The Finn said that, after winning the season-opening race in Melbourne, he left the partying to his Lotus crew and flew straight to Kuala Lumpur for this week's Malaysian Grand Prix.

"I had a flight in the evening so we just had a quick meeting and I had to go to the hotel to pick up some stuff and go," said Raikkonen, who is nicknamed "Iceman" and is renowned for his love of the high life.

"For sure, they had some celebrations, but it's just one race - at the end of the year we can have a good celebration."

Raikkonen said Sunday's win had not changed his preparations for this week's race - and he denied that he was seen as the man to beat at the tropical Sepang circuit, near the Malaysian capital.

"There's no target [on my back]," he said. "We're not doing any different things this week from what we did previously.

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