Grand Prix of Austria 1999
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9th of 16 races in the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship | ||
Surname: | XXIII Grand Prix of Austria | |
Date: | July 25, 1999 | |
Place: | Spielberg | |
Course: | A1 ring | |
Length: | 306.649 km in 71 laps of 4.319 km
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Weather: | overcast and cool | |
Spectator: | ~ 55,000 | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Mika Hakkinen | McLaren-Mercedes |
Time: | 1: 10.954 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Mika Hakkinen | McLaren-Mercedes |
Time: | 1: 12.107 min (lap 39) | |
Podium | ||
First: | Eddie Irvine | Ferrari |
Second: | David Coulthard | McLaren-Mercedes |
Third: | Mika Hakkinen |
McLaren-Mercedes
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Leadership laps
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The 1999 Austrian Grand Prix (officially the XXIII Austrian Grand Prix ) took place on July 25th on the A1-Ring in Spielberg and was the ninth race of the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship . Eddie Irvine took first place ahead of David Coulthard and Mika Häkkinen .
report
background
Mika Salo , who has competed in two races at BAR this season , was brought in as a substitute driver for the injured Michael Schumacher . The nominated test and actual substitute driver Luca Badoer was not considered because of his current Minardi commitment.
The planned new driver for Williams for the 2000 season , Juan Pablo Montoya , announced before the race that he would not participate in the next season.
training
Friday training
With 1: 13.303, Damon Hill was the fastest driver on Friday, around two hundredths behind Häkkinen. Coulthard, Zonta, Alesi and Ralf Schumacher also follow. Irvine is in ninth place, the substitute driver for Michael Schumacher, Mika Salo, is in 16th position and Wurz only reached 20th place. The slowest driver, Toranosuke Takagi, is around three seconds behind the best time.
Saturday training
David Coulthard set the fastest training time with 1: 11.801, followed by Häkkinen, Irvine, Herbert, Fisichella and Frentzen. Mika Salo was in ninth position, Wurz 13th. The slowest driver, Pedro de la Rosa, is around two and a half seconds behind the best time.
Qualifying
Mika Häkkinen was able to secure the pole position with 1: 10.954 - the only time below 1:11. Behind them are Coulthard, Irvine, Frentzen, Barrichello, Herbert and in seventh place Salo. Wurz reached tenth position 1.9 seconds behind. The slowest driver, Marc Gené, was around three and a half seconds behind the fastest time.
Warm-up
Häkkinen was the fastest driver in the warm-up before the race with 1: 13.264, followed by Coulthard, Villeneuve, Diniz, Alesi, Hill and Irvine in seventh place. Wurz achieved the ninth fastest time, Salo was 15th. The slowest driver, Alessandro Zanardi, was around two and a half seconds behind the best time.
run
During the warm-up lap, a fan threw a smoke bomb on the track in the last corner, but a marshal can remove it before the start of the race.
After the start of the race, Häkkinen was able to successfully maintain the lead, behind that Irvine tried unsuccessfully to pass Coulthard on the outside in turn one. Frentzen lost one position to Barrichello at the start. In the next bend Coulthard tried to pass Häkkinen inside, but Häkkinen turned in earlier and Coulthard turned the Finn around. The rest of the field had to slow down unexpectedly, so Barrichello was able to take second place and Salo drove into Herbert's rear. Both were able to continue, but had to later due to a front wing defect (Salo) and a broken off rear wing (Herbert). Herbert will only be able to intervene in the race again on lap five. Barrichello had the momentum on his side and started to overtake before turn three, but slipped past the apex and now had to fend off Irvine.
Häkkinen started to catch up from behind and followed Alesi for several laps, but Alesi was always able to avoid the overtaking as the Frenchman was able to regularly overtake the driver in front of him. Alesi was able to overtake Zonta, Fisichella and Villeneuve, among others, but Häkkinen was also able to overtake steadily. On lap 24 Diniz, who is driving a very good race in fifth, pits for his first stop. Its stop time is 9.9 seconds. On the following lap his team-mate Alesi comes into the pit lane in sixth place. His stop is processed better and Alesi only stopped for 8.1 seconds. Runner-up Barrichello came into the pits on lap 38, but a long stop of 12.5 seconds threw the Brazilian back behind Frentzen.
In the duel for the lead, Coulthard has to pit first on lap 40, his stopping time is 10.5 seconds. At the exit, Coulthard was overtaken by his teammate Häkkinen, who in turn went to the pits on the following lap and came back on the track after 9.6 seconds. On lap 44, the leader Irvine, who had consistently set the fastest personal laps in the previous laps, was the last of the top drivers to enter the pit lane. A perfect stop with 9.6 seconds brings Irvine back on the track ahead of Coulthard. With better Ferrari tactics, Eddie Irvine won the race ahead of David Coulthard and Mika Häkkinen. Frentzen took fourth place, the Austrian Alexander Wurz scored two points in his home race with fifth place and Pedro Diniz, who drove very well that day, took the last remaining point. The trophy for the winning constructor Ferrari took Ross Brawn contrary.
Registration list
classification
Qualifying
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap |
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1 | Eddie Irvine | Ferrari | 71 | 1 | 1: 28: 12.438 | 3 | 1: 12.787 |
2 | David Coulthard | McLaren-Mercedes | 71 | 1 | + 0.313 | 2 | 1: 12.855 |
3 | Mika Hakkinen | McLaren-Mercedes | 71 | 1 | + 22.282 | 1 | 1: 12.107 |
4th | Heinz-Harald Frentzen | Jordan-Mugen-Honda | 71 | 1 | + 52.803 | 4th | 1: 13.176 |
5 | Alexander Wurz | Benetton Playlife | 71 | 1 | +1: 06.358 | 10 | 1: 13.654 |
6th | Pedro Diniz | Clean Petronas | 71 | 2 | +1: 10.933 | 16 | 1: 13.093 |
7th | Jarno Trulli | Cheers Peugeot | 70 | 1 | + 1 lap | 13 | 1: 14.112 |
8th | Damon Hill | Jordan-Mugen-Honda | 70 | 1 | + 1 lap | 11 | 1: 13.960 |
9 | Mika Salo | Ferrari | 70 | 2 | + 1 lap | 7th | 1: 13.481 |
10 | Olivier Panis | Cheers Peugeot | 70 | 1 | + 1 lap | 18th | 1: 13.465 |
11 | Marc Gené | Minardi-Ford | 70 | 1 | + 1 lap | 22nd | 1: 14.517 |
12 | Giancarlo Fisichella | Benetton Playlife | 68 | 1 | DNF | 12 | 1: 13.579 |
13 | Luca Badoer | Minardi-Ford | 68 | 3 | + 3 rounds | 19th | 1: 14.622 |
14th | Johnny Herbert | Stewart-Ford | 67 | 2 | + 4 rounds | 6th | 1: 12.641 |
15th | Ricardo Zonta | BAR-Supertec | 63 | 1 | DNF | 15th | 1: 14.063 |
- | Rubens Barrichello | Stewart-Ford | 55 | 1 | DNF | 5 | 1: 13.278 |
- | Jean Alesi | Clean Petronas | 49 | 1 | DNF | 17th | 1: 13.228 |
- | Pedro de la Rosa | Arrows | 38 | 1 | DNF | 21st | 1: 14.914 |
- | Alessandro Zanardi | Williams-Supertec | 35 | - | DNF | 14th | 1: 14.381 |
- | Jacques Villeneuve | BAR-Supertec | 34 | - | DNF | 9 | 1: 13.977 |
- | Toranosuke Takagi | Arrows | 25th | - | DNF | 20th | 1: 15.361 |
- | Ralf Schumacher | Williams-Supertec | 8th | - | DNF | 8th | 1: 16.173 |
World Cup stands after the race
The first six of the race got 10, 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.
Driver ranking
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Constructors' championship
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Individual evidence
- ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Overview Austria 1999 ( Memento from March 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Friday training Austria 1999 ( Memento from March 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Austria 1999
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Austria 1999
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Austria 1999
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Austria 1999
- ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Race Austria 1999 ( Memento from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Race Austria 1999