and turn it into points.
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