1999 European Grand Prix
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| 14th of 16 races in the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship | ||
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| Surname: | Warsteiner Grand Prix of Europe | |
| Date: | September 26, 1999 | |
| Place: | Verbandsgemeinde Adenau | |
| Course: | Nürburgring | |
| Length: | 300.696 km in 66 laps of 4.556 km
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| Planned: | 305.252 km in 67 laps of 4.556 km | |
| Weather: | cloudy with partial rain | |
| Spectator: | ~ 142,000 | |
| Pole position | ||
| Driver: |
 Heinz-Harald Frentzen
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 Jordan-Mugen-Honda
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| Time: | 1: 19.910 min | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver: |
 Mika Hakkinen
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 McLaren-Mercedes
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| Time: | 1: 21.282 min (lap 64) | |
| Podium | ||
| First: |
Johnny Herbert
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Stewart-Ford
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| Second: |
 Jarno Trulli
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 Cheers Peugeot
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| Third: |
 Rubens Barrichello
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Stewart-Ford
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Leadership laps
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The European Grand Prix 1999 (officially Warsteiner Grand Prix of Europe ) took place on 26 September at the Nurburgring in Nurburg place and was the 14th race of the Formula 1 World Championship in 1999 . Johnny Herbert took first place ahead of Jarno Trulli and Rubens Barrichello .
report
background
After the race in Italy , McLaren, Williams, Jordan and Stewart put in test days at Magny-Cours, Coulthard set the best times on all three days. Ferrari tested in Mugello with Irvine and Salo and in Fiorano with Badoer. Benetton tested their aerodynamic components at Cotswold Airport .
training
Friday training
Mika Häkkinen set the fastest time with 1: 20.758 in front of Salo, Panis, Irvine, Ralf Schumacher and Coulthard. Luca Badoer was one and a half seconds behind the fastest time and was able to cover the fifteenth fastest lap with a Minardi, leaving Zanardi and Wurz behind, among others. The slowest driver, Toranosuke Takagi, was around three and a half seconds behind the best time.
Saturday training
Once again, Mika Häkkinen achieved the fastest training time with 1: 18.945, ahead of Ralf Schumacher, Irvine, Coulthard, Barrichello and Hill. Salo, the second Ferrari driver, only finished 14th. The slowest driver, Pedro de la Rosa, was around three and a half seconds behind the best time.
Qualifying
There was heavy rainfall hours before qualifying. Pole position was secured for the second time in his career by Heinz-Harald Frentzen with 1: 19.910, followed by Coulthard, Häkkinen, Ralf Schumacher, Panis and Fisichella. The Ferrari drivers Irvine and Salo only finished ninth and twelve. The slowest driver, Pedro de la Rosa, was around four seconds behind the fastest time.
Warm-up
Giancarlo Fisichella was the fastest driver with 1: 26.935 in front of Coulthard, Frentzen, Ralf Schumacher, Panis and Häkkinen. Irvine and Salo were again in the rear with ten and eight. The slowest driver, Toranosuke Takagi, was around four seconds behind the fastest time.
run
First start
There was a little rain before the race, but before the start the track dried out completely. The first start was canceled after Zanardi moved one row too far back and Gené had problems with the car. Several drivers, including Frentzen and Häkkinen, rolled up their cars and ran the risk of the clutch being too worn out on the second start. A new introductory lap was driven, whereby Gené had to start from the end of the field and the race was shortened by one lap.
Second start
The leading trio got off very well, Häkkinen was able to overtake Coulthard for second and Frentzen to maintain the lead. In the back of the field Hill suffered electrical problems after the first corner and was unable to accelerate. Alesi dodged the grass despite full throttle, Wurz saw Hill too late, swung to the right at the last moment and met Diniz, who overturned. The cleaner's roll bar absorbed much of the impact energy and eventually broke off, putting Diniz at great risk. The surface of the helmet was littered with earth. Diniz and his seat were taken out of the car and taken to a hospital. He survived the accident lightly, with bruises on his shoulder and knee.
The accident sent the safety car onto the track. The race was released again on lap six, there were no shifts in the front positions and so Frentzen continued to lead ahead of Häkkinen, Coulthard, Ralf Schumacher, Fisichella, Panis and in seventh place Irvine, who then passed Panis in sixth place in the penultimate corner passed by. On lap eleven, de la Rosa and Zanardi spun simultaneously in the last corner, but Zanardi could not keep the engine on and had to give up the race. When the leaders came to the curve, the car had not yet been pushed completely off the track.
On lap 17, light rain set in for the first time on the home stretch, after which Häkkinen, Panis and Salo, among others, decided to put on rain tires. One lap later, Irvine also got new tires, but the pit team initially prepared rain tires, only to then not use them again and to mount dry tires instead. The entire unsuccessful pit stop cost Irvine about half a minute. Häkkinen's choice turned out to be wrong as his lap times were around eight seconds slower than those of the dry-tire drivers and Irvine was able to easily overtake Häkkinen for twelfth place. On lap 24, four laps with rain tires, Häkkinen and Salo switched to dry tires again, on lap 26 Häkkinen was finally lapped by Frentzen. On lap 31, the leader Frentzen and the second Coulthard came into the pits at the same time, but Frentzen stayed ahead of Coulthard until he rolled out two corners later and Coulthard took the lead.
On lap 34 rain set in again, only this time much more heavily, many then opted for rain tires, but the leader Coulthard and the second Ralf Schumacher stayed with the dry tires. On lap 37 Coulthard slipped off the track and had to give up, Ralf Schumacher now took the lead. On lap 40 the sun came through the cloud cover, but the track was still very wet and Irvine picked up rain tires in seventh place. On lap 45 Takagi flew off the track and his torn-off bike rolled along the edge of the track. The leader Fisichella, who was able to overtake Ralf Schumacher with his pit stop, flew off on lap 48 and was also unable to continue. Ralf Schumacher was now back in first place until a puncture on lap 49 threw him back and Herbert was now in the lead. Meanwhile, Badoer and Minardi were in fourth place until the gearbox broke on lap 54. This enabled Gené to finish sixth and thus the first point for Minardi since the 1995 Australian Grand Prix . In the meantime, Gené was in fifth place because Villeneuve was eliminated, but on lap 62 Häkkinen passed the Spaniard. Marc Gené's performance was seen by many as one of the few decisive points for the lost World Cup for Irvine, as he failed to score points in seventh place behind Gené and at the end of the season Häkkinen became world champion by two points.
Johnny Herbert won the 1999 European race ahead of Jarno Trulli and Rubens Barrichello . This was Herbert's first victory since the 1995 Italian Grand Prix and also his last Formula 1 victory. This was both the first and last victory for the Stewart team and the last podium finish for Prost . The trophy for Johnny Herbert was presented by Otto Schily , Germany's Minister of the Interior . Team founder Jackie Stewart accepted the trophy for the victorious designer Stewart from Frank Spitzhüttl , Chief Executive Officer of the main sponsor Warsteiner .
Registration list
classification
Qualifying
run
| Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap |
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| 1 |
Johnny Herbert
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Stewart-Ford
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66 | 2 | 1: 41: 54.314 | 14th | 1: 23.010 |
| 2 |
Jarno Trulli
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Cheers Peugeot
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66 | 3 | + 22.619 | 10 | 1: 23.742 |
| 3 |
Rubens Barrichello
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Stewart-Ford
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66 | 1 | + 22.866 | 15th | 1: 22.960 |
| 4th |
Ralf Schumacher
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Williams-Supertec
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66 | 3 | + 39.508 | 4th | 1: 22.237 |
| 5 |
Mika Hakkinen
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McLaren-Mercedes
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66 | 2 | +1: 02.950 | 3 | 1: 21.282 |
| 6th |
 Marc Gené
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Minardi-Ford
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66 | 1 | +1: 05.154 | 20th | 1: 23.657 |
| 7th |
Eddie Irvine
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Ferrari
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66 | 3 | +1: 06.683 | 9 | 1: 22.332 |
| 8th |
Ricardo Zonta
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BAR-Supertec
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65 | 3 | + 1 lap | 17th | 1: 23.067 |
| 9 |
Olivier Panis
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Cheers Peugeot
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65 | 2 | + 1 lap | 5 | 1: 23.905 |
| 10 |
 Jacques Villeneuve
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BAR-Supertec
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61 | 1 | DNF | 8th | 1: 22.564 |
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Luca Badoer
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Minardi-Ford
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53 | 1 | DNF | 19th | 1: 23.745 |
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Pedro de la Rosa
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Arrows
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52 | 2 | DNF | 22nd | 1: 24.857 |
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Giancarlo Fisichella
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Benetton Playlife
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48 | 1 | DNF | 6th | 1: 22.244 |
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Mika Salo
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Ferrari
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44 | 2 | DNF | 12 | 1: 23.404 |
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 Toranosuke Takagi
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Arrows
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42 | 2 | DNF | 21st | 1: 24.848 |
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David Coulthard
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McLaren-Mercedes
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37 | 1 | DNF | 2 | 1: 21.835 |
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Jean Alesi
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 Clean Petronas
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35 | 2 | DNF | 16 | 1: 23.097 |
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Heinz-Harald Frentzen
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Jordan-Mugen-Honda
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32 | 1 | DNF | 1 | 1: 22.082 |
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Alessandro Zanardi
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Williams-Supertec
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10 | - | DNF | 18th | 1: 24,300 |
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Damon Hill
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Jordan-Mugen-Honda
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0 | - | DNF | 7th | - |
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 Alexander Wurz
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Benetton Playlife
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0 | - | DNF | 11 | - |
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Pedro Diniz
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Clean Petronas
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0 | - | DNF | 13 | - |
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 Europe 1999 ( Memento from March 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Friday training Europe 1999 ( Memento from March 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Europe 1999
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Europe 1999
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Europe 1999
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Europe 1999
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Diniz: Discharged from hospital after an accident - DER SPIEGEL - Sport. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
- ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Race Europe 1999 ( Memento from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Race Europe 1999
