ESPN rounds up all the reaction from up and down the Melbourne paddock following Friday practice for the 2018 Australian Grand Prix.
Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton: "Coming to the first race, you really have no idea what it's going to be like. You don't how you're going to feel physically, you don't know how the tyres are going to react to the circuit. But we started on the right foot today, we got through everything we needed. It closed up a little bit in FP2 in terms of the gap between us all, but that's exciting.