Listen to this article Off the back of consecutive Q3 appearances for the team in Bahrain and Jeddah, Magnussen failed to make it out of Q1 in Melbourne and lines up 17th, while Mick Schumacher will start 15th. But rather than the performance being a concern that the team has lost its early-season potential, Magnussen says the result can be traced back to the team not getting on top of its set-up from the off in practice. “I think we just didn’t really nail the start set-up for this track,” he explained. “It was a bit different to what we expected. “We expected it to be kind of similar to the old track, but it’s actually fairly different, and I just think we missed the starting set-up, and then had a pretty long way to go to get to a good spot with the car. “I think we got close to it in qualifying, but then qualifying was just a mess with red flags and all that. So it just hit us in a bad spot and then I was out in …