Nick Halstead
| Nick Halstead | |
|---|---|
Halstead at Thruxton Circuit in 2024 | |
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 9 April 1972 Kent, United Kingdom |
| British Touring Car Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2021 |
| Current team | Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing |
| Racing licence | FIA Bronze |
| Car number | 50 |
| Former teams | Team Bristol Street Motors |
| Starts | 84 (85 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 Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing. 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.
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.