His focus this weekend will be on the Toyota 86 racing at Pukekohe, but former Te Puke High School student Michael Scott could be forgiven for having one eye on the future.
By winning the 2015-16 New Zealand Formula Ford series, the 21-year-old mechanical engineering student secured a place on the grid of a one-race shootout in the US. The winner will secure a spot in the 2017 USF2000 series - a prize estimated to be worth about US$200,000 ($270,000). That race takes place at California's Laguna Seca Raceway next month.
As well as the single-seat Formula Ford championship, Scott last year finished second in his first season in the Toyota 86 one-make sports car series.
After a frenetic 2015-16 motor racing season, when he did double duty at several meetings, he will just race in the six-round Toyota 86 series in 2016-17.
"Last year we were very lucky. Even though we had committed to do the Formula Fords, we won a scholarship with the (Toyota 86) CareVet team to run with them, so we ran both the 86 and the Formula Ford," said Scott.