Nick Halstead

Nick Halstead
Halstead at Thruxton Circuit in 2024.
NationalityUnited Kingdom British
Born (1972-04-09) 9 April 1972 (age 52)
Kent, United Kingdom
British Touring Car Championship career
Debut season2021
Current teamTeam Bristol Street Motors
Car number22
Starts61 (61 entries)
Wins0
Poles0
Best finish22nd in 2024
Previous series
2023
2022, 2021
2022, 2021, 2020
2019, 2018, 2017
2019
2019
2019
Asian Le Mans Series
British GT
Ginetta GT4 Supercup
Ginetta GT5 Challenge
TCR UK
Renault Clio Cup UK
Dunlop Touring Car Trophy
Championship titles
2018Ginetta GT5 Challenge AM

Nicholas John Halstead (born 9 April 1972 in Kent) is a British racing driver, software engineer and entrepreneur currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Team Bristol Street Motors.[1] Halstead has previously competed in British GT and the Ginetta GT4 Supercup. He won the AM title in the 2018 Ginetta GT5 Challenge, and made his British Touring Car Championship debut at Croft in 2021, substituting for Rick Parfitt Jr. at Excelr8 with TradePriceCars.com.[2]

Halstead is the founder of companies such as Infosum, Datasift and TweetMeme, the latter of which was the first site containing the retweet feature, before it was sold to Twitter in 2010.[3]

  1. ^ "Nick Halstead joins EXCELR8 for 2023 campaign". TouringCarTimes. 4 November 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  2. ^ "NICK HALSTEAD TO SUBSTITUTE FOR RICK PARFITT AT CROFT". BTCC. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  3. ^ "About Nick Halstead". Nick Halstead. Retrieved 2 November 2021.