Grand Prix of Germany 1999
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| 10th of 16 races in the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship | ||
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| Surname: | LXI Grand Mobil 1 Prize from Germany | |
| Date: | August 1, 1999 | |
| Place: | Hockenheim | |
| Course: | Hockenheimring | |
| Length: | 307.035 km in 45 laps of 6.823 km
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| Weather: | sunny and hot | |
| Spectator: | ~ 100,000 | |
| Pole position | ||
| Driver: |
 Mika Hakkinen
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 McLaren-Mercedes
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| Time: | 1: 42.950 min | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver: |
David Coulthard
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McLaren-Mercedes
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| Time: | 1: 45.270 min (lap 43) | |
| Podium | ||
| First: |
Eddie Irvine
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 Ferrari
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| Second: |
Mika Salo
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Ferrari
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| Third: |
 Heinz-Harald Frentzen
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 Jordan-Mugen-Honda
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Leadership laps
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The 1999 Grand Prix of Germany (officially the LXI Grand Mobil 1 Prize of Germany ) took place on August 1st at the Hockenheimring in Hockenheim and was the tenth race of the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship . Eddie Irvine took first place ahead of Mika Salo and Heinz-Harald Frentzen .
report
training
Friday training
With 1: 45.677, Jarno Trulli surprisingly set the fastest time in the Prost-Peugeot, with Irvine and Fisichella half a second behind. Coulthard is fourth, Salo is seventh and Häkkinen is tenth, four hundredths ahead of Minardi driver Gené. The slowest driver, Pedro de la Rosa, is around three and a half seconds behind the best time.
Saturday training
Damon Hill secures the fastest training time with 1: 43: 918 ahead of Häkkinen, Barrichello, Frentzen, Panis, Coulthard and Irvine in seventh place. Salo set the ninth fastest time and Gené was in 14th place. Herbert had problems during the training session and was unable to complete any training time. The slowest driver, Toranosuke Takagi, is around three seconds behind the fastest time.
Qualifying
Mika Häkkinen took his 18th and 100th pole position for the McLaren team with the only time below 1:43. This is followed by Frentzen, Coulthard, Salo, Irvine and Barrichello. Gené fetched
Warm-up
David Coulthard was the fastest driver with 1: 45.557, ahead of Panis, Häkkinen, Trulli, Barrichello and Herbert. Irvine finished ninth and Salo twelfth. The slowest driver, Toranosuke Takagi, was around three and a half seconds behind the best time.
run
Häkkinen can maintain the lead, Salo has the best start and can move up from fourth to second. A Minardi drives in the back of the field in the rear of Villeneuve, this turns in Diniz and both fly off in turn one and have to give up. After the first lap, Häkkinen, who can slowly pull away, leads in front of Salo, Coulthard, Frentzen, Barrichello and Irvine. At the entrance to turn twelve, Barrichello overtakes Frentzen and is now fourth. Fisichella fights against his team-mate Wurz, but brakes at turn ten and damages his front wing. Coulthard now starts chasing Salo for second place, but on lap nine Coulthard tore off part of his front wing in a failed overtaking maneuver and has to go to the pits. His stop lasts around 14.8 seconds and he was also refueled at the same time, but too little, as it will turn out later. Meanwhile, Gené only lost one place in the first ten laps and is in 16th place. At the start of lap eleven, Häkkinen has a lead of 5.4 seconds over Salo.
On lap 22, Irvine unexpectedly begins the series of pit stops for the top teams, his stop lasts 9.4 seconds and comes out in fourth place. On the following lap, Salo pits and can intervene again after standing for ten seconds. Salo came back on track in third place just ahead of Irvine. As the last of the top teams, Häkkinen pits in round 24. However, the stop was miserable because the tank hose could not be attached to the car and only the replacement hose worked. After a standing time of 24.3 seconds, Häkkinen was able to continue, he came back in fourth place, behind Salo, Irvine and Frentzen. In the same lap, Coulthard received a 10-second stop-and-go penalty because he took a short cut at a chicane and thus gained an advantage. On lap 25, Salo and Irvine swapped places at the direction of the team. Salo would have been faster than Irvine, but for Irvine the points are more important from the perspective of the driver and the team. In the east curve Häkkinen overtook the third Frentzen, but at the entrance to the Motordrome the tread of the left rear wheel came off completely at full throttle and sent Häkkinen into the tire wall. Häkkinen got out unharmed. On the same lap Coulthard served his sentence, he came back on the track in fifth place and started a chase to catch up with Ralf Schumacher in fourth place. But on lap 39 Coulthard had to go back into the pit lane because he didn't fill up with enough fuel at his first stop. A relatively quick stop meant that Coulthard came back on the track just before Wurz in seventh place. Wurz had more momentum, however, and started to overtake before the first chicane, both drove side by side through the sequence of bends and Wurz had to stop his overtaking attempt at the east bend. One lap later, Panis was overtaken by Coulthard in the east curve and the Scot now took fifth place, as Herbert, who was actually fifth, had to retire due to a gearbox defect.
Eddie Irvine won the German Grand Prix ahead of teammates Mika Salo and Heinz-Harald Frentzen. The winner's trophy for Eddie Irvine was presented by Hans Martin Bury , Minister of State of the Federal Government. The trophy for the victorious designer Ferrari was presented by the main sponsor Mobil 1 , represented by President Jean-Louis Schilansky .
Registration list
classification
Qualifying
run
| Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap |
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| 1 |
Eddie Irvine
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Ferrari
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45 | 1 | 1: 21: 58.594 | 5 | 1: 47.687 |
| 2 |
Mika Salo
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Ferrari
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45 | 1 | + 1.007 | 4th | 1: 47.945 |
| 3 |
Heinz-Harald Frentzen
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Jordan-Mugen-Honda
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45 | 1 | + 5.195 | 2 | 1: 47.619 |
| 4th |
Ralf Schumacher
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Williams-Supertec
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45 | 1 | + 12.809 | 11 | 1: 48.083 |
| 5 |
David Coulthard
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McLaren-Mercedes
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45 | 3 | + 16.823 | 3 | 1: 45.270 |
| 6th |
 Olivier Panis
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Cheers Peugeot
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45 | 2 | + 29.879 | 7th | 1: 46.823 |
| 7th |
 Alexander Wurz
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Benetton Playlife
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45 | 1 | + 33.333 | 13 | 1: 48.455 |
| 8th |
Jean Alesi
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 Clean Petronas
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45 | 3 | +1: 11.291 | 21st | 1: 48.334 |
| 9 |
 Marc Gené
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Minardi-Ford
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45 | 1 | +1: 48.318 | 15th | 1: 49.894 |
| 10 |
Luca Badoer
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Minardi-Ford
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44 | 1 | + 1 lap | 19th | 1: 49.942 |
| 11 |
Johnny Herbert
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Stewart-Ford
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40 | 1 | DNF | 17th | 1: 48.408 |
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Pedro de la Rosa
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Arrows
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37 | 1 | DNF | 20th | 1: 50.534 |
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Mika Hakkinen
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McLaren-Mercedes
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25th | 1 | DNF | 1 | 1: 47.433 |
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Alessandro Zanardi
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Williams-Supertec
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21st | - | DNF | 14th | 1: 49.835 |
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 Ricardo Zonta
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BAR-Supertec
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20th | 1 | DNF | 18th | 1: 49.179 |
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 Toranosuke Takagi
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Arrows
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15th | - | DNF | 22nd | 1: 50.286 |
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Damon Hill
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Jordan-Mugen-Honda
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13 | - | DNF | 8th | 1: 48.925 |
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Jarno Trulli
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Cheers Peugeot
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10 | - | DNF | 9 | 1: 49.285 |
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Giancarlo Fisichella
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Benetton Playlife
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7th | 1 | DNF | 10 | 1: 47.785 |
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Rubens Barrichello
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Stewart-Ford
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6th | - | DNF | 6th | 1: 47.788 |
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 Jacques Villeneuve
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BAR-Supertec
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0 | - | DNF | 12 | - |
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Pedro Diniz
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Clean Petronas
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0 | - | DNF | 16 | - |
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 Germany 1999 ( Memento from March 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Germany 1999
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Germany 1999
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Germany 1999
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Germany 1999
- ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Race Germany 1999 ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Race Germany 1999
