About Tom Walkinshaw
Thomas Dobbie Thomson Walkinshaw was a British racing car driver from Scotland and the founder of the racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR). He was also involved in professional rugby union, as owner of Gloucester Rugby, and chairman of the team owners organisation for the Aviva Premiership. Walkinshaw and Percy won six of the 14 races in the championship but could only finish the championship third behind the Eggenberger Volvo 240T's of Gianfranco Brancatelli and Thomas Lindström. Walkinshaw comfortably led the race for the first 6 laps from teammate Jeff Allam and Australian Peter Brock in his Holden Dealer Team VK Commodore before retiring with no oil pressure. In 1984, he won the European Touring Car Championship in a 5.3-litre, V12 Jaguar XJS.
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