Walter Wolf Racing

Walter Wolf Racing (more commonly called Wolf ) is an old stable of Canadian Formula 1 in activity between 1977 and 1979. Based on the bases of the old stable Williams, the Wolf team made a success of the exploit rare to be essential as of her very first Grand Prix.

History

The Wolf stable was rested by the Canadian contractor of Austrian origin Walter Wolf. Impassioned automobile sport, it launches out in 1975 as a patron of the modest stable Williams, then in 1976, with Frank Williams the majority of the shares of the stable repurchases. The Williams team is then renamed Wolf-Williams and engages of the frames Hesketh. Association between Wolf and Williams lasts only one year: at the end of 1976, Walter Wolf repurchases the totality of the stable and separates from Frank Williams. The stable then becomes officially Walter Wolf Racing.

In 1977, for his first season in the discipline as a stable with whole share, Walter Wolf gave himself the means of succeeding. He can count on a technical staff of quality (with in particular Harvey Postletwhaite) and succeeded in attracting a pilot of very first plan, in fact the South-African Jody Scheckter. As of the first GP of the season in Argentina, Jody Scheckter manages to be essential on the wheel of Wolf. Similar exploit had occurred in the history of the championship of the world only in 1954 with the victorious beginnings of Mercedes and of the Mercedes-Benz W196. Even if the victory of Wolf must a little with the chance, it is by no means about an isolated exploit as will prove it during the season the two other victories of Jody Scheckter (in Monaco and Canada) and the second final place of the South-African to the championship.

The season 1978 will be however more delicate for the Wolf team, which in spite of her engagement on the way of the ground effect, will not reiterate the exploits of the former season. Scheckter only finishes 7th with the championship and leaves the stable at the end of the season to join Ferrari where he will be crowned world champion. To replace it, Walter Wolf (who contrary to the majority of the teams of point engages only one car) made call in 1979 with the former world champion James Hunt. Partially démotivé, this last prefers to throw sponge at the end of some races, depity by the weak performances of the car. Despite everything his aggressiveness, its substitute Keke Rosberg will hardly make better and Wolf equips it finishes the season without to have registered the least point with the championship.

After only three seasons, Walter Wolf then decides to stop the activity of his stable.

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