Sergio Perez finishes 2nd in Australian Grand Prix

It was a good result but, unfortunately, we lost Max and it would have been great to have a double podium for the Team. On the other hand, it is a good result after so many unlucky moments in the first couple of races for me. It was a very complicated race with the start I had and the safety cars but we managed to overcome it. My first start was very poor, we struggled a lot with degradation on the medium tyre, we were a bit unlucky with the safety car and we lost two positions which we recovered later. We got a few things wrong across the weekend and we were battling more with Mercedes than Ferrari so the pace wasn't where we want it to be, but we will work on it. There is some good analysis to be done from this weekend because yesterday we were close for pole but in the race we were a bit too far off the pace. The fastest guys out there are Ferrari, we want to be up there fighting with them and today that wasn't the case. If we can improve the car a little, then we can be more confident

I'll take those two points today! It's been quite an unfortunate race for me, I managed to pass two cars at the start, but then I got unlucky pitting right before the safety car and dropped to P14. I was pretty mad at the time, but I stayed focussed and managed to come back through to P9. I had a nice battle with Lance which I enjoyed, it was pretty intense on a track like this, but in the end I got the best of him. Objectively, it's been a tough weekend for us, so I think we can be quite happy with the result and to leave with two points. I still feel like we've got a few things to improve on, we've got some new parts coming in the next few races, so we've got to keep up with the others if we want to keep fighting for these positions. We would like to be a bit further up in the order, so we'll keep pushing

There wasn't any pace today. We struggled for the whole race, so we need to work out why to avoid something like this happening again. It was very difficult to keep up with other cars and stay in their DRS, we just lacked performance overall and I didn't expect it to be that bad. It is what it is, we have to stay positive and work on improving for the next race

It's of course very disappointing to not finish today's race, I don't really know what happened to the car yet, we'll take it back to the factory and regroup. I already knew there was a possibility ahead of the race that we might not finish but I tried not to think about it. This is not what you need when you want to fight for the Championship, the gap is already pretty big. Of course, Checo did well to come second, he scored some good points. Overall it doesn't look like there is an easy fix so we need to work hard as a Team, there are a lot of things to work on. We'll wake up tomorrow and focus on the upcoming races and do the best that we can. It is of course a long season and a lot can happen; I think at this stage we need 45 races! [laughs]