Walter Wolf Racing Team

   One of the most elegant car liveries in all Formula 1 History, after the Lotus's black and gold John Player Special, is undoubtedly the beautiful combination of dark blue, red and gold of the Walter Wolf cars.

Wolf racing team is also famous for being one of the rarest to have won its 1st Grand Prix since its first appearence, with its only driver, Jody Scheckter. That was at the 1977 argentinian Grand Prix at Buenos Aires.

 

Initially, Walter Wolf, the owner, was the main Williams team sponsor during the previous season. Its coulours were covering a Hesketh chassis, and the package was under Frank Williams management. 

 At the end of that 1976 season, Wolf bought the whole team from Frank Williams, and raced the following seasons under the Wolf name while williams went to build a new team that became later one of the most successful in Formula 1 History.

 

 

 

During the rest of the 1977 season, Jody scheckter went on to win two more Grand Prix at Monaco and Canada. But that was everything. This fantastic 1st year of racing wasn't about to repeat itself the following years. Their only driver left them for Ferrari in 1979 to win the world drivers championship, while Wolf recruited the 1976 world champion, James Hunt. The latter was no more the fighter he used to be only a couple of years before. He stopped his career in the middle of the season, and was replaced by Keke Rosberg.

At the end of 1979, Walter Wolf left Formula 1 by selling the remains of his team to Copersucar, the Fittipaldi family's F1 team.

 

The team had also an experience in 1977 in CANAM racing with its Wolf Dallara WD1 raced by Chris Amon and Gilles Villeneuve.

 

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