1999 Formula One World Championship

Defending world champion Mika Häkkinen (pictured in 1998) won his second and final title with McLaren.
Eddie Irvine finished runner-up for Ferrari by two points in his last year with the team.
Heinz-Harald Frentzen (pictured in 2006) finished the season third for Jordan.

The 1999 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 53rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1999 Formula One World Championship for Drivers and the 1999 Formula One World Championship for Constructors, which were contested concurrently over a sixteen-race series that commenced on 7 March and ended on 31 October.

Defending champion Mika Häkkinen was again awarded the World Drivers' Championship.[1] His team McLaren just missed out: it was Ferrari that clinched the World Constructors' Championship by a margin of four points.[2] It would be the last Drivers' title for a McLaren driver until 2008. It was Ferrari's first Constructors' title since 1983, but would also mark the first of six successive titles up to 2004.

It was the final season for 1996 world champion Damon Hill. It was also the last Drivers' Championship for McLaren until Lewis Hamilton in 2008.

  1. ^ "1999 Driver Standings". Formula1.com. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  2. ^ "1999 Constructor Standings". Formula1.com. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

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