Walter Wolf (industrialist)

Walter Wolf is a Slovenian-born 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 1 (F1) motor racing. At first his funds helped prop up Frank Williams' fledgling F1 team before Williams left in 1977 to form a new team ("Williams Grand Prix Engineering", which went on to become the highly-successful WilliamsF1 team).

Wolf's team continued as Walter Wolf Racing and before being wound up in 1979 managed to win three F1 Grands Prix.