Turn all the lights on, the final round of the 2013 New Zealand Jet Sprint Championships is back in town.
The fortunes are in sharp contrast from the last time the jetboats were here, for Round One on December 27, when much of the talk centred on whether world champion Leighton Minnell could match last season's clean sweep of the Superboat Championship rounds.
Instead, after coming from behind on that first afternoon at Shelter View, it is another former world champion in Peter Caughey who made virtually every post a winner for the next four months, bringing an all but unassailable series lead back to Wanganui.
Meanwhile, with the exception of a good round at Featherston, Minnell has known the frustration of snapped drive shafts, cracked gudgeon pins and beachings the latter incident at Wanaka seeing his chances of retaining the title disappear.
It could make things even more exciting tomorrow, however, as Caughey said his fellow competitors will either be extra cautious at night or throw caution to the wind and go flat out.
All out was the style Pat Dillon employed last time at Shelter View, and sitting in second for the championship, he is looking to retire from the sport on a high note. A win with his Supercharged Ford would do nicely.
Another who could stand up is Ray Ferguson, who won on the new track at Wanaka and is hungry to go back to back.
Coming off his first-ever round victory in Wanaka and denying Sam Newdick a clean sweep in the Group A championship, Wanganui's Richard Murray is aiming for his best finish in the series.
However, while he is now clear of the scrap for third between Bevan Muir, Paul Gaston and Baden Gray, Murray does not see the still red-hot Newdick making the same mistakes he did last time out.
"I've still got a chance but he's got to have a really bad day in Wanganui," he said.
It could depend if Newdick races conservatively to avoid accident and tally up some points, or goes for yet another win.
Another choice for Murray is his navigator; either going back to regular Kesty Manning, who sat out the last round with injury, or sticking with brother-in-law Ian Carter after the success of Wanaka.
Unlike his fellow Wanganui drivers, Gerry Linklater is very much sitting in the driver's seat for his first championship after four years in the sport.
Well clear on the 400 series, Linklater said it will "definitely be on our minds" whether to go for the delight of a win on the home course, or play it cool to rack up the series points to stay clear of Thompson and Thompson.
Brett Thompson saw his championship chances disappear with two bad results in the middle of the season but is determined to go out with a win, while father Ray sits in third place.
The gates at Shelter View open at 4pm. You can arrive early for the beginning of racing at 2pm. Adults are $20, children aged 5-12 $5, with under-5s free. Early bird tickets are available from www.v8jetsprints.co.nz at $15.