Lewis Hamilton said he avoided taking too many risks during the mixed conditions in Friday practice for the Australian Grand Prix.
Hamilton's Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg crashed into the wall during the wet second session, while the reigning world champion set the fastest times in both the morning and afternoon. But Hamilton said he was not pushing particularly hard.
"It's just that it is such difficult conditions out there and there is not a lot of reasons to go out and risk it," he said. "It's very slippery, the track is very green and there are a lot of white lines painted black that are still very slippery, and for what? To go out and damage the car? I think it's going to be dry tomorrow, and even if it rains we know how to drive in the wet and it's better to take the risk in the actual race than take it in practice."
Hamilton said he still managed to get through a useful, if limited, runplan on Friday.
"Of course you learn a little bit, but there weren't many dry laps, so I think in P1 it was wet in sector one and the second sector dry and then it switched around so the last sector was dry, so in those sectors I got the small pieces to the puzzle and a small picture of how the car was feeling. Then we got through our processes and getting used to no radio communication, so, yeah, I feel quite relaxed."
Hamilton is hoping Saturday's action will be more exciting for fans watching at home.
"Of course it would have been better for the people watching out here and for the people tuning in at home [if it has been dry], it must have been the most boring! Definitely for someone that is having his breakfast and eating their food, their head must have been falling into their plate. It must have been super boring because no-one is going out because it's just too wet and slippery. These tyres in the wet, because it's cold and everything, they do not work very well and that's the reason you see us all flying around.
"I'm excited for tomorrow because it's an unknown and the new qualifying system is unknown. Hopefully, with the new qualifying system an unknown, for people tuning in it will be more exciting than today was."