17 Facts About Win Percy

Win Percy found his way into motor sport through his first employment as a motor mechanic at his local garage.

Win Percy won, beating drivers of far more powerful cars in the process.

In 1983, Win Percy won the Willhire 24 Hour in a Porsche 928S.

Win Percy stuck with Toyota for the next four years, until Walkinshaw offered Percy a drive in his Tom Walkinshaw Racing-run Mazda RX-7 for the 1980 season.

Win Percy won the BTCC crown for the 1982 season in the Toyota Corolla.

However, rather than a return to the BTCC, TWR entered three of the big Jaguars in the European Touring Car Championship with Win Percy co-driving the lead car with Walkinshaw.

Once again, the TWR Vitesse cars were entered for the ETCC in 1986 where Win Percy finished 2nd in the Drivers' Championship.

Win Percy had been declared the champion until a month after the championship, when the FIA belatedly applied a rule that each driver's lowest scoring result would be dropped.

However, 1986 saw TWR running Jaguar's works Group C1 entry for the 24 Hours of Le Mans race; Win Percy was given one of the driving slots.

The wreckage finally came to a halt 600 metres down the road but, despite almost obliterating the vehicle, Win Percy walked away from the crash with nothing more than a badly battered helmet.

Win Percy contested the 1988 European Touring Car Championship driving a factory backed Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R with Allan Grice.

Win Percy continued to race in national and international competitions with a variety of teams until the end of the decade, winning the 1989 Spa 24 Hours race in an Eggenberger Motorsport Ford Sierra RS500.

In 1990, at the behest of Holden Special Vehicles owner Tom Walkinshaw, Win Percy officially formed the works Holden Racing Team to contest the Australian Touring Car Championship.

Win Percy, who had injured his shoulder a few weeks prior to Bathurst and felt that veteran Grice was the better choice to drive the final stint.

Win Percy continued to contest the Australian endurance events, driving for the Holden Racing Team in 1993, Wayne Gardner Racing in 1994 and 1995, and John Faulkner Racing in 1997.

Win Percy contested the 1993 British Touring Car Championship season in a Nissan Primera.

Win Percy was taken to hospital, where a medical error led to him being paralysed from the waist down.