1999 Spanish Grand Prix

 1999 Spanish Grand Prix

Racing data
5th of 16 races in the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	XLI Gran Premio Marlboro de España
Date:	May 30, 1999
Place:	Montmeló
Course:	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
Length:	307.32 km in 65 laps of 4.728 km
Weather:	sunny and warm
Spectator:	~ 81,000
Pole position
Driver:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Time:	1: 22.088 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari
Time:	1: 24.982 min (lap 29)
Podium
First:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Second:	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes
Third:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari

The 1999 Spanish Grand Prix (officially XLI Gran Premio Marlboro de España ) took place on May 30th at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló and was the fifth race of the 1999 Formula 1 World Championship . Mika Häkkinen took first place ahead of David Coulthard and Michael Schumacher .

report

training

Friday training

Eddie Irvine set the fastest time with a time of 1: 23.577 ahead of Frentzen, Michael Schumacher and Häkkinen. David Coulthard only reached seventh place, seven tenths behind. The slowest driver, Marc Gené, was around four seconds behind the best time.

Saturday training

This time Coulthard was able to secure the fastest training time with 1: 22.138, followed by Michael Schumacher, Häkkinen and Frentzen. After first place the day before, Edde Irvine only achieved 17th place, directly behind Wurz. The slowest driver, Luca Badoer, was around four and a half seconds behind the best time.

Qualifying

For the fifth time in a row, Häkkinen took pole position with a time of 1: 22.088. Behind them are Irvine, Coulthard, Michael Schumacher, Jean Alesi and in sixth place Villeneuve. The slowest driver, Luca Badoer, was around four seconds behind the best time and two seconds before the 107 percent time limit.

Warm-up

Häkkinen set the fastest time with 1: 24.031, ahead of Coulthard, Michael Schumacher, Alesi and Irvine. The slowest driver, Takagi, was around four seconds behind the best time.

run

At the start, Panis and Gené, who also comes from Catalonia , stopped. Before the start lights went out, Coulthard's car rolled very little, but the early start sensors did not register an illegal early start. Häkkinen was able to maintain the lead after the race was released, followed by Coulthard, Villeneuve who overtook both Ferraris in the first corner, Michael Schumacher, Irvine and Trulli. Irvine lost two places due to a bad start. After the first lap, Häkkinen continues, the remaining five positions have not changed. Panis was able to resume the race one lap behind, but came straight onto the track in midfield. Häkkinen is now beginning to extend the lead and after five laps is already ten seconds ahead of fourth-placed Michael Schumacher, who in turn is held up by Villeneuve.

De la Rosa opened the pit stop series on lap 17, five laps later the top team Irvine pits; His official standing time was 7.8 seconds. Villeneuve is now doing everything possible to stay ahead of Michael Schumacher and regularly braked himself in corners one and five. On lap 23 the leader Häkkinen goes into the pit lane, his lead over Michael Schumacher is almost 29 seconds. After a standing time of 7.7 seconds, Häkkinen comes back on the field in second behind Coulthard. One lap later, Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher followed with their pit stops, but the Ferrari team worked faster and was able to send Michael Schumacher back onto the field before Villeneuve. Both come in sixth and eighth, Irvine was able to slip between the two and get back into the race. As the last of the top teams, Coulthard came into the pits as the leader on lap 26, but he misjudged himself when braking for the parking space and shot out by almost a meter. As a result, his stop time is around 12.8 seconds, but he comes back on the field before Michael Schumacher.

Villeneuve wanted to make his second stop on lap 40. Villeneuve wanted to have the top wing of the rear spoiler removed in order to have more top speed on the straights, but that could not be reduced. The mechanics then tore off the wing with force, and after standing for 28.7 seconds Villeneuve could have left again. However, the gearbox could not shift into gear and the Canadian finally had to give up the race.

In the last six laps Coulthard was held up for a long time by vehicles that had to be lapped, including Hill, Barrichello and Trulli, whereupon Michael Schumacher was able to rejoin and make the final exciting. In the end, Häkkinen won the Spanish Grand Prix ahead of Coulthard and Michael Schumacher. The winner's trophy for Mika Häkkinen was presented by King Juan Carlos I of Spain . The trophy for the victorious designer McLaren was presented by the President of the International Olympic Committee , Juan Antonio Samaranch , to the Technical Director of McLaren, Adrian Newey .

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: 22.088	01
02	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	1: 22.219	02
03	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 22.244	03
04th	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	1: 22.277	04th
05	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	1: 22.388	05
06th	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Supertec	1: 22.703	06th
07th	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	1: 22.920	07th
08th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 22.938	08th
09	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	1: 23.194	09
10	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-Supertec	1: 23.303	10
11	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 23.317	11
12	Pedro Diniz	Clean Petronas	1: 23.331	12
13	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	1: 23.333	13
14th	Johnny Herbert	Stewart-Ford	1: 23.505	14th
15th	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	1: 23.559	15th
16	Mika Salo	BAR-Supertec	1: 23.683	16
17th	Alessandro Zanardi	Williams-Supertec	1: 23.703	17th
18th	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	1: 23.824	18th
19th	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	1: 24.619	19th
20th	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	1: 25.280	20th
21st	Marc Gené	Minardi-Ford	1: 25.672	21st
22nd	Luca Badoer	Minardi-Ford	1: 25.833	22nd
107 percent time : 1: 27.834 min (based on the best time of 1: 22.088 min)

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	65	2	1: 34: 13.665	01	1: 25.209
02	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	65	2	+ 6.238	03	1: 25.487
03	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	65	2	+ 10.845	04th	1: 24.982
04th	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	65	2	+ 30.182	02	1: 25.343
05	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-Supertec	65	2	+1: 27.208	10	1: 26.520
06th	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	64	2	+ 1 lap	09	1: 26.505
07th	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	64	2	+ 1 lap	11	1: 26.348
08th	Mika Salo	BAR-Supertec	64	2	+ 1 lap	16	1: 27.004
09	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	64	3	+ 1 lap	13	1: 27.098
10	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	64	3	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 27.029
11	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	63	3	+ 2 rounds	19th	1: 27.409
12	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	62	2	+ 3 rounds	20th	1: 29.184
-	Luca Badoer	Minardi-Ford	50	2	DNF	22nd	1: 29.632
-	Jacques Villeneuve	BAR-Supertec	40	2	DNF	06th	1: 26.675
-	Pedro Diniz	Clean Petronas	40	1	DNF	12	1: 26.315
-	Johnny Herbert	Stewart-Ford	40	1	DNF	14th	1: 27.442
-	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	35	1	DNF	08th	1: 26.894
-	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	27	1	DNF	05	1: 26.542
-	Alessandro Zanardi	Williams-Supertec	24	-	DNF	17th	1: 27.248
-	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	24	-	DNF	15th	1: 27.175
-	Marc Gené	Minardi-Ford	00	-	DNF	21st	-
-	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	64	2	DSQ (+ 1 lap)	07th	1: 26.006

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 30th 02  Mika Hakkinen McLaren-Mercedes 24 03  Eddie Irvine Ferrari 21st 04th  Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen-Honda 13 05  David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 12 06th  Ralf Schumacher Williams-Supertec 9 07th  Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton Playlife 7th 08th  Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 6th 09  Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 3 10  Jarno Trulli Cheers Peugeot 1 10  Olivier Panis Cheers Peugeot 1 10  Jean Alesi Clean Petronas 1

Item driver constructor Points 10  Pedro de la Rosa Arrows 1 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 -  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 51 02  McLaren-Mercedes 36 03  Jordan-Mugen-Honda 16 04th  Williams-Supertec 9 05  Benetton Playlife 8th 06th  Stewart-Ford 6th

Item constructor Points 07th  Cheers Peugeot 2 08th  Clean Petronas 1 08th  Arrows 1 -  BAR-Supertec 0 -  Minardi-Ford 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Overview Spain 1999 ( Memento from November 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Friday training Spain 1999 ( Memento from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Spain 1999
4. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Spain 1999
5. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Spain 1999
6. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Spain 1999
7. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Race Spain 1999 ( Memento from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Race Spain 1999