Post a few examples here, and we'll see what we can see.
A grey card, like a white card, has no net colour, it is on the spectrum of black to white. The problem is that anything will look white if it is overexposed enough, so unless you are incredibly careful, or intentionally underexpose a white card image (making it grey), you may accidentally overexpose it, and no matter what colour it should have looked given the ambient light, it will look perfectly white.
(ummmm - someone else want to try - that seems as clear as mud to me)