Nick Percat returns to the Walkinshaw Andretti United family for the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship, driving the famous No. 2.
Percat continues his drive with the organisations he not only started his Supercars career with, but also won the Bathurst 1000 with on debut in 2011.
Percat’s Walkinshaw Racing journey started in 2007, whilst running in the Austral-ian Formula Ford series, a series in which he would go on to win in dominant fashion two years later, breaking Steven Richards’ record for most race wins in the process.
PICTURED: Nick Percat.
PICTURED: Nick Percat becomes the first rookie winner of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 in 30 years.
He progressed to the Dunlop Super2 Series in 2010 and finished fourth, earning an endurance drive call-up alongside Garth Tander for the Holden Racing Team the following year.
In what was a remarkable feat, the duo proceeded to take out the 2011 Great Race, with Percat becoming the first rookie winner in 30 years.
Whilst continue his co-driving duties with the Holden Racing Team, Percat went on to contest the Super2 Championship and Carrera Cup In the following years, be-fore making his main-game solo debut in 2014 for Walkinshaw Racing.
In his rookie year he went on to score two podiums and finished the season in 12th.
2015 saw a switch to Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport for two seasons, where he would go on to record his first solo race win in Adelaide in 2016, along with a podium later that year at the Bathurst 1000.
In 2017, Percat moved over to Brad Jones Racing, his home for the next five sea-sons, which would yield two more wins, both coming in 2020, whilst finishing sev-enth in the Drivers Championship in both 2020 and 2021.
In 2023, Percat will be teamed up with Chaz Mostert for Walkinshaw Andretti United in what looks set to be a huge year.