"We didn't complete many laps today as we suffered with PU issues. We need to learn as much as possible about this car and we need more laps to be able to do this.

"We have a big challenge to improve our reliability and performance, but everyone is working flat-out to improve our situation."

"It's been a tough weekend so far with a few issues that have kept us from getting the laps we needed. The team in the garage have been working really hard, but there just wasn't enough time to get the car rebuilt before Qualifying.

"We're not where we want to be at the moment, but we'll keep pushing and keep working to improve."

"We ran trouble free in FP3 and seemed to unlock a lot of lap-time in Qualifying by just running more laps.

"There is potential in the car, so it’s clear we need more mileage. We are short on batteries and so can’t risk too much tomorrow, but hopefully we can do as many laps as possible.

"We face this challenge together and everybody in the team and in Honda have been working flat-out to improve this situation."

"Another very busy day in Melbourne as we continue to make progress with the AMR26 working with our technical partner, Honda.

"Fernando was able to run important laps in final practice, giving us valuable data and information heading into Qualifying. Fernando qualified in P17 – just missing out on Q2 – and it is clear there is lots of hard work ahead of us.

"Lance was unlucky today with an ICE issue keeping his car in the garage during practice. After those issues were resolved, there was not enough time to rebuild the car and take part in Qualifying.

"It is clear the AMR26 has the pace to compete, so we will discuss with the FIA tonight our options for running Lance tomorrow.”

"It was good to get some kilometres in the car today, especially after missing pretty much all the track running this weekend.

"We used the race as a learning session and stopped for several laps to check things over in the garage before heading back out.

"There's still quite a bit missing in terms of performance and reliability, but the laps we managed today should give us a bit more direction going into China."

"The first two laps were the most enjoyable part of the race for me. We had a good start and ended up P10 which was unexpected. We were then out of position and so we fell back.

"We then brought the car into the garage to check things over and went back out before we had to retire the car. China next weekend will be another good opportunity to get mileage and optimise things."

"Today was primarily an opportunity to learn more about the AMR26.

"Both cars took the start and, when it became clear we could not compete for points, we chose to pit and check the cars over.

"The team then asked Fernando to retire the car to preserve components. The data and learnings from this weekend will help us as we go into the next event."