Walter Wolf

Walter Wolf (born 5 October 1939) is a Canadian oil-drilling equipment supplier who in the early 1970s made a fortune from the North Sea oil business and decided to join the world of Formula One (F1) motor racing.

Life and career

Wolf was born in Graz, Austria. His mother was a Slovene from Lower Styria, while his father was an Austrian. After the Anschluss, the family moved to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Wolf spent his childhood in Maribor, Slovenia. After his father returned from a Soviet military internment camp in 1951, the family moved to Wuppertal in West Germany. In 1958, they moved to Canada.

In Canada, Wolf became a renowned businessman. At first his funds helped prop up Frank Williams' fledgling F1 team before Williams left in 1977 to form Williams Grand Prix Engineering (later the Williams F1) team. Wolf's team continued as Walter Wolf Racing and before being wound up in 1979 managed to win three F1 Grands Prix.

In 1993 Wolf helped finance the unsuccessful US Fire Apparatus company Firewolf Industries, housed in a former Piper Aircraft factory building near Lakeland, Florida, US. The actor and vintage car collector L. Christian Mixon worked as a sales manager for this company briefly in 1993.

List of Animaniacs characters

This is a list of characters from the Warner Bros. animated television series Animaniacs.

Yakko, Wakko, and Dot

Yakko, Wakko, and Dot – the "Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister)", voiced by Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, and Tress MacNeille. Yakko (the oldest) is a fast-talking smart aleck; he has many of the mannerisms of Groucho Marx. Wakko (the middle child) has a huge appetite and a gag bag filled with tricks. He often adopts a scouse accent, modeled by Harnell after a younger Ringo Starr). Dot (the youngest) is cute and sassy, and uses her apparent innocence to manipulate and torment those who stand in her way. Within this fictional reality, the siblings were created in 1929 and often appear in other characters' skits, usually being chased by Ralph the security guard; most other characters are confined to their own segments.

Walter Wolf (disambiguation)

Walter Wolf is a Canadian oil-drilling equipment supplier.

Walter Wolf is also the name of:

Walter Wolf Racing

Walter Wolf Racing was a Formula One constructor from 1977 to 1979, notable for winning the very first race the team entered. It was owned and run by Canadian Walter Wolf, but was based in the United Kingdom and raced under both the Canadian and British nationalities at different points during their existence.

History

1975–77

In 1975, the Austrian naturalized 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. 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 arrived as chief engineer. Jacky Ickx and Frenchman Michel Leclère were hired to drive. The team, however, 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, to be followed by a string of pay-drivers.

Walter Wolf (politician)

Walter Wolf (27 February 1907 in Gotha – 2 April 1977 in Potsdam) was a German politician and member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

Wolf was the culture minister of Thuringia from 1945 until 1947.

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