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THE PAST: WALTER WOLF RACING
In 1975, the Slovenian-Austrian-Canadian businessman Walter Wolf had started to appear at many of the F1 races during the season. A year later, he bought 60% of Frank Williams Racing Cars while agreeing to keep Frank Williams as manager of the team. Simultaneously Wolf bought the assets of the Hesketh team that had recently withdrawn from F1.
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| Wolf WR2 |
The team was based in the Williams facility at Reading but used most of the cars and equipment once owned by Hesketh Racing. The Hesketh 308C became known as the Wolf-Williams FW05 and soon afterwards Dr. Harvey Postlethwaite (Lord Hesketh's designer) arrived as chief engineer. Jacky Ickx and Frenchman Michel Leclère were hired to drive.
 Dr Harvey Postlethwaite |
On initial outings the team was not very competitive and failed to qualify at a number of races during the year. Leclère left after the French Grand Prix and was replaced by Arturo Merzario while Ickx failed to perform and was dropped after the British Grand Prix. |
At the end of 1976, Wolf decided the team needed restructuring. He removed Frank Williams from the manager's job and replaced him with Peter Warr from Team Lotus. Disillusioned, Williams soon left the team, taking Patrick Head and several others to set up Williams Grand Prix Engineering.
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| Wolf WR2 |
Postlethwaite's WR1 was a conventional Cosworth package but with Jody Scheckter hired from Tyrrell, the new-look team presented a strong package.
 Jody Scheckter |
No-one, however, expected that the team would win its first race in Argentina.
It was in many respects a lucky win with Scheckter starting tenth with six of the cars ahead of him retiring. |
During the 1977 season, Scheckter went on to win the Monaco Grand Prix and the Canadian Grand Prix and also six other podium finishes which enabled him to finish second to Niki Lauda in the World Championship and gave Wolf fourth place in the Constructors' Championship.
The team remained the same for the 1978 season. Postlethwaite produced the WR5, a new car for the ground-effects era. This did not appear until the Belgian GP. Scheckter finished fourth in Spain and second in Germany but the WR5 soon made way for the WR6 with which he ended the year with a third in the US Grand Prix and second in Canada. He finished seventh in the World Championship.
The WR8 soon followed. In mid-season Hunt decided to retire and Wolf quickly hired Keke Rosberg to replace him.
The appearance of the WR9 did little to change the team's fortunes and at the end of the year Wolf grew tired of his F1 adventure and sold the team to Emerson Fittipaldi, who merged its assets into Fittipaldi Automotive. |
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THE PRESENT:WALTER WOLF RACING
The Wolf WR2 is presently owened and raced by Peter Wünsch.
 Peter Wünsch |
Peter raced Speedway during the 1973 and 1974 seasons in Germany with some success and developed his taste for velocity before going into business in the helicopter industry.
Fast forward nearly 20 years later to 2001 and Peter bought a Maserati 300S for his first race on four wheels at Monza. He finished third in class. |
The next season he followed this up with two more third places at Spa and Brands Hatch in the Ferrari/Maserati Challenge – both events where HFO featured on the timetable.
Bitten by the historic motorsport bug, he purchased a BRMP261 and in 2002 raced at Phillip Island, Imola, Donington and Pau before switching to the ex Hill/Reutemann Brabham BT37 in 2003. His first race in HFO was at Estoril 2003 and he now drives a Wolf WR2
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| Wolf WR2 |
WHERE CAN YOU NEXT SEE THE WOLF WR2 IN ACTION? |
| JUL 23-25 |
SILVERSTONE Grand Prix Masters |
| SEP 03-05 |
NOGORO France
ROUND 5 FIA Historic Formula 1 |
The FIA Historic Formula One Championship ™ is at the pinnacle of historic motorsport. Its fans get a taste of classic old school Formula 1 and thrill to the sights and sounds of the cars driven by legends such as Gilles Villeneuve, Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi and Keke Rosberg.
The Championship features the great Grand Prix cars raced between 1966 and 1985 re-creating the spectacle of the legendary 3 litre Formula 1 era on the great Race Circuits of the World. |
The Masters Historic Car Series is for 3 litre F1 Cars built between 1968 and 1978. From the pre-ground effects and pre-turbo era of F1 racing, Grand Prix Masters promises fast racing and close competition. Running in four distinct classes, providing a series of double-header races, emotive grids from the likes of Tyrrell, Lotus, Matra, McLaren, Cooper, Surtees and BRM, compete over two separate races per weekend.
Grand Prix Masters relives a fantastic decade of Grand Prix racing, including the actual cars driven by GP stars such as Hunt, Fittipaldi, Stewart, Amon, Rindt, Hill, Reutemann, Beltoise, Cevert and Peterson. |
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