Force India boss Vijay Mallya has been encouraged by his team's performance in the season-opening Bahrain GP and believes that his drivers could easily claim some podium finishes this season.
Vitantonio Liuzzi claimed two points at Sakhir by coming home ninth, but Adrian Sutil left empty-handed after finishing 12th.
However, Mallya was pleased with both men's pace and is now looking forward excitedly to the rest of the campaign.
"The way we are today I think we're very competitive, and everything is going to plan," he said.
"In 2009 I said we should score some points occasionally, and we scored 13, which was respectable.
"This year I said we should score points regularly. We have opened our account in the first race and I think the opportunity is wide open for us to now score points regularly. I wouldn't be surprised if we could target the odd podium or two.
"And next year we should hopefully strongly target podium finishes."
The race in Bahrain was widely slated for being mind-numbingly uneventful, something many people attributed to this season's new regulations, which include a ban on in-race refuelling.
However, Mallya believes that it is too early to come to any conclusions.
"It's hard to tell from one race and everybody was faced with a guessing game. We didn't know how long the tyres would last in the race, and there was no data to really base any proper judgement on. We need to give the regulations a chance to prove themselves and for people to learn how to use them," he reasoned.
"To change everything after just one race is a knee-jerk reaction; let's see how it goes in Australia and Malaysia and make an informed decision about whether we do need to react to improve the Formula 1 show. If we do then at least we have more information to make a proper call."