Scott Dixon is having continued success in Indy Cars, Brendon Hartley and Earl Bamber are major forces in the FIA World Endurance Championship, Hayden Paddon has progressed into a full WRC season, and both Mitch Evans and Richie Stanaway are turning heads in the GP2 and GTE Pro WEC series.
Kiwi drivers are currently enjoying the most motorsport success at an international level since Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme and Chris Amon took it to the world in the 1960s.
If 2016 shapes up as well as last year did, there will be another name added to this new golden age of Kiwi motorsport: 21-year-old Nick Cassidy. Progressing up through junior series in New Zealand, Cassidy started turning heads locally when he secured a drive in the Toyota Racing Series (TRS), going on to win the championship three times and become the most successful driver in the series' history, as well as helping develop the new TRS car that made its debut on track this season.
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"I did three years in Toyota, but you can only win it a certain amount of times. Then I went to do Formula Renault in Europe, but it was never really a full championship," said Cassidy when we talked to him last year. "The first year I did three rounds, then just did some testing and stuff like that. It was a little bit all over the shop in terms of not really doing one thing properly. "In 2014 I did some races in the Formula 3 Euro Series, but all the time testing other things. The tests were always going really, really well, which kept me up there even though I wasn't doing any races." Then came the 2014 Macau Grand Prix where Cassidy put in an incredible performance to finish third in the prestigious F3 race. This, combined with his performance in the few European F3 races he did, got his phone ringing.
The fact that he also cleaned up in the 2015 Japanese F3 championship with highly-respected team TOM'S certainly helped with his next step: it was recently announced that Cassidy would not only be racing in the Japanese Super GT series driving a Lexus RC-F for TOM'S, but he would also be competing in the European F3 championship with the hugely successful Prema Powerteam.
Cassidy has had his most notable successes in single-seaters, but he's far from inexperienced in tin-tops, having raced in the local V8 Supertourers, the Australian V8 Supercars and the GT300 class in the Japanese Super GT series.
This time around he'll be with the big boys in Super GT – the GT500 class.GT500 race distances vary between 300km and 1000km over the course of the championship, and as well as having the challenge of navigating past the slower GT300 traffic, the four tyre manufacturers in the championship make matters even more complex and tactical with unlimited compound and constructions at their disposal.
As well as being one of international motorsport's biggest 'tyre championships', drivers also have to deal with the series' harsh performance ballast system - a driver pairing's added ballast in kilogrammes is equal to the amount of points they have in the championship.
"It's every young driver's dream to become a factory-supported racing driver, so I'm extremely proud to be joining the Lexus TOM'S team this year," says Cassidy.
"I know I have a steep learning curve ahead of me, but I am ready to do everything that is possible to learn from those around me. I'm fortunate to be sharing the car with Daiske Ito [former GT500 champion]; he's an extremely experienced driver in Super GT."
While competing in GT500 is challenging enough, there is also the small matter of the European F3 Championship.
While there has never actually been a World Championship for F3, it's still considered a major stepping stone on the way to F1, as well as other top-tier motorsport series.
The Prema Powerteam has won numerous European titles and has dominated the European F3 Championship since its re-introduction in 2012. As such, it enters the 2016 season as hot favourite.
With Cassidy's success in Japanese F3, as well as his impressive performances in Euro F3 as a guest driver, things are looking very good indeed for 2016.
"We couldn't be more satisfied for the arrival of Cassidy, a really experienced driver who has already showed some outstanding driving skills throughout his career, especially behind the wheel of F3 cars," says team manager Rene Rosin.
"When we had an open seat at the end of last season, I didn't have a single doubt about having him in our team. He did a really good job straight away and showed he had the attitude needed to be a part of Prema. That's why we decided to add him to our 2016 line-up."
With the Super GT season kicking off on the 9th of April and finishing on the 12th of November, and the Euro F3 season starting on the 1st or April and winding up on the 16th of October, Cassidy is going to be very busy indeed during the European summer.