Indianapolis 500 driver and multiple Midget Car and Sprint Car champion Bryan Clauson made it a winning finale to 2015 at Mt Maunganui's Baypark Speedway on Wednesday night.
Making his Baypark debut, Clauson led home Aucklander Michael Pickens in a slightly curfew-shortened international feature race to end 2015 the same way he started - driving to a Midget Car victory in New Zealand.
The Noblesville, Indiana racer had celebrated the New Year with a January 1 victory at Auckland's Western Springs and closed it some 130 races later with his Baypark success - making it 21 main event wins for the year.
And now the hard work really begins.
Clauson, 26, is ramping up his hectic schedule of Midget and Sprint Car racing in 2016 with his "Chase to 200" tour programme - a daunting programme of 200 events in 2016.