Australia Sunday quotes: Williams

"I have taken the best out of our car today and I was particularly happy that overtaking Ralf (Schumacher) was successful - I was taking a chance of course, but you've got to try it and it was good for the team.

"The new regulation requiring us to use both tyre types mixed it up a bit and although I did suffer some graining late in the race, it didn't matter because I didn't have anyone close in front or behind me. At the next test in Malaysia we have to improve to keep progressing."

Alex Wurz - DNF: "After his second stop, I was aware that David (Coulthard) was close behind me on the track. Suddenly I felt an impact and the next thing I knew, I was his landing pad as the impact had sent him airborne over my car. It looked pretty spectacular, but I'm fine.

"It's a shame my race ended the way it did, as soon as we got back to the paddock David came to apologise to me and he was a gentleman about the incident. Unfortunately though this doesn't help AT&T Williams nor me, but that's just how it goes sometimes.

"Nico proved today that our race pace is good - I wasn't able to show our speed so much, just because of the constant traffic I was among, but let's look forward to a better race in Malaysia."

Sam Michael, Technical Director: "We had a much better race than our qualifying performance yesterday, which is something we will look at for upcoming Grands Prix. Nico had a great race, did everything right and although he didn't have many laps with a clear track, the ones he did he used properly.

"It's a shame that Alex was taken out by Coulthard, but he is okay. It's great to get our relationship with Toyota off to a good start by scoring points in the first race."