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Jean-Eric Vergne: Happy to be back on track The 22 drivers have their say on the first running of the 2013 season at Albert Park in Melbourne.

Toro Rosso Daniel Ricciardo: “In P1 it was soon clear that in terms of balance and set-up we were not where we wanted to be so we made some changes and they helped.

I definitely feel we made progress from morning to afternoon, but not enough, so there is more to do overnight to find more pace.

It’s nice to be racing at home in Australia again, which is an added incentive to work really hard to get the car to go quicker and give the fans something to cheer about on Sunday.” Jean-Eric Vergne: “It’s really nice to be back on track for the first Grand Prix, the first day of practice and I’m happy to be back in the car.

The most obvious change from winter testing has been the higher temperatures and this meant the tyres have worked much better today than they did in Spain.

We have quite a bit of work to do to get closer to those ahead and I feel we currently lack some speed.

However, our long runs looked pretty good and the balance of the car was okay.” More to follow …