I'm still not happy with the qualifying system... we may as well draw numbers out of a hat to set the grid but V8 supercars reckon its ace, although I'm interested to see what the punters and fans think about it.

New Zealand was a tiring weekend but I'm feeling on top of the moon.

You get that feeling with a perfect start to the championship, and winning four races from four starts is a very big deal for all of us at TeamVodafone.

Considering all the question marks before the season, with the new FG and things, we're going well. We're just going out there and doing our thing and it's working well.

Heading to Hamilton I was pretty relaxed because there was no expectation. We weren't exactly the underdogs, but after the crash last year just making the race was going to be a better outcome.

I went into it with an open mind but we were 21st on Friday in practice and that was tough. I thought we were in big trouble, but I'm proud of the team because we turned it around that night and from then onwards the car was a rocket.

It was just a different mentality. We changed the set-up, but we were too anxious and trying to over-engineer things.

So we just relaxed and went back to square one and did our thing and that got us back on track.

That is the benefit I've got this year. We've already got the championship monkey off our back.

We don't panic and we're really confident in our own abilities. We believe it will turn out and that's a good thing.

If I hadn't won the championship last year and not been so confident in our gear then Friday would have been a different scenario and Saturday would have been a different outcome. We would have had a panic, tried to re-invent the wheel, and completely changed the car.

The actual racing went well, obviously, once we were back on top of things.

A few people have asked me about my pass on Mark Winterbottom in the first race, but he had cold tyres and I jumped on him. He was slipping and sliding a bit so I thought it was the time to pounce.

You're not really supposed to pass there, but there was a gap and I took it. I'm not one to take it easy.

I do have the big odd shunt every now and then but it's part of the fun.

Poor Lowndnesy, his rocket weekend was the non-championship one at the AGP. He's had good pace but it's tough out there and it's really hard to keep it calm. He's just had bad luck here, there and everywhere.

He's 15th the championship so he's back in the rookie session at Winton . . . But he will bounce back, for sure.

Looking at the rest of the pack after the weekend, the opposition are quick. Davo had awesome speed on the weekend, but he kept giving me lifelines. He had a few little team issues with HRT and things.

We've had a quick car and a good package, but the opposition has made us look good. My job is to keep up the intensity, and not let them back in.

They just haven't got it all together. When they do, we will struggle to beat them, but winning a championship is all about consistency.

I'm just rapt we've been consistent.

I'm still not happy with the qualifying system this year and, if I put my driver cap on, I think Sunday was a disgrace. We just had an absolute lottery. No car got an opportunity to do their best lap.

We may as well draw numbers out of a hat to set the grid. V8 supercars reckon it was ace, but I'm interested to see what the punters and fans think about it.

How about the HRT fans, with the cars so far back they couldn't show their pace? If the fans didn't like it then we need to address it, but if they did then we need to keep it.

We certainly didn't see the quickest cars on the front row of the grid. As far as I'm concerned you want the best team and car to win.

We were happy to win, but lucky to qualify on the second row. We got out of jail.

I don't like to see that. Davo was on a quick lap and got no reward.

It's those days you wish you were a sprinter and there weren't so many variables.

It's been hectic as usual since Hamilton and I didn't get into Melbourne until Monday night. Then it was a day testing, helping Bryce Washington with his car at Winton, before a couple of days of debriefing at Triple Eight headquarters in Brisbane.

I have three days off from Friday, but then we're straight back into it for Winton.