1999 Formula One World Championship

"F1 1999" redirects here. For the video game based on the 1999 Formula One season, see Formula One 99.

Defending world champion Mika Häkkinen (pictured in 2009) won his second and final title with McLaren.
Eddie Irvine finished runner-up for Ferrari by just two points in his last year with the team.
Heinz-Harald Frentzen (pictured in 2006) finished the season third for Jordan.
Ferrari won the Constructors' Championship.
McLaren Mercedes placed second in the Constructors' Championship.
Jordan Mugen-Honda placed third in the Constructors' Championship.

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. His team McLaren just missed out: it was Ferrari that clinched the World Constructors' Championship by a margin of four points. It would be the last Drivers' title for a McLaren driver until Lewis Hamilton in 2008. It was Ferrari's first Constructors' title since 1983, but would also mark the first of six successive titles up to 2004. Away from the frontrunners, the season proved to be a disastrous one for the new British American Racing (BAR) team with their star driver and 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve, who despite high pre-season expectations failed to score a single point during the season, being the only one of the eleven teams entered not to score.

It was also the final season for 1996 world champion Damon Hill.

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