Kimi Raikkonen may have cruised to victory in last weekend’s Australian Grand Prix but the ‘Iceman’ may not have it quite as easy in the Malaysian heat with the second race of the year likely to throw up a completely different set of results, especially if it rains.

Raikkonen’s win was built on a solid start and the perfect use of a two-stop strategy as Lotus was able to run two stints of over twenty laps on the medium tyres on an unusually cold track even as rivals struggled with graining and degradation and had to stop thrice.

Malaysia, on the other hand, is one of the hottest races on the calendar and its layout, featuring several high speed corners that ask a lot of the tyres, will be a step into the unknown for teams who have so far run in cool conditions over winter testing and the Australian GP.

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