1999 Italian Grand Prix

October 2017 F1 1999 Belgian Grand Prix 1999 European Grand Prix Italy Italian 13 16 1999 Monza 1995-1999.png Autodromo Nazionale di Monza (last modified in 1995) 70º Gran Premio Campari d'Italia 12 September Autodromo Nazionale di MonzaMonza, Lombardy, Italy Permanent racing facility 3.585 5.770 53 190.022 305.810 Hot and dry with temperatures reaching up to 30 C FWeather info for the 1999 Italian Grand Prix at Weather Underground Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1:22.432 Germany Ralf Schumacher Williams-Supertec 1:25.579 48 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen-Honda Germany Ralf Schumacher Williams-Supertec Finland Mika Salo Ferrari ITA The 1999 Italian Grand Prix (formally the 70º Gran Premio Campari d'ItaliaMotor Racing Programme Covers: 1999 http://www.progcovers.com/motor/monza99.jpg The Programme Covers Project 10 November 2017) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 September 1999 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza near Monza, Italy. It was the thirteenth race of the 1999 Formula One World Championship, and the last held on this layout. The 53-lap race was won by Heinz-Harald Frentzen, driving a Jordan-Mugen-Honda, after McLaren's Mika Häkkinen, seeking to defend his Drivers' Championship title, spun off while leading comfortably. Ralf Schumacher was second in a Williams-Supertec, with Mika Salo third in a Ferrari. Häkkinen's rival Eddie Irvine finished sixth in the other Ferrari, thus moving level on points with the Finn at the top of the Drivers' Championship. This was the first one-two finish between two German Formula One drivers since the 1997 Japanese Grand Prix. Though the victory moved Frentzen to within ten points of Häkkinen and Irvine, it would turn out to be his third and last victory in Formula One, as well as the last for engine suppliers Mugen. It was also the Jordan team's only victory in dry conditions, their others coming in the rain. This was Damon Hill's final classified Formula One race finish. He failed to finish each of his subsequent three races. Report Qualifying Going into the race, McLaren's Mika Häkkinen led the Drivers' Championship by a single point from Ferrari's Eddie Irvine, with Jordan's Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Häkkinen's team-mate David Coulthard also still in contention. Häkkinen was expected to do well on the fast Monza circuit, and duly claimed pole position by half a second from Frentzen. Coulthard was third, while Alessandro Zanardi, who had been having a poor year with Williams, was fourth, just ahead of teammate Ralf Schumacher. On Ferrari's home soil, Irvine had a poor qualifying session and could only manage eighth, behind teammate Mika Salo in sixth and Stewart's Rubens Barrichello – who had just signed with Ferrari to replace Irvine in 2000 – in seventh. Completing the top ten were Damon Hill in the second Jordan and Olivier Panis in the Prost. Race At the start, Häkkinen led away while Zanardi shot past Coulthard and Frentzen into second. Frentzen quickly re-passed Zanardi, but Coulthard fell further back, behind Schumacher and Salo. Meanwhile, at the back of the field, Minardi's Marc Gené tangled with Arrows' Pedro de la Rosa at the Roggia chicane and became the first retirement, while on the second lap Benetton's Giancarlo Fisichella and Sauber's Pedro Diniz both spun off at the Rettifilo chicane. On lap 3, Zanardi ran over a kerb and damaged the underside of his car. He managed to hold on to third place for another 15 laps, while Häkkinen and Frentzen pulled away. Barrichello passed Coulthard on lap 11 and then Salo on lap 19, while Zanardi waved Schumacher past on lap 18. On lap 24, there was more drama at the back as Toranosuke Takagi in the second Arrows tried to overtake Luca Badoer in the second Minardi at the Rettifilo, only to run into the back of Badoer and end his race. Barrichello overtook Zanardi on lap 26; Salo did the same at the start of lap 28. At this point, Häkkinen led Frentzen by eight seconds, with Schumacher a further two-and-a-half seconds back. But on lap 30, going into the Rettifilo, Häkkinen made a mistake changing gear – selecting first instead of secondF1 Racing. October 1999. – and spun off, in a virtual repeat of his unforced error at San Marino earlier in the year. In a rare show of emotion, the Finn burst into tears at the side of the track. Frentzen thus inherited the lead as the front-runners began to make their pit stops. When these had been completed, Salo had moved back ahead of Barrichello and into third, while Coulthard and Irvine had both leapfrogged Zanardi and were now fifth and sixth. Over the closing laps, Frentzen retained a comfortable lead over Schumacher – despite the Williams driver setting the fastest lap of the race on lap 48 – while Coulthard tried unsuccessfully to find a way past Barrichello, allowing Salo to pull away from both of them. Frentzen's eventual margin of victory was 3.2 seconds, with a further eight seconds back to Salo and another six back to Barrichello. Coulthard finished half a second behind the Stewart driver, but nine ahead of Irvine, who himself held off Zanardi for the final point. This point moved Irvine level with Häkkinen in the Drivers' Championship on 60 points apiece (Häkkinen retained the lead on countback with four wins against Irvine's three), while the win put Frentzen just ten points behind on 50, with Coulthard on 48. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari cut McLaren's lead to six points, 108 to 102. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Lap Gap 1 1 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1:22.432 2 8 DEU Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen-Honda 1:22.926 +0.494 3 2 GBR David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:23.177 +0.745 4 5 ITA Alessandro Zanardi Williams-Supertec 1:23.432 +1.000 5 6 DEU Ralf Schumacher Williams-Supertec 1:23.636 +1.204 6 3 FIN Mika Salo Ferrari 1:23.657 +1.225 7 16 BRA Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 1:23.739 +1.307 8 4 GBR Eddie Irvine Ferrari 1:23.765 +1.333 9 7 GBR Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 1:23.979 +1.547 10 18 FRA Olivier Panis Prost-Peugeot 1:24.016 +1.584 11 22 CAN Jacques Villeneuve BAR-Supertec 1:24.188 +1.756 12 19 ITA Jarno Trulli Prost-Peugeot 1:24.293 +1.861 13 11 FRA Jean Alesi Sauber-Petronas 1:24.591 +2.159 14 10 AUT Alexander Wurz Benetton-Playlife 1:24.593 +2.161 15 17 GBR Johnny Herbert Stewart-Ford 1:24.594 +2.162 16 12 BRA Pedro Diniz Sauber-Petronas 1:24.596 +2.164 17 9 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Playlife 1:24.862 +2.430 18 23 BRA Ricardo Zonta BAR-Supertec 1:25.114 +2.682 19 20 ITA Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 1:25.348 +2.916 20 21 ESP Marc Gené Minardi-Ford 1:25.695 +3.263 21 14 ESP Pedro de la Rosa Arrows 1:26.383 +3.951 22 15 JPN Toranosuke Takagi Arrows 1:26.509 +4.077107% time: 1:28.202 Source:http://www.statsf1.com/en/1999/italie/qualification.aspx Italy 1999 - Qualifications StatsF1 29 March 2016 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 8 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen-Honda 53 1:17:02.923 2 10 2 6 Germany Ralf Schumacher Williams-Supertec 53 + 3.272 5 6 3 3 Finland Mika Salo Ferrari 53 + 11.932 6 4 4 16 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 53 + 17.630 7 3 5 2 UK David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 53 + 18.142 3 2 6 4 UK Eddie Irvine Ferrari 53 + 27.402 8 1 7 5 Italy Alessandro Zanardi Williams-Supertec 53 + 28.047 4   8 22 Canada Jacques Villeneuve BAR-Supertec 53 + 41.797 11   9 11 France Jean Alesi Sauber-Petronas 53 + 42.198 13   10 7 UK Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 53 + 56.259 9   11 18 France Olivier Panis Prost-Peugeot 52 Engine 10   Ret Retired 17 UK Johnny Herbert Stewart-Ford 40 Clutch 15   Ret Retired 15 Japan Toranosuke Takagi Arrows 35 Spun Off 22   Ret Retired 14 Spain Pedro de la Rosa Arrows 35 Withdrew 21   Ret Retired 1 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 29 Spun Off 1   Ret Retired 19 Italy Jarno Trulli Prost-Peugeot 29 Overheating 12   Ret Retired 23 Brazil Ricardo Zonta BAR-Supertec 25 Wheel Bearing 18   Ret Retired 20 Italy Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 23 Collision 19   Ret Retired 10 Austria Alexander Wurz Benetton-Playlife 11 Electrical 14   Ret Retired 12 Brazil Pedro Diniz Sauber-Petronas 1 Spun Off 16   Ret Retired 9 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Playlife 1 Spun Off 17   Ret Retired 21 Spain Marc Gené Minardi-Ford 0 Collision 20  Sources:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1999/80/ 1999 Italian Grand Prix formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20150109175636/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1999/80/ 9 January 2015 24 December 20151999 Italian GP: Classification ChicaneF1.com http://www.chicanef1.com/race.pl?year=1999&gp=Italian%20GP&type=res 2 August 2007 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 FIN Mika Häkkinen60 2 GBR Eddie Irvine60 3 GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen50 4 GBR David Coulthard48 5 GER Michael Schumacher32Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1999/italie/championnat.aspx Italy 1999 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 18 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR McLaren-Mercedes108 2 ITA Ferrari102 3 IRE Jordan-Mugen-Honda57 4 UK Williams-Supertec30 5 UK Stewart-Ford17Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References 1999 Italian GP: Overview ChicaneF1.com http://www.chicanef1.com/racetit.pl?year=1999&gp=Italian%20GP 2 August 2007 16 July 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110716073138/http://www.chicanef1.com/racetit.pl?year=1999&gp=Italian%20GP dead Italian Grand Prix 1999 1999 Belgian Grand Prix 1999 European Grand Prix 1998 Italian Grand Prix 2000 Italian Grand Prix Italian Grand Prix Category:Italian Grand Prix Grand Prix Category:September 1999 sports events in Italy