Association With Walter Wolf
At the start of the 1976 season, Canadian oil millionaire Walter Wolf bought 60% of Frank Williams Racing Cars. However, Frank Williams was retained as team manager. The team inherited the 308C car used by Hesketh Racing during the final races of 1975, rebranding it as the Wolf-Williams FW05, and took Jacky Ickx back as lead driver. However, the car turned out to be overweight and Ickx qualified in only four races, with a best result of seventh in the Spanish Grand Prix, before he was fired and replaced by the returning Merzario. A second car was raced during the first half of the season by Frenchman Michel Leclère.
At season's end, Wolf decided to restructure the team, removing Frank Williams from the manager's job. Disillusioned, Williams left the team altogether, to set up Williams Grand Prix Engineering with Patrick Head in 1977.
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