Margaret Halliday

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]