Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Don kakar 1976 Formula One, dan Kanada Walter Wolf ya sayi kashi 60% na ƙungiyar Frank Williams Racing Cars, ya yarda ya ci gaba da mai mallakar Williams a matsayin manajan. Koyaya, Williams ya bar ƙungiyar kafin fara kakar 1977 don kafa sabon ƙungiyarsa Williams Grand Prix Engineering. Bayan ya gudanar da Hesketh 308C mai suna a shekarar 1976, Wolf yanzu yana buƙatar gina motarsa, yana daukar rukuni na masu zane-zane masu fasaha don aikin, wanda Harvey Postlethwaite ya jagoranci, wanda ya yi aiki a Hesketh Racing. WR1 ya zama motar farko ta tawagar da aka gina da kanta kuma ta yi tasiri nan take lokacin da Scheckter ya ci nasara a karon farko a 1977 Argentine Grand Prix. Dan wasan na Afirka ta Kudu zai ci gaba da lashe ƙarin tsere biyu, babbar gasar Monaco da tseren gida na ƙungiyar a Kanada, duk a cikin WR1 chassis. Daga karshe ya gama gasar a matsayi na biyu. Gabaɗaya, WR1 ita ce mafi nasara daga cikin sassan uku da aka yi amfani da su a 1977: ta yi tsere a cikin tsere goma daga cikin tsere 17, ta ci nasara uku da zagaye ɗaya mafi sauri. Scheckter ya sake gudanar da zagaye mafi sauri a gasar Japan
a cikin WR3 da kuma matsayi na farko tare da WR2 a Hockenheim.