Our aim is to have between two and three stops at every race, so it's clear that four is too many: in fact, it's only happened once before, in Turkey during our first year in the sport.

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"Our plan was to do two stops and though it's always difficult in the first races to know when to stop and not go too early, we got it exactly right, " Raikkonen said.

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Any drivers who still think it's too tough to pass in the new car must not have been watching Busch, who made two lengthy charges up to early leads, doing it both before and after a pit-row speeding penalty dropped him back to 18th.

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