Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Mo te wa o te 1976 Formula One, i hokona e te Kanata a Walter Wolf te 60% o te roopu Frank Williams Racing Cars, i whakaae ki te pupuri i te rangatira o mua a Williams hei kaiwhakahaere. Heoi, i wehe a Williams i te roopu i mua o te tiimata o te waa 1977 ki te whakatuu i tana roopu hou Williams Grand Prix Engineering. I muri i te whakahaere i tetahi Hesketh 308C i whakaingoatia i te 1976, me hanga e Wolf tana ake motuka, me te whakauru i tetahi roopu kaihoahoa mohio mo te mahi, i arahina e Harvey Postlethwaite, i mahi i Hesketh Racing. Ko te WR1 te motuka tuatahi a te roopu i hangaia e ia ano, ana i tino miharo ia i te wa i wikitoria ai a Scheckter i tana tuatahi i te 1977 Argentine Grand Prix. Ka wikitoria te tangata o Awherika ki te Tonga i etahi atu whakataetae e rua, ko te Monaco Grand Prix rongonui me te whakataetae kaainga o te roopu i Kanata, katoa i roto i te chassis WR1. I te mutunga ka mutu ia i te Whakataetae i te tuarua o nga waahi. I te katoa, ko te WR1 te tino angitu o nga chassis e toru i whakamahia i te tau 1977: i whakataetae ia i roto i te tekau o nga whakataetae 17, i eke ki nga wikitoria e toru me tetahi huringa tere. I whakahaerehia e Scheckter tētahi atu huringa tere rawa i te
Ko te Japanese Grand Prix i roto i te WR3 me tetahi tuunga tuunga me te WR2 i Hockenheim.