Nick Halstead | |
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Nationality | British |
Born | Kent, United Kingdom | 9 April 1972
British Touring Car Championship career | |
Debut season | 2021 |
Current team | Team Bristol Street Motors |
Car number | 22 |
Starts | 61 (61 entries) |
Wins | 0 |
Poles | 0 |
Best finish | 22nd 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 | |
2018 | Ginetta 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]