Mark Winterbottom will hit two decades as a full-time Supercars driver after signing a two-year extension at Team 18.
But in all his years of racing, the motorsport byword known as Frosty can't have had many tougher or more controversial days than Sunday, with heated fallout ensuing from a high-speed incident with rival Will Brown.
After a lap of tough-as-nails racing with Brown at Pukekohe Park on Sunday, Winterbottom squeezed him off the track and sent him flying into the wall.