1999 Monaco Grand Prix

 1999 Monaco Grand Prix

Racing data
4th of 16 races in the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	LVII Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Date:	May 16, 1999
Place:	Monte Carlo
Course:	Circuit de Monaco
Length:	262.626 km in 78 laps of 3.367 km
Weather:	sunny and warm
Spectator:	~ 130,000
Pole position
Driver:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Time:	1: 20.547 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Time:	1: 22.259 min (lap 67)
Podium
First:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari
Second:	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari
Third:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes

The 1999 Monaco Grand Prix (officially LVII Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco ) took place on May 16 at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo and was the fourth race of the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship . Michael Schumacher took first place ahead of Eddie Irvine and Mika Häkkinen .

report

background

After the San Marino Grand Prix , some teams put in test days, for example Ferrari and Minardi tested in Fiorano , McLaren and Prost tested in Magny-Cours and Jordan tried out new aerodynamic parts with driver Andrew Gilbert-Scott in Lurcy-Lévis . Luca Badoer came to this race weekend with a minor hand injury.

training

Thursday training

For the first time this season a team other than McLaren set the fastest lap time: Michael Schumacher beat his competitor for the World Championship Häkkinen by almost 13 hundredths with a time of 1: 22.718, followed by Panis, Irvine, Fisichella and Coulthard. Heinz-Harald Frentzen had problems with the set-up of the car during the session and only achieved 19th place with a time of 1: 26.336. All drivers were placed within five and a half seconds.

Saturday training

With a time of 1: 21.249, Michael Schumacher set the fastest lap time ahead of Irvine, Häkkinen and Barrichello. Coulthard could not match the times and only reached 13th place, just under two seconds behind. All drivers were placed within four seconds.

Qualifying

Häkkinen took pole position with 1: 20.547 in front of Michael Schumacher, who reached second place by 64 thousandths. This is followed by Coulthard, Irvine, Barrichello and Frentzen. Alexander Wurz reached tenth place, around one and a half seconds behind the best time. Marc Gené's rear wing tore off after exiting the tunnel and caused a serious accident, but Gené was able to get out unharmed. All drivers were placed within four and a half seconds.

Warm-up

In the warm-up before the race, Michael Schumacher was half a second faster than his teammate Irvine, Häkkinen and Coulthard with a time of 1: 23.792. Except for Takagi, who had problems with his car, all drivers were within seven seconds.

run

On the warm-up lap, Villeneuve's engine caused problems as it threatened to overheat and Diniz and Gené lost fluids on the grid. As in the previous race, Häkkinen drove a very quick introductory lap.

At the start Michael Schumacher was able to drive away better than Häkkinen and took the lead through the outside of the curve after the Sainte Devote , followed by Häkkinen, Irvine, Coulthard, Barrichello and Frentzen. Both Ferraris were able to make up one place after the start. This constellation remained until lap 35 when Coulthard slowed down due to transmission problems and later had to retire. Irvine, who was still stuck behind Häkkinen, took advantage of Coulthard's failure for an early pit stop. On lap 32 Herbert's rear suspension broke before turn five, but a quick reaction prevented an accident and was able to park the Stewart safely. On the same lap, Villeneuve also gave up because of an oil leak. Salo's second BAR also had to give up on lap 36 after an accident at turn six. Salo already lost in the curve before that, the Mirabeau , Öl, where Häkkinen slipped on lap 38 and lost several seconds of time. As a result, Irvine, who had meanwhile done one stop more than Häkkinen, was able to pull into Häkkinen within two seconds. On lap 41 Michael Schumacher made his only pit stop undisturbed, the standing time was 9.9 seconds. Even after his stop, the runner-up Häkkinen was around 20 seconds behind.

Thanks to Häkkinen's pit stop, Irvine was able to achieve second place and stayed there until the end of the race. This race was the first one-two for Ferrari. Häkkinen took third place and rounded off the podium. At the podium ceremony, the Irish flag was incorrectly used instead of the Union Jack for runner-up Irvine . The trophy for the winner Michael Schumacher was from Rainier III. , the ruling Prince of Monaco. Jean Todt accepted the trophy for the victorious Ferrari designer from Michel Boeri , chairman of the Monaco automobile club .

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	Mika Salo

classification

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	time	begin
01	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 20.547	01
02	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	1: 20.611	02
03	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 20.956	03
04th	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	1: 21.011	04th
05	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	1: 21.530	05
06th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 21.556	06th
07th	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	1: 21.769	07th
08th	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Supertec	1: 21.827	08th
09	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	1: 21.938	09
10	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	1: 21.968	10
11	Alessandro Zanardi	Williams-Supertec	1: 22,152	11
12	Mika Salo	BAR-Supertec	1: 22.241	12
13	Johnny Herbert	Stewart-Ford	1: 22.248	13
14th	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	1: 22.354	14th
15th	Pedro Diniz	Clean Petronas	1: 22.659	15th
16	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-Supertec	1: 22.719	16
17th	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	1: 22.738	17th
18th	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 22.832	18th
19th	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	1: 23.290	19th
20th	Luca Badoer	Minardi-Ford	1: 23.765	20th
21st	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	1: 24.260	21st
22nd	Marc Gené	Minardi-Ford	1: 24.914	22nd
107 percent time : 1: 26.185 min (based on the best time of 1: 20.547 min)

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	78	1	1: 49: 31.812	02	1: 22.288
02	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	78	2	+ 30.476	04th	1: 22.572
03	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	78	1	+ 37.483	01	1: 22.259
04th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	78	1	+54.009	06th	1: 22.471
05	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	77	1	+ 1 lap	09	1: 23.473
06th	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	77	1	+ 1 lap	10	1: 23.236
07th	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	77	2	+ 1 lap	07th	1: 23.646
08th	Alessandro Zanardi	Williams-Supertec	76	1	+ 2 rounds	11	1: 23.294
09	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	71	1	DNF	05	1: 23.583
-	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-Supertec	54	1	DNF	16	1: 22.837
-	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	50	2	DNF	14th	1: 23.417
-	Pedro Diniz	Clean Petronas	49	-	DNF	15th	1: 22.637
-	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	40	1	DNF	17th	1: 24.480
-	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	36	-	DNF	03	1: 22.883
-	Mika Salo	BAR-Supertec	36	-	DNF	12	1: 24.787
-	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	36	-	DNF	19th	1: 26.482
-	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Supertec	32	-	DNF	08th	1: 23.537
-	Johnny Herbert	Stewart-Ford	32	-	DNF	13	1: 24.919
-	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	30th	-	DNF	21st	1: 26.914
-	Marc Gené	Minardi-Ford	24	-	DNF	22nd	1: 26.864
-	Luca Badoer	Minardi-Ford	10	-	DNF	20th	1: 28.691
-	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	03	-	DNF	18th	1: 28.848

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  Michael sSchumacher Ferrari 26th 02  Eddie Irvine Ferrari 18th 03  Mika Hakkinen McLaren-Mercedes 14th 04th  Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen-Honda 13 05  Ralf Schumacher Williams-Supertec 7th 05  Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton Playlife 7th 07th  David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 6th 07th  Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 6th 09  Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 3 10  Olivier Panis Cheers Peugeot 1 10  Jean Alesi Clean Petronas 1 10  Pedro de la Rosa Arrows 1

Item driver constructor Points 10  Alexander Wurz Benetton Playlife 1 -  Toranosuke Takagi Arrows 0 -  Ricardo Zonta BAR-Supertec 0 -  Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 0 -  Pedro Diniz Clean Petronas 0 -  Marc Gené Minardi-Ford 0 -  Jarno Trulli Cheers Peugeot 0 -  Alessandro Zanardi Williams-Supertec 0 -  Jacques Villeneuve BAR-Supertec 0 -  Johnny Herbert Stewart-Ford 0 -  Mika Salo BAR-Supertec 0 -  Stéphane Sarrazin Minardi-Ford 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Ferrari 44 02  McLaren-Mercedes 20th 03  Jordan-Mugen-Honda 16 04th  Benetton Playlife 8th 05  Williams-Supertec 7th 05  Stewart-Ford 6th

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

Individual evidence

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