1999 Canadian Grand Prix

 1999 Canadian Grand Prix

Racing data
6th of 16 races in the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	XXXVII Grand Prix Air Canada
Date:	June 13, 1999
Place:	Montreal
Course:	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Length:	305.049 km in 69 laps of 4.421 km
Weather:	sunny and hot
Spectator:	~ 104,069
Pole position
Driver:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari
Time:	1: 19.298 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari
Time:	1: 20.382 min (lap 62)
Podium
First:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Second:	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife
Third:	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari

The 1999 Canadian Grand Prix (officially the XXXVII Grand Prix Air Canada ) took place on June 13 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal and was the sixth race of the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship . Mika Häkkinen took first place ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella and Eddie Irvine .

report

background

The driver of the safety car , Oliver Gavin , borrowed a helmet from Alexander Wurz . The driver Ricardo Zonta , nominated for the 1999 season , traveled to the Grand Prix with four torn tendons in his foot. He was represented by Mika Salo in previous races .

training

Friday training

Eddie Irvine set the fastest time with a time of 1: 20.576, ahead of Coulthard, Michael Schumacher, Jean Alesi, Fisichella, Zonta and, in seventh place, 1.3 seconds behind, Häkkinen. The slowest driver, Pedro Diniz, was around four seconds behind the fastest time.

Saturday training

Michael Schumacher achieved the best training time with 1: 19.281 ahead of Coulthard, Häkkinen, Irvine, Frentzen and Fisichella. The slowest driver, Luca Badoer, was around three and a half seconds behind the fastest time.

Qualifying

For the first time this season, Mika Häkkinen did not take pole position, as he had to admit defeat to Michael Schumacher by 29 thousandths. This is followed by Irvine, Coulthard, Barrichello and Frentzen. The slowest driver, Marc Gené, was around four seconds behind the fastest time.

Warm-up

In the warm-up before the race, David Coulthard set the fastest time with 1: 20.614, ahead of Barrichello, Herbert, Häkkinen, Fisichella, Irvine and Michael Schumacher in seventh place. The slowest driver, Marc Gené, was around five and a half seconds behind the fastest time.

run

Michael Schumacher moved aggressively in front of Häkkinen after the start so as not to give the Finn a chance to overtake. Before corner one, Trulli had to move onto the grass, whereupon his stern broke and hit Alesi and Barrichello to the side. Due to the chaos and the many parts on the track, the safety car had to be sent out onto the track for the first time. Alesi and Trulli had to end the race due to the accident, Barrichello made it back to the pits, where the car was repaired for a long time. Among other things, the left side radiator was fixed with adhesive tape. After the work, Barrichello came back into the race two laps behind. Meanwhile, Wurz rolled out in the pit lane because the drive shaft was broken. With the second lap, the race was released again, Häkkinen and Irvine missed the right time and Michael Schumacher was able to gain a lead. After the third lap, Michael Schumacher was one and a half seconds ahead of Häkkinen, followed by Irvine, Coulthard, Fisichella and Frentzen.

In the last corner, Zonta missed the apex; as a result, the rear of his car broke out and the right rear wheel hit the wall. Due to the difficult recovery of the car, the safety car had to be sent out onto the track for the second time. The race was reopened on lap seven. As with the first restart, Häkkinen missed the right time and Michael Schumacher was able to gain a lead again. After lap 15, the German was 2.7 seconds ahead of Häkkinen and 7.5 seconds ahead of third Irvine. In the same corner as Zonta, Hill hit the wall on lap 15; however, the car was left on the track because Hill could roll far enough from the racing line. The oil flag , a red and yellow striped flag, was waved for several laps .

Finally, on lap 29, Michael Schumacher, who was in the lead, was the third driver to pull his car into the last corner of the wall. When entering the curve, the German broke off the rear and when correcting the car slid too far outwards. The safety car did not have to be deployed thanks to a quick recovery with a crane. When asked what happened, Michael Schumacher answered only as follows:

"Can you have a bit of respect for humans!"

"Have a little respect for people!"

- Michael Schumacher

On lap 35, Villeneuve continued what had happened to Zonta, Hill and Michael Schumacher: he lost his car on the last corner; unlike the drivers mentioned before, Villeneuve's vehicle understeered and hit the wall head-on. This time the safety car was sent out for the third time. Häkkinen, Irvine and Ralf Schumacher were able to react in good time and went to the pit lane for a stop. At Irvine, however, they had problems with refueling and lost many seconds. Coulthard did not go to the pit lane until one lap later and had to line up further back in the field.

The race was reopened on lap 40. Häkkinen was able to keep the lead, Coulthard tried to get past Irvine on the outside, but hit Irvine's rear end and slid into the grass while Irvine spun. For this, Coulthard received a 10-second stop-and-go penalty six laps later . Panis, Zanardi and Badoer received the same penalty for blocking Fisichella and Frentzen from lapping. On lap 65, Frentzen, lying in second place, suffered a defect in the front right brakes and slid backwards into the wall at turn four. The safety car has now been sent out onto the track for the fourth time, as Frentzen was initially unable to get out alone. Due to the late safety car phase, the race was ended with the safety car for the first time in Formula 1 history and so Häkkinen won the race in Canada ahead of Fisichella and Irvine. Mika Häkkinen's trophy was presented by Lucien Bouchard , Prime Minister of the Canadian province of Québec .

After the race

Since three former Formula 1 world champions had an accident in the last corner, this corner became famous under the name "Walls of Champions" .

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
West McLaren Mercedes	1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren MP4 / 14	Mercedes-Benz 3.0 V10	B.
	2	David Coulthard
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro	3	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari F399	Ferrari 3.0 V10	B.
	4th	Eddie Irvine
Winfield Williams	5	Alessandro Zanardi	Williams FW21	Supertec 3.0 V10	B.
	6th	Ralf Schumacher
Benson & Hedges Jordan	7th	Damon Hill	Jordan 199	Mugen-Honda 3.0 V10	B.
	8th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Mild Seven Benetton Playlife	9	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton B199	Playlife 3.0 V10	B.
	10	Alexander Wurz
Red Bull Sauber Petronas	11	Jean Alesi	Clean C18	Petronas 3.0 V10	B.
	12	Pedro Diniz
Arrows	14th	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows A20	Arrows 3.0 V10	B.
	15th	Toranosuke Takagi
Stewart Ford	16	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart SF3	Ford Cosworth 3.0 V10	B.
	17th	Johnny Herbert
Gauloises cheers Peugeot	18th	Olivier Panis	Cheers AP02	Peugeot 3.0 V10	B.
	19th	Jarno Trulli
Fund metal Minardi Ford	20th	Luca Badoer	Minardi M01	Ford 3.0 V10	B.
	21st	Marc Gené
British American Racing	22nd	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR 01	Supertec 3.0 V10	B.
	23	Ricardo Zonta

classification

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	time	begin
01	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	1: 19.298	01
02	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 19.327	02
03	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	1: 19.440	03
04th	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 19.729	04th
05	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	1: 19.930	05
06th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 20.158	06th
07th	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	1: 20.378	07th
08th	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	1: 20.459	08th
09	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	1: 20.557	09
10	Johnny Herbert	Stewart-Ford	1: 20.829	10
11	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	1: 21,000	11
12	Alessandro Zanardi	Williams-Supertec	1: 21.076	12
13	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-Supertec	1: 21.081	13
14th	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 21.094	14th
15th	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	1: 21.252	15th
16	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Supertec	1: 21.302	16
17th	Ricardo Zonta	BAR-Supertec	1: 21.467	17th
18th	Pedro Diniz	Clean Petronas	1: 21.571	18th
19th	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	1: 21.693	19th
20th	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	1: 22.613	20th
21st	Luca Badoer	Minardi-Ford	1: 22.808	21st
22nd	Marc Gené	Minardi-Ford	1: 23.387	22nd
107 percent time : 1: 24.849 min (based on the best time of 1: 19.298 min)

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	69	1	1: 41: 35.727	02	1: 21.047
02	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	69	1	+ 0.782	07th	1: 21.345
03	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	69	1	+ 1.797	03	1: 20.382
04th	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-Supertec	69	1	+ 2.392	13	1: 22.002
05	Johnny Herbert	Stewart-Ford	69	2	+ 2.805	10	1: 22.078
06th	Pedro Diniz	Clean Petronas	69	1	+ 3.711	18th	1: 21.864
07th	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	69	3	+ 5.004	04th	1: 20.961
08th	Marc Gené	Minardi-Ford	68	1	+ 1 lap	22nd	1: 22.888
09	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	68	2	+ 1 lap	15th	1: 22,100
10	Luca Badoer	Minardi-Ford	67	2	+ 2 rounds	21st	1: 23.394
11	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	65	1	DNF	06th	1: 21.284
-	Alessandro Zanardi	Williams-Supertec	50	2	DNF	12	1: 23.442
-	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	41	1	DNF	19th	1: 22.792
-	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Supertec	34	-	DNF	16	1: 22.283
-	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	29	-	DNF	01	1: 20.709
-	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	22nd	-	DNF	20th	1: 23.280
-	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	14th	-	DNF	14th	1: 23.953
-	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	14th	1	DNF	05	1: 23.785
-	Ricardo Zonta	BAR-Supertec	02	-	DNF	17th	2: 03.039
-	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	00	-	DNF	08th	-
-	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	00	-	DNF	09	-
-	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	00	-	DNF	11	-

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

Item driver constructor Points 01  Mika Hakkinen McLaren-Mercedes 34 02  Michael sSchumacher Ferrari 30th 03  Eddie Irvine Ferrari 25th 04th  Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen-Honda 13 04th  Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton Playlife 13 06th  David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 12 06th  Ralf Schumacher Williams-Supertec 12 08th  Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 6th 09  Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 3 10  Johnny Herbert Stewart-Ford 2 11  Olivier Panis Cheers Peugeot 1 11  Jarno Trulli Cheers Peugeot 1

Item driver constructor Points 11  Pedro de la Rosa Arrows 1 11  Jean Alesi Clean Petronas 1 11  Alexander Wurz Benetton Playlife 1 11  Pedro Diniz Clean Petronas 1 -  Toranosuke Takagi Arrows 0 -  Ricardo Zonta BAR-Supertec 0 -  Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 0 -  Marc Gené Minardi-Ford 0 -  Alessandro Zanardi Williams-Supertec 0 -  Jacques Villeneuve BAR-Supertec 0 -  Mika Salo BAR-Supertec 0 -  Stéphane Sarrazin Minardi-Ford 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Ferrari 55 02  McLaren-Mercedes 46 03  Jordan-Mugen-Honda 16 04th  Benetton Playlife 14th 05  Williams-Supertec 12 06th  Stewart-Ford 8th

Item constructor Points 07th  Cheers Peugeot 2 07th  Clean Petronas 2 09  Arrows 1 -  BAR-Supertec 0 -  Minardi-Ford 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Overview Canada 1999 ( Memento from March 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Friday training Canada 1999 ( Memento from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Canada 1999
4. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Canada 1999
5. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Canada 1999
6. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Canada 1999
7. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Overview / Statistics / Friday Training / Saturday Training / Qualifying / Warm-Up / Race Canada 1999 ( Memento from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Race Canada 1999

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