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13 Facts About Nick Halstead

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Nick Halstead has previously competed in British GT and the Ginetta GT4 Supercup.

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Nick Halstead 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.

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Nick 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.

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In January 2008, the first prototype of TweetMeme was released, a site founded by Nick Halstead which tracked trending topics on the social media giant Twitter.

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Nick Halstead announced DataSift in September 2010 at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, a social data platform that provides brands and enterprises with access to content from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and dozens of other social networks.

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Nick Halstead stepped down as CEO of the company in October 2015.

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In late 2015 Nick Halstead founded Cognitive Logic, a data collaboration company.

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In 2017 Nick Halstead would make his professional racing debut in the Ginetta GT5 Challenge with Fox Motorsport.

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Nick Halstead would continue with Fox Motorsport in the AM class in 2018, where with four in-class victories he would go on to win the AM title.

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Nick Halstead continued in the championship with Fox Motorsport in 2022 in the G55 Pro class alongside his British GT campaign.

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Nick Halstead made his British GT debut in 2021, racing a McLaren 570S in the GT4 Pro-AM class alongside teammate Jamie Stanley.

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Nick Halstead continued with Fox Motorsport in the series in 2022, this time switching to the GT3 category.

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Nick Halstead made his British Touring Car Championship debut at Croft in 2021, substituting for Rick Parfitt Jr.