The Wolf Racing team was named after its founder Walter Wolf.

Walter Wolf Racing was a Formula One constructor active from 1977 to 1979, which won the first race the team entered. It was owned and run by Canadian Walter Wolf. The team was based in Reading, UK but raced with a Canadian licence.

Walter Wolf bought 60% of Frank Williams Racing Cars. Simultaneously Wolf bought the assets of Hesketh Racing who had withdrawn from F1 due to financial issues and bought some equipment from Embassy Hill after they shut down their F1 team following a plane crash that killed six people including team owner Graham Hill and his driver Tony Brise. The Hesketh 308C became known as the Wolf–Williams FW05.

Due to a lack of succes  Wolf grew tired of his F1 adventure and sold the team to Emerson Fittipaldi in 1979, who merged its assets into Fittipaldi Automotive.

Walter Wolf was also involved in production cars, providing assistance to Lamborghini to develop the Countach in 1978 when the Italian constructor teetered on the brink of bankruptcy.

 

Base:  Reading, United Kingdom,  1977-1979

wr1

The Wolf WR1 was a Formula One car built for the 1977 season by the Walter Wolf Racing team.

Four examples of the car were produced. The first, completed well before the start of the season, was the WR1. Another two identical cars were built: WR2, finished ahead of the first race; and WR3, ready in March 1977. At the end of the season, a fourth car, WR4, was produced with slight adjustments, and WR1 was remodeled in similar fashion for 1978. 

The original car was driven exclusively by South African future 1979 World Champion Jody Scheckter in 1977. WR3 and WR4 were also driven by fellow future World Champion Keke Rosberg in the 1978 season.

WR1 became the team's first self-constructed car and it made an instant impression when Scheckter won on its début at the 1977 Argentine Grand Prix. The South African would go on to win two additional races, the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix and the team's home race in Canada, all in the WR1 chassis.

With the arrival of ground effect in 1978, the car became obsolete, even in its remodelled WR4 configuration, and was used only in some of the races. WR3 and later WR4 were given to Theodore Racing for their new recruit Keke Rosberg, who finished just one of his races in the car, at the 1978 German Grand Prix. 

jody scheckter

1977

ford cosworth dfv 2993 cc V8, naturally aspirated

monaco

 

 

1977-1979

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