Nick Halstead joins TCR UK with Fox Motorsport

Fox Motorsport will debut in the TCR UK at Donington Park. The international GT race-winning team has entered a Honda Civic FK2 for reigning Ginetta GT5 Am champion Nick Halstead.
The event represents a first step into touring car racing for the team that has won races in the International GT Open, 24H Series, British GT Championship and Ginetta GT5 Challenge.
Halstead began racing in 2017 in GT5s with Fox in a Ginetta and has moved up to the series’ Pro category after taking four Am wins last year on his way to becoming class champion.

“I’m tremendously excited about my Touring Car debut as it’s something I’ve been working towards with Fox Motorsport for a little while. It’s an ambition of mine to race and TCR UK is an excellent and accessible way of stepping into this kind of racing. We’re not doing a full season, so our aim will be to get ourselves into a position to challenge for strong results. There are some experienced drivers in TCR UK and the battles at Oulton Park looked fierce, but we have a great team and we’re excited,” Halstead said.

Paul McNeilly, Team Principal, added: “This is an exciting moment for the team. We’ve mainly specialised in GT racing with rear-wheel-drive cars, but we have plenty of team members with experience of World and British Touring Cars, so that should lessen the learning curve a bit. The FK2 Honda has won something like 15 TCR titles globally, so there’s clear pedigree with the car and you can see from the build quality that it’s the perfect car for us right now. It’s been great to have worked with Nick right from the start of his journey into racing and to have helped him become a championship-winning driver in GT5s, so we’re very pleased to take this next step with him.”