Jordan 199
 Frentzen at the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix |
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| Constructor: |
 Jordan
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| Designer: |
Mike Gascoyne (Technical Director) Tim Holloway (Designer) John Iley (Aerodynamics) |
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| Predecessor: | Jordan 198 | ||||||||
| Successor: | Jordan EJ10 | ||||||||
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| Chassis: | Pressed composite monocoque made of CFRP | ||||||||
| Engine: | Mugen-Honda MF-301HD 2,999 cm³, 72 ° V10 naturally aspirated engine | ||||||||
| Front suspension: | Double wishbone axle with internal springs and shock absorbers , operated via push rods | ||||||||
| Rear suspension: | Double wishbone axle with internal springs and shock absorbers , operated via push rods | ||||||||
| Length: | 4550 mm | ||||||||
| Width: | 1800 mm | ||||||||
| Height: | 950 mm | ||||||||
| Wheelbase: | 3050 mm | ||||||||
| Weight: | 600 kg (including driver) | ||||||||
| Tires: | Bridgestone | ||||||||
| Petrol: | Eleven | ||||||||
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| Driver: | 7. Damon Hill 8. Heinz-Harald Frentzen 
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| First start: | 1999 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1999 Japanese Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| World Cup points: | 61 | ||||||||
| Podiums: | 6th | ||||||||
| Leadership laps: | 65 over 324 km | ||||||||
The Jordan 199 was the Formula 1 - racing cars of Jordan Mugen-Honda for the 1999 season . It was an evolutionary model of last year's Jordan 198 and also the eighth vehicle designed by Jordan. Driven by Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Damon Hill , the car team boss Eddie Jordan achieved the best result in team history. Frentzen won two races and had a realistic chance of winning the championship for a long time. A few days before the start of the season, Jean Alesi said that Jordan with the 199 would be the “surprise of the season” in his eyes.
Technology and development
The technical director of vehicle development was Mike Gascoyne , who did much of the development himself. He was supported by designer Tim Holloway and aerodynamicist John Iley . The 199 was derived from the previous year's model 198 and compared to the latter, only slightly aerodynamically revised in terms of transmission, front wing, side pods and some smaller body parts. After Goodyear's final withdrawal from Formula 1, Jordan was now using Bridgestone tires like most teams in 1998 . A new gasoline supplier was also determined. Repsol still supplied fuel in 1998 , but Elf took over this task for the new season . The brakes were purchased from Brembo and the suspension from Penske .
As in the previous year, Jordan used an electro-hydraulic six-speed transmission with an additional reverse gear developed in-house, as well as a Mugen Honda engine . With the MF-301HD, Mugan-Honda provided a new generation of the MF-301HC, which was already used in the previous year. It developed up to 790 hp and reached up to 16,500 rpm. The MF-301HE model was delivered from the Belgian Grand Prix. It developed over 800 hp and had a qualification mode in which up to 18,000 rpm were possible and a speed of up to 350 km / h could be achieved. For the penultimate race of the season, the Malaysian Grand Prix, Mugen-Honda increased the engine output by an additional 8 hp. This model was only used for Heinz-Harald Frentzen. All three models of the MF-301 used were naturally aspirated V10 engines with a cylinder bank angle of 72 °. Each cylinder had four valves. The total weight of the unit including additional parts was 127 kg. The fuel tank held about 150 liters of liquid.
Racing history
presentation
The vehicle was unveiled on February 1, 1999 at the Palladium Theater in London . The presentation was preceded by the appearance of a Pakistani magician. In particular, the question arose as to whether Honda intended to return to Formula 1 with a factory team and whether to buy Eddie Jordan's team. Jordan and the Honda representatives who had traveled tried to avoid these questions. Instead, Jordan expressed himself very confident that he would be able to achieve third place in the constructors' championship in 1999 and referred several times to the driver duo Frentzen and Hill. Frentzen was positive about the atmosphere in the team and was not concerned about the lack of vehicle tests in January. Hill particularly emphasized the work of the mechanics in the team.
Season course
The season opener in Australia was very positive. Both drivers were able to keep in touch with the leaders in qualifying and placed in the top ten. Frentzen reached starting position five, Hill starting position ninth. Frentzen won a place at the start of the race, while Hill was also able to work his way forward, but already retired in the third corner after a collision with Jarno Trulli. The two leading McLaren vehicles with Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard also retired early - Eddie Irvine took the lead ahead of Frentzen. Irvine finally won ahead of Frentzen and Ralf Schumacher - Jordan had already achieved second place in the first race of the season. At the following race in Brazil, Frentzen finished third again on a podium; Hill fell out. Jordan and Frentzen took second place in the drivers 'and constructors' championships, tied with Häkkinen and McLaren.
In San Marino, the third podium in a row seemed possible, but Frentzen was eliminated in fourth place in the 46th lap. Hill was behind him at this point and was able to move up to third place at times, but was overtaken by Rubens Barrichello and finished the race in fourth place. In Monaco , the pattern seemed to continue - Hill retired early in the race, while Frentzen seemed likely to finish in the top three. He finished the race in fourth place and also took fourth position in the world championship. In Spain, Jordan didn't win any points for the first time of the season. Frentzen retired on lap 36 with differential damage; Hill reached only seventh place after a hard fight. This bad luck continued at the Canadian Grand Prix. First Hill had an accident during the race in the last corner of lap 14 due to a collision with the track barrier. Since Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve , who were also World Champions alongside Hill, also retired in the same race , this boundary wall was given the ironic name "Wall of Champions". In contrast, luck seemed to have returned for Frentzen for the time being - he drove up to second place, but four laps before the end of the race the car's brakes failed and Frentzen had an accident in the fourth corner. Since the safety car was used as a result of the accident, the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix was the first race to be finished behind the safety car.
The seventh Grand Prix in France in 1999 led Frentzen to his second great success. The changeable qualifying resulted in a rather unusual starting line-up: Rubens Barrichello was on pole position with the Stewart Grand Prix car, followed by Jean Alesi in the Sauber and Olivier Panis in the Prost Grand Prix . Frentzen started from fifth place. When a downpour set in during the race, Jean Alesi spun off the track in second place behind the safety car. For a long time Rubens Barrichello looked like the sure winner, but Michael Schumacher fought his way up to first place, but had to give up with transmission problems. Frentzen stayed in the background and ultimately benefited from the tactics of the drivers Häkkinen and Barrichello, who each had to stop for fuel. Frentzen was able to continue without a pit stop and finally won the race ahead of Häkkinen and Barrichello. Hill was out again.
In the UK, Jordan qualified for row three with Frentzen ahead of Hill. Both drivers were able to win one place in the race - Frentzen finished fourth, Hill fifth. Frentzen also came fourth in Austria. Hill crossed the finish line in ninth place outside of the points. Frentzen started the German Grand Prix from the front row, but fell back to fourth place over the course of the race. In the end, 3rd place was enough for a podium place; Hill in tenth was again without points. At the Hungaroring in Hungary , Frentzen again achieved fourth place. Hill finished sixth for the first time since the British Grand Prix. The Belgian Grand Prix again ended in third place for Frentzen and Hill also scored points in sixth.
Another great moment for the Jordan 199 occurred at the Italian Grand Prix. Having started from second place behind Häkkinen, Frentzen benefited from Häkkinen's self-inflicted failure and won his second race of the season. As a result, he again took third place in the championship. At the next race at the Nürburgring, the course seemed set for another victory. This time Frentzen drove into pole position and was in the lead for a long time during the race until electronic problems on lap 33 thwarted his hopes for the world title. In the follow-up race in Malaysia, Frentzen had a theoretical chance of winning the title twelve points behind Häkkinen, but he qualified unusually poorly in 14th place. In the race he was able to fight his way up to sixth place, but the world championship was finally lost. The season finale in Japan, where Häkkinen won his second world championship title after a perfect start, Frentzen finished in fourth place. Hill, who wanted to convince in his last race, did not get past eleventh place.
Jordan finished the season with the 199 with 61 points in third place and thus achieved the best result in team history. For the 2000 season, the successor model, the Jordan EJ10, was presented, which no longer had anything in common with the 199 or 198. However, this new car was only moderately successful and the performance was not comparable to that of the 199 - Jordan only achieved sixth place in the constructors' championship in 2000 with Frentzen and Prost's Jarno Trulli.
Painting and sponsorship
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The basic color of the car was yellow; The front and rear wings, the tip of the air scoop and the side pods were black. The main sponsor remained the tobacco brand Benson & Hedges , which advertised on both wings, the nose, the side pods and on the driver's helmets. Other sponsors were the credit card company Mastercard , the German mail order company Pearl , Zepter International , engine supplier Mugen-Honda and European Aviation , Paul Stoddart's airline company .
In countries where advertising for tobacco products was not allowed, the lettering Benson & Hedges was replaced by "Buzzin Hornets" (English for "Humming Hornets"). This was both an allusion to the yellow and black paintwork of the car, which was reminiscent of the yellow and black striped body of hornets, and to the stylized drawing of a hornet that adorned the sides of the vehicle nose.
driver
For the 1999 season, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Ralf Schumacher swapped places. Frentzen went from Williams to Jordan, Schumacher from Jordan to Williams. Like Schumacher, Frentzen was second driver, while Damon Hill remained in the team and took on the role of first driver. Hill drove with the start number 7, Frentzen with the 8th. The Czech Tomáš Enge and occasionally the Japanese Shinji Nakano were signed up as test drivers . While Frentzen drove for a long time with a prospect of winning the title, Hill ended the season disappointingly.
Further use of the vehicles
On May 12, 2018, a Jordan 199 with chassis number 003 was auctioned for 241,250 euros on the Sotheby’s auction platform in Monaco . With this car, Heinz-Harald Frentzen finished second in the races in Australia and third in Brazil , after which it was no longer used for other races.
Others
At the beginning of the season, Paul Stoddart and Eddie Jordan negotiated a 20 percent stake from Stoddart. It was offered $ 20 million for it, but after the season for Jordan started better than planned, Eddie Jordan asked for more money for the respective shares that Paul Stoddart did not want to raise.
Results
| driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | Points | rank |
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| Formula 1 World Championship 1999 |
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D. Hill
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7th | DNF | DNF | 4th | DNF | 7th | DNF | DNF | 5 | 8th | DNF | 6th | 6th | 10 | DNF | DNF | DNF | ||
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8th | 2 | 3 | DNF | 4th | DNF | 11 | 1 | 4th | 4th | 3 | 4th | 3 | 1 | DNF | 6th | 4th | ||
| Legend | ||
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Web links
- Vehicle profile at chicanef1.com
- Vehicle profile fedef1.com
- Vehicle profile at StatsF1.com
- Vehicle profile at traumautoarchiv.de
- motorsport-total.com Database information on Jordan 199
- carmrades-blog.com Buzzing Hornets - 1999 Jordan 199 Mugen Honda
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrea Cremonesi, Pino Allievi: A World Series, seven stories , in "La Gazzetta dello sport", March 4, 1999, page 21 (Italian).
- ↑ statsf1.com: Jordan 199. Stats F1, January 1, 2000, accessed on March 27, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b grandprix.com: The new Jordan 199th Grand Prix, February 8, 1999, accessed April 1, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c fedef1.com: Jordan Technical info. Fede F1, January 1, 2000, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ↑ traumautoarchiv.de: Jordan-Mugen-Honda 199 technical data. Traumauto Archiv, January 1, 2000, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ↑ formula1techandart.com: Mugen-Honda MF301HD. Formula 1 technology and art, October 30, 2013, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Giancarlo Gavalotti, La Graffia Jordan Hill con e Frentzen , in "La Gazzetta dello Sport", February 2, 1999, 24 (Italian)
- ↑ rmsothebys.com: 1999 Jordan 199 Formula 1. Sotheby's, May 12, 2018, accessed on March 27, 2020 (English).
- ↑ unracedf1.com: Paul Stoddart attempts to enter the F1 before Minardi. Unraced F1, July 31, 2017, accessed March 31, 2020 .
Racing car of the Formula 1 World Championship 1999
