1999 Canadian Grand Prix

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Canada  1999 Canadian Grand Prix
Race details
Race 6 of 16 in the 1999 Formula One season
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (last modified in 1996)
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (last modified in 1996)
Date June 13, 1999
Official name XXXVII Grand Prix Air Canada
Location Montreal, Canada
Course Temporary street circuit
Course length 4.421 km (2.747 mi)
Distance 69 laps, 305.049 km (189.549 mi)
Weather Hot with temperatures approaching 31 °C (88 °F); wind speeds up to 5.1 kilometres per hour (3.2 mph)[1]
Pole position
Driver Ferrari
Time 1:19.298
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Eddie Irvine Ferrari
Time 1:20.382 on lap 62
Podium
First McLaren-Mercedes
Second Benetton-Playlife
Third Ferrari

The 1999 Canadian Grand Prix[2] was a Formula One race held on June 13, 1999 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada. It was the sixth race of the 1999 Formula One season. The race was notable for the four crashes that occurred in turn 13 and for the number of times the safety car was deployed. Turn 13, the final chicane, had four separate crashes in which a driver either went wide or spun into the wall. Three of the drivers who crashed there had previously won the Driver's Championship, leading to the wall becoming known as the "Wall of Champions". The safety car was deployed four times in the race, a record at the time, and was the first F1 race to finish behind the safety car following Heinz-Harald Frentzen's massive crash with four laps to go.[3]

Report

Race

The race was won by Mika Häkkinen for McLaren.

The front runners got off the line cleanly, with Michael Schumacher maintaining first place after starting on pole for the first time in 1999. Jarno Trulli, starting ninth, went off the track trying to pass Heinz-Harald Frentzen up the inside into turn one. Trulli spun across turn one, collecting Jean Alesi and Rubens Barrichello. Trulli and Alesi retired, and the safety car was deployed. Alexander Wurz also retired with transmission problems.[4]

Eddie Irvine posted his only career fastest lap in this race.

Ricardo Zonta retired on lap 3 after spinning into the wall at turn 13. He stopped just off the track, missing his right rear wheel, which brought the safety car out again. Zonta was the first of four drivers to hit the “Wall of Champions” in this race. On lap 15, Damon Hill became the second driver to hit the turn 13 wall. Hill was able to pull off the track in a safe location, and the safety car was not deployed. Michael Schumacher hit the wall on lap 30, giving the lead to Mika Häkkinen. The fourth and final driver to hit to wall was Jacques Villeneuve on lap 35, bringing the safety car out for the third time. Hill, Schumacher, and Villeneuve were three of the four Formula 1 Driver’s Champions competing in the race.[5]

On the lap 41 restart following Villeneuve’s crash, David Coulthard tried to go around the outside of Eddie Irvine into turn one, then the inside on turn two. They touched, and both spun off. Both were able to rejoin, though Coulthard had to pit for a new nose. The fourth and final safety car of race came out on lap 66 after Heinz-Harald Frentzen, running in second place, suffered a brake failure and had a massive crash. He was uninjured. The safety car pulled in at the end of the final lap, and Mika Häkkinen won the race.[4] Eddie Irvine scored his first fastest lap[6] and finished third behind Giancarlo Fisichella.

Classification

Jacques Villeneuve (BAR) (top), Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) (center), and Damon Hill (Jordan) (bottom) all became victims of the outside wall at the exit of the final chicane. Because all three of them were former World Champions, their collisions with that wall (which all happened on separate occasions) resulted in it being nicknamed the "Wall of Champions".

Qualifying

Pos No Driver Constructor Lap Gap
1 3 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:19.298
2 1 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1:19.327 +0.029
3 4 United Kingdom Eddie Irvine Ferrari 1:19.440 +0.142
4 2 United Kingdom David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:19.729 +0.431
5 16 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 1:19.930 +0.632
6 8 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen-Honda 1:20.158 +0.860
7 9 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Playlife 1:20.378 +1.080
8 11 France Jean Alesi Sauber-Petronas 1:20.459 +1.161
9 19 Italy Jarno Trulli Prost-Peugeot 1:20.459 +1.259
10 17 United Kingdom Johnny Herbert Stewart-Ford 1:20.829 +1.531
11 10 Austria Alexander Wurz Benetton-Playlife 1:21.000 +1.702
12 5 Italy Alessandro Zanardi Williams-Supertec 1:21.076 +1.778
13 6 Germany Ralf Schumacher Williams-Supertec 1:21.081 +1.783
14 7 United Kingdom Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 1:21.094 +1.796
15 18 France Olivier Panis Prost-Peugeot 1:21.252 +1.954
16 22 Canada Jacques Villeneuve BAR-Supertec 1:21.302 +2.004
17 23 Brazil Ricardo Zonta BAR-Supertec 1:21.467 +2.169
18 12 Brazil Pedro Diniz Sauber-Petronas 1:21.571 +2.273
19 15 Japan Toranosuke Takagi Arrows 1:21.693 +2.395
20 14 Spain Pedro de la Rosa Arrows 1:22.613 +3.315
21 20 Italy Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 1:22.808 +3.510
22 21 Spain Marc Gené Minardi-Ford 1:23.387 +4.089
Source:[7]

Race

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 69 1:41:35.727 2 10
2 9 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Playlife 69 +0.782 7 6
3 4 United Kingdom Eddie Irvine Ferrari 69 +1.797 3 4
4 6 Germany Ralf Schumacher Williams-Supertec 69 +2.392 13 3
5 17 United Kingdom Johnny Herbert Stewart-Ford 69 +2.805 10 2
6 12 Brazil Pedro Diniz Sauber-Petronas 69 +3.711 18 1
7 2 United Kingdom David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 69 +5.004 4  
8 21 Spain Marc Gené Minardi-Ford 68 +1 Lap 22  
9 18 France Olivier Panis Prost-Peugeot 68 +1 Lap 15  
10 20 Italy Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 67 +2 Laps 21  
11 8 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen-Honda 65 Brakes 6  
Ret 5 Italy Alessandro Zanardi Williams-Supertec 50 Brakes 12  
Ret 15 Japan Toranosuke Takagi Arrows 41 Transmission 19  
Ret 22 Canada Jacques Villeneuve BAR-Supertec 34 Spun off 16  
Ret 3 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari 29 Spun off 1  
Ret 14 Spain Pedro de la Rosa Arrows 22 Transmission 20  
Ret 7 United Kingdom Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 14 Spun off 14  
Ret 16 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 14 Steering 5  
Ret 23 Brazil Ricardo Zonta BAR-Supertec 2 Spun off 17  
Ret 11 France Jean Alesi Sauber-Petronas 0 Collision 8  
Ret 19 Italy Jarno Trulli Prost-Peugeot 0 Collision 9  
Ret 10 Austria Alexander Wurz Benetton-Playlife 0 Transmission 11  
Sources:[2][8]

Notes

Championship standings after the race

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

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