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Following his crash in FP1, Alex Albon will drive Logan Sargeant's car for the remainder of the Australian Grand Prix weekend.

We expected the graining that was quite noticeable today on the Medium and Soft, as well as the significant track evolution from one session to the next.

We focused on fulfilling our program and on set-up work where we have taken a small step forward: but there is definitely more to unlock tonight.

Both drivers were pretty happy with the car straight away and had no issues at all.

We know the situation we are in and we know it will be challenging so we will keep working hard to improve what we have in our hands.

All-in-all, not a bad day. We were a bit up-and-down but there were definitely some positive signs.

Today was a little bit messy.

At low fuel, the car is working well, and we know where we can find more time, but we didn't learn much at high fuel today.

Overall, it's clear that we've got work to do overnight to improve the car.

The most important thing for us to do tomorrow will be to go with the track and anticipate what the evolution will be like.

On the long run, as we expected, graining is the biggest issue so we need to look at the data and see how we can improve for Sunday.

Charles Leclerc tops the timesheets in second session in Melbourne, as Lewis Hamilton struggles and doubts remain over whether Alex Albon's Williams can be repaired.

Times from today's second free practice session for the Rolex Australian Grand Prix.

Tricky conditions cause problems for most drivers, but only Albon comes to grief in opening session which sees the Top 10 covered by just 0.354s.

Daniel Ricciardo insists that he doesn't need to listen to comments from Helmut Marko in order to know that he needs to raise his game.