Losing enthusiasm for racing
17. Nov 2020
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For 1979 James Hunt decided to leave the McLaren team. Despite a lacklustre season in 1978, James was still in demand. He was the 1976 World Champion after all, and a very charismatic one. He opted to move to the initially very successful Walter Wolf Racing team.
The team’s first ground effect car, the Wolf WR7 designed by Harvey Postlethwaite, was uncompetitive and Hunt soon lost enthusiasm for racing. After failing to finish the 1979 Monaco Grand Prix, the race where six years earlier he had made his Grand Prix debut with Hesketh, Hunt made a statement to the press announcing his immediate retirement from F1 competition, and was replaced by future world champion Keke Rosberg for the rest of the season.
Categories:
Formula 1, Interlagos, Monaco, Monaco Grand Prix, Brazilian Grand Prix, James Hunt, Keke Rosberg, Walter Wolf Racing, Walter Wolf, Wolf, England, Finland, 1979
Source: DR
