🏳️ Gareth Nixon

Gareth Nixon is a competitive amateur, rated 2,942. This places him at the level of club and regional racing; the front of club fields where drivers are quick and usually self-funded, racing against professionals rather than with them.[1]

Nixon's record spans a single season in the Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by Michelin in 2016, where he started four races for Nixon Investments without recording a win or podium. He finished fourteenth in the final standings with an average finishing position of 13.8. His most frequent rivals included Robby Foley, a much stronger FIA Gold-graded professional and later champion of GT World Challenge America Pro-Am, against whom Nixon finished ahead twice and behind twice across their four shared races. Nixon also beat Kenny Murillo, an FIA Silver-graded professional, in all four races they contested together, and finished ahead of Ashton Harrison, another FIA Silver driver, three times out of four meetings. Against lower-rated competitors such as Zachry Lee and Alex Bachoura, both FIA Bronze-graded champions in endurance series, Nixon's head-to-head records were more mixed, splitting results evenly or finishing behind them.

Nixon retired after the 2016 season, leaving a record of four starts and no wins across a single one-make series. His competitive context shows he raced among semi-professional and professional drivers, and while he occasionally finished ahead of graded competitors, his season as a whole placed him toward the back of the field.