After qualifying 14th following Sunday morning’s final qualifying session, the first under the new “aggregate” system, Tiago Monteiro gave a steady drive in the Albert Park race to bring their Jordan Toyota EJ15s home in 16th place.

TIAGO MONTEIRO (EJ15/03) 16th

“The goal was to finish the race and this is what we managed to achieve. We are not the only team apparently, as all the cars seemed pretty reliable. As I said during the weekend, we need to finish races and collect as much information as possible. There are so many things I have learnt today and that is the most important. For the next race, I would like to make some changes to my seat position and my seat belt. I had a great start but then I lost a lot of time when people were overtaking me so I have to work on that but otherwise I am very happy to have finished the race.”