Walter Wolf
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Walter Wolf | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | Businessman |
Known for | Walter Wolf Racing |
Walter Wolf (born 5 October 1939) is a Slovenian-Canadian businessman who owned a Formula One team that won three races and is the name-sake of cigarette, perfume, and clothing brands.
Life and career
Wolf was born in
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. 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 American 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.
Walter Wolf was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 1998.[1]
In 2008, he was involved in the so-called
Branded products
The Croatian tobacco company
See also
References
- ^ CMHF citation Archived 2011-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Look at the show, listen to the other, judge", Reuters, 1 September 2008.
- ^ Adris' Walter Wolf Archived 2011-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Walter Wolf perfumes and colognes". fragrantica.com. Retrieved 28 December 2021.