1999 Malaysian Grand Prix

 1999 Malaysian Grand Prix

Racing data
15th of 16 races in the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	I Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix
Date:	October 17, 1999
Place:	Sepang
Course:	Sepang International Circuit
Length:	310.352 km in 56 laps of 5.542 km
Weather:	cloudy and hot
Spectator:	~ 80,000
Pole position
Driver:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari
Time:	1: 39.688 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari
Time:	1: 40.267 min (lap 25)
Podium
First:	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari
Second:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari
Third:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes

The Malaysian Grand Prix 1999 (officially I Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix ) took place on 17 October at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang instead and was the 15th race of the Formula 1 World Championship in 1999 . Eddie Irvine took first place ahead of Michael Schumacher and Mika Häkkinen .

report

background

This was Malaysia’s first Formula 1 Grand Prix . The Sepang circuit will remain on the calendar for 19 years up to and including the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship . Michael Schumacher also returned to the Ferrari cockpit after his leg injury.

training

Friday training

The session took place on a wet track that dried up with time. Jacques Villeneuve set the fastest lap time with 1: 42.407 ahead of Coulthard, Alesi, Irvine, Michael Schumacher and Diniz. The world championship leader Häkkinen reached eighth place with a gap of seven tenths. The slowest driver, Marc Gené, was around seven seconds behind the fastest time and around three seconds behind the penultimate Takagi.

Saturday training

The returnees Michael Schumacher finished the fastest training time with 1: 40.424 before his teammates Irvine, Häkkinen, Herbert, Coulthard and Villeneuve. The slowest driver, Toranosuke Takagi, was around four and a half seconds behind the best time.

Qualifying

Michael Schumacher took pole position with 1: 39.688 with a lead of almost a second over the second Irvine. Behind them are the McLaren duo Coulthard and Häkkinen and the Stewart duo Herbert and Barrichello in sixth place. Frentzen had considerable coordination problems with his car and only achieved 14th place. The slowest driver, Toranosuke Takagi, was around five seconds behind the fastest time.

Warm-up

Rubens Barrichello set the fastest time with 1: 41.679 ahead of Coulthard, Häkkinen, Irvine, Michael Schumacher and Herbert. Trulli suffered an engine failure during the warm-up, the first of three engine failures for Peugeot. The slowest driver, Marc Gené, was around four seconds behind the best time.

run

There was a high probability of rain before the start of the race, but the track stayed dry until the end of the race. On the warm-up lap, Trulli suffered engine damage for the second time this weekend and was unable to take part in the race.

After the start of the race, Michael Schumacher kept the lead from Irvine, Coulthard and Häkkinen. The Scot would have let Häkkinen pass in turn one, but Häkkinen did not take the opportunity. In turn two, Fisichella crashed into Hill, who could not continue the race. Fisichella suffered a puncture and will finish the race four laps behind. During the third round, Michael Schumacher let his teammate Irvine pass so that he could collect valuable points for the world championship. At the same time, the German began to hold back the McLarens behind until Coulthard squeezed past Schumacher in the second corner on lap four. Panis also suffered engine damage on lap five; it was the third broken Peugeot engine that day. Coulthard started chasing Irvine until the Scot rolled out on the penultimate straight just before lap 15. Michael Schumacher, meanwhile, clearly stopped Häkkinen for around eight laps, on lap 22 Schumacher began to pull away from Häkkinen in order not to endanger his own pit stop. On the same lap, Michael Schumacher set the fastest lap time to date with 1: 40.943 and was two seconds faster than the leading Irvine.

On lap 25, Irvine began his first of two planned stops, after about seven seconds of standing he came back on the track. Two laps later, Häkkinen came to the planned only stop, Michael Schumacher the following lap also to his only stop. After the pit stops, Irvine continued to lead ahead of Michael Schumacher and Häkkinen. On lap 41 Irvine made his second and final pit stop, but after a quick check-in in under seven seconds, he came out on the track in third place behind Michael Schumacher and Häkkinen. For a long time it looked as if Häkkinen would finish the race in second place, until he had to refuel again on lap 47 and thus briefly fell back to fourth place, until he overtook Herbert again for third place on lap 53. In lap 52 there was internal castling at Ferrari and with it Eddie Irvine won the race in Malaysia ahead of Michael Schumacher and Mika Häkkinen . This was also the 125th victory for Ferrari as a designer and engine manufacturer, the fourth and final victory for Eddie Irvine in Formula 1 and the last point placement for the Stewart team. The winner's trophy was presented to Eddie Irvine by Mahathir bin Mohamad , the Prime Minister of Malaysia . The trophy for the victorious designer Ferrari was also presented by Mahathir bin Mohamad, who also gave their trophies to the second and third placed drivers.

After the race

The supposedly illegal wind deflector

Almost immediately after the race, both Ferrari F399s were disqualified from the race weekend because the side wind deflectors ( "bargeboard" ) did not conform to the rules by ten millimeters during the technical inspection. This would have meant a victory for Häkkinen in Malaysia as well as winning the Formula 1 World Championship, but after a court appeal by Ferrari, the decision of the FIA ​​was reversed and the result was confirmed with Irvine as the winner.

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: 39.688	01
02	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	1: 40.635	02
03	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 40.806	03
04th	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 40.866	04th
05	Johnny Herbert	Stewart-Ford	1: 40.937	05
06th	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	1: 41.351	06th
07th	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	1: 41.444	07th
08th	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-Supertec	1: 41.558	08th
09	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 42.050	09
10	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Supertec	1: 42.087	10
11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	1: 42.110	11
12	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	1: 42.208	12
13	Ricardo Zonta	BAR-Supertec	1: 42.310	13
14th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 42.380	14th
15th	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	1: 42.522	15th
16	Alessandro Zanardi	Williams-Supertec	1: 42.885	16
17th	Pedro Diniz	Clean Petronas	1: 42.933	17th
18th	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	1: 42.948	18th
19th	Marc Gené	Minardi-Ford	1: 43.563	19th
20th	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	1: 43.579	20th
21st	Luca Badoer	Minardi-Ford	1: 44.321	21st
22nd	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	1: 44.637	22nd
107 percent time : 1: 46.666 min (based on the best time of 1: 39.688 min)

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	56	2	1: 36: 38.494	02	1: 41.254
02	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	56	1	+ 1.040	01	1: 40.267
03	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	56	2	+ 9.743	04th	1: 41.103
04th	Johnny Herbert	Stewart-Ford	56	1	+ 17,538	05	1: 41.383
05	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	56	2	+ 32.296	06th	1: 40.810
06th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	56	1	+ 34.884	14th	1: 40.631
07th	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	56	2	+ 54.408	15th	1: 41.328
08th	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	56	2	+1: 00.934	07th	1: 41.950
09	Marc Gené	Minardi-Ford	55	1	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 42.490
10	Alessandro Zanardi	Williams-Supertec	55	3	+ 1 lap	16	1: 42.056
11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	52	3	+ 4 rounds	11	1: 40.960
-	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Supertec	48	2	DNF	10	1: 41.769
-	Pedro Diniz	Clean Petronas	44	2	DNF	17th	1: 41.639
-	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	30th	1	DNF	20th	1: 43.885
-	Luca Badoer	Minardi-Ford	15th	1	DNF	21st	1: 46.367
-	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	14th	-	DNF	03	1: 42.940
-	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-Supertec	07th	-	DNF	08th	1: 46.418
-	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	07th	-	DNF	22nd	1: 46.441
-	Ricardo Zonta	BAR-Supertec	06th	-	DNF	13	1: 46.444
-	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	05	-	DNF	12	-
-	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	00	-	DNF	09	-
-	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	-	-	DNS	18th	-

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  Eddie Irvine Ferrari 70 02  Mika Hakkinen McLaren-Mercedes 66 03  Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen-Honda 51 04th  David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 48 05  Michael sSchumacher Ferrari 38 06th  Ralf Schumacher Williams-Supertec 33 07th  Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 21st 08th  Johnny Herbert Stewart-Ford 15th 09  Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton Playlife 13 10  Mika Salo Ferrari / BAR-Supertec 10 11  Jarno Trulli Cheers Peugeot 7th 11  Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 7th

Item driver constructor Points 13  Pedro Diniz Clean Petronas 3 13  Alexander Wurz Benetton Playlife 3 15th  Olivier Panis Cheers Peugeot 2 16  Marc Gené Minardi-Ford 1 16  Jean Alesi Clean Petronas 1 16  Pedro de la Rosa Arrows 1 -  Toranosuke Takagi Arrows 0 -  Ricardo Zonta BAR-Supertec 0 -  Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 0 -  Alessandro Zanardi Williams-Supertec 0 -  Jacques Villeneuve BAR-Supertec 0 -  Stéphane Sarrazin Minardi-Ford 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Ferrari 118 02  McLaren-Mercedes 114 03  Jordan-Mugen-Honda 58 04th  Stewart-Ford 36 05  Williams-Supertec 33 06th  Benetton Playlife 16

Item constructor Points 07th  Cheers Peugeot 9 08th  Clean Petronas 4th 09  Minardi-Ford 1 09  Arrows 1 -  BAR-Supertec 0

Web links

Commons : Malaysian Grand Prix 1999  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Overview Malaysia 1999 ( Memento from March 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Friday training Malaysia 1999 ( Memento from March 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Malaysia 1999
4. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Malaysia 1999
5. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Malaysia 1999
6. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Malaysia 1999
7. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Race Malaysia 1999 ( Memento from March 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Race Malaysia 1999