Margaret Halliday
New Zealand-Australian motorsport racer (born 1956)
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Margaret Halliday (born 1956) is a New Zealand-born Australian motorsport racer. She was the first woman to win an Australian national motor sport Grand Prix.
Biography
Halliday was born in 1956 in New Zealand.[1][2] She worked as a secretary in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.[2]
Halliday partnered with her then boyfriend Doug Chivas in road races throughout the 1970s and 1980s.[3] The couple had met in Pukekohe, Auckland Region, New Zealand.[4] In 1984, Halliday became the first woman to win an Australian national motorsport Grand Prix,[5] while partnered with Chivas in the 1000cc motorcycle side-car Grand Prix at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.[6][7]
In 2025, Halliday was the featured story on an episode of the Aussie Sidecar Stories podcast.[3]
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