Matt Halliday

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Matthew Halliday
Nationality	New Zealander
Date of Birth	July 14, 1979 (1979-07-14) (age 28)
Place of Birth	Auckland (New Zealand)
2008 Champ Car World Series
Debut season	2007
Current team	Conquest Racing
Car No.	42
Starts	3
Wins	0
Poles	0
Previous series
2005-2006 2004 2003 2001 1999-2000	A1 Grand Prix Porsche Carrera Cup (AUS) Formula Renault V6 Eurocup Indy Lights Formula Holden

Matthew Halliday (born July 14, 1979 in Auckland) is a motor racing driver from New Zealand. Apart from one season in the Australian Porsche Carrera Cup, his career has involved various single seater series in New Zealand, Europe, and the United States. In 2007, Halliday's competitive participations have been limited to three rounds of the Champ Car World Series with Conquest Racing.

Following two seasons in Formula Holden, he moved to the United States and ran in both the Indy Lights and Toyota Atlantic series in 2001. In 2002 he moved to the Infiniti Pro Series but was injured after two races. He finished 3rd and 4th the inaugural A1GP races at Brands Hatch and continued to have a very successful season with the team. He ran the first three races of the 2007 Champ Car season for Conquest Racing. However, his sponsorship ended after 3 races and he was replaced by Jan Heylen.

[edit] Motorsports Career Results

[edit] American Open Wheel

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

[edit] Champ Car

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Team	Rank	Points
2007	Conquest	LVG Ret	LGB Ret	HST 14	POR	CLE	MTT	TOR	EDM	SAN	ROA	ZOL	ASS	SUR	MEX	Conquest	21st	18

2008 Champ Car season
NHL	Forsythe/Pettit	Minardi	Australia	Rocketsports	Coyne	PKV	PCM	Conquest
1 Wilson 2 Rahal	3 Tracy 7 TBA	4 TBA 14 Doornbos	5 Power 15 TBA	8 Bernoldi	11 TBA 19 TBA	21 TBA 22 Servià	28 TBA 29 Figge	24 Perera 34 TBA
Long Beach - Houston - Laguna Seca - Zolder - Jerez - Cleveland - Mont-Tremblant - Toronto - Edmonton - Portland - Road America - Assen - Surfers Paradise - Mexico City