Australia Sunday quotes: Spyker

Christijan Albers - DNF: "I started the race in the spare car as I wasn't happy with the balance of my race car after Qualifying. I had a good start and put in some fast times in the first ten laps, but unfortunately I made a mistake and went off the road. It's a shame for the team but we can only improve on this performance in Malaysia."

Mike Gascoyne, chief technical officer: "Our target for the race was to get two cars to the finish and obviously we didn't make that. Christijan was pretty competitive during his opening stint but unfortunately he made a mistake that ended his race.

"Adrian too set some competitive lap times however made a couple of errors that earned him drivethrough penalties, which dropped him back into traffic and then the gap was too much to make up. Fortunately you only do your first race once and now he's got all his rookie mistakes out of the way. Now we look forward to Malaysia, where we'll be making some significant aero updates and hope we can be much more competitive."

Colin Kolles, team principal and managing director: "We can be quite positive about the weekend. Adrian and Christijan did a good job with the times they set in the race and showed that we are closer to the others in race trim than we are in Qualifying. We know we have to work on ultimate Qualifying pace, but we can improve in Malaysia."