Race · Round 12 of 16 · 29 August 1999

1999 Belgian Grand Prix

David Coulthard won for McLaren from 2nd on the grid at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. 6 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 20 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsStavelot, Belgium
Winner: David CoulthardMcLaren
Pole: Mika Hakkinen
Fastest lap: Mika Hakkinen
Entries: 2216 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4/14	2	44	Finished	10
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4/14	1	44	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	199	3	44	Finished	4
4	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	F399	6	44	Finished	3
5	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	FW21	5	44	Finished	2
6	Damon Hill	Jordan	199	4	44	Finished	1
7	Mika Salo	Ferrari	F399	9	44	Finished	0
8	Alex Zanardi	Williams	FW21	8	44	Finished	0
9	Jean Alesi	Sauber	C18	16	44	Finished	0
10	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	SF3	7	44	Finished	0
11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	B199	13	44	Finished	0
12	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	AP02	12	44	Finished	0
13	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	AP02	17	44	Finished	0
14	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	B199	15	44	Finished	0
15	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	1	11	43	Finished	0
16	Marc Gené	Minardi	M01	21	43	Finished	0
DNF	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	A20	22	35	Transmission	0
DNF	Luca Badoer	Minardi	M01	20	33	Suspension	0
DNF	Ricardo Zonta	British American Racing	1	14	33	Gearbox	0
DNF	Johnny Herbert	Stewart Grand Prix	SF3	10	27	Brakes	0
DNF	Pedro Diniz	Sauber	C18	18	19	Spun off	0
DNF	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	A20	19	0	Clutch	0

F1DB layout spa-francorchamps-2 · 6.94 km · 19 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
David Coulthard	2	1	44
Mika Hakkinen	1	2	44
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	3	3	44
Eddie Irvine	6	4	44
Ralf Schumacher	5	5	44
Damon Hill	4	6	44
Mika Salo	9	7	44
Alex Zanardi	8	8	44
Jean Alesi	16	9	44
Rubens Barrichello	7	10	44
Giancarlo Fisichella	13	11	44
Jarno Trulli	12	12	44
Olivier Panis	17	13	44
Alexander Wurz	15	14	44
Jacques Villeneuve	11	15	43
Marc Gené	21	16	43
Pedro de la Rosa	22	DNF	35
Luca Badoer	20	DNF	33
Ricardo Zonta	14	DNF	33
Johnny Herbert	10	DNF	27
Pedro Diniz	18	DNF	19
Toranosuke Takagi	19	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	1	1:50.329	—	0 m	—
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	2	1:50.484	+0.155	10 m	+0.155
3	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	8	1:51.332	+1.003	64 m	+0.848
4	Damon Hill	Jordan	7	1:51.372	+1.043	66 m	+0.040
5	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	6	1:51.414	+1.085	69 m	+0.042
6	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:51.895	+1.566	99 m	+0.481
7	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	16	1:51.974	+1.645	104 m	+0.079
8	Alex Zanardi	Williams	5	1:52.014	+1.685	107 m	+0.040
9	Mika Salo	Ferrari	3	1:52.124	+1.795	114 m	+0.110
10	Johnny Herbert	Stewart Grand Prix	17	1:52.164	+1.835	116 m	+0.040
11	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	22	1:52.235	+1.906	121 m	+0.071
12	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	19	1:52.644	+2.315	147 m	+0.409
13	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	9	1:52.762	+2.433	154 m	+0.118
14	Ricardo Zonta	British American Racing	23	1:52.840	+2.511	159 m	+0.078
15	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	10	1:52.847	+2.518	160 m	+0.007
16	Jean Alesi	Sauber	11	1:52.921	+2.592	165 m	+0.074
17	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	18	1:53.148	+2.819	179 m	+0.227
18	Pedro Diniz	Sauber	12	1:53.778	+3.449	219 m	+0.630
19	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	15	1:54.099	+3.770	239 m	+0.321
20	Luca Badoer	Minardi	20	1:54.197	+3.868	246 m	+0.098
21	Marc Gené	Minardi	21	1:54.557	+4.228	268 m	+0.360
22	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	14	1:54.579	+4.250	270 m	+0.022

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
David Coulthard	1	44	2	19, 32	29.0, 28.8
Mika Hakkinen	2	44	2	18, 31	29.9, 31.7
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	3	44	2	17, 32	29.5, 28.3
Eddie Irvine	4	44	2	18, 32	28.8, 29.5
Ralf Schumacher	5	44	1	22	33.9
Damon Hill	6	44	2	16, 28	28.7, 29.5
Mika Salo	7	44	2	17, 34	30.0, 28.4
Alex Zanardi	8	44	2	21, 31	30.8, 28.7
Jean Alesi	9	44	2	14, 29	32.3, 29.8
Rubens Barrichello	10	44	2	17, 32	33.0, 29.9
Giancarlo Fisichella	11	44	1	21	32.8
Jarno Trulli	12	44	2	14, 30	29.3, 28.7
Olivier Panis	13	44	2	12, 27	30.3, 29.9
Alexander Wurz	14	44	1	22	32.6
Jacques Villeneuve	15	43	1	26	31.9
Marc Gené	16	43	2	14, 29	30.4, 31.1
Pedro de la Rosa	DNF	35	2	14, 29	30.3, 31.7
Luca Badoer	DNF	33	2	13, 26	32.1, 31.8
Ricardo Zonta	DNF	33	1	21	33.4
Johnny Herbert	DNF	27	1	15	32.3
Pedro Diniz	DNF	19	1	15	31.0
Toranosuke Takagi	DNF	0	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Mika Hakkinen · David Coulthard	1 · 2	2 · 1	18 · 19	Mika Hakkinen	Swapped places
David Coulthard · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	2 · 3	1 · 3	19 · 17	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Mika Hakkinen · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	1 · 3	2 · 3	18 · 17	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Eddie Irvine	3 · 6	3 · 4	17 · 18	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Damon Hill	3 · 4	3 · 6	17 · 16	Damon Hill	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · Eddie Irvine	5 · 6	5 · 4	22 · 18	Eddie Irvine	Swapped places
Eddie Irvine · Rubens Barrichello	6 · 7	4 · 10	18 · 17	Rubens Barrichello	Kept their order
Damon Hill · Ralf Schumacher	4 · 5	6 · 5	16 · 22	Damon Hill	Swapped places
Damon Hill · Mika Salo	4 · 9	6 · 7	16 · 17	Damon Hill	Kept their order
Alex Zanardi · Mika Salo	8 · 9	8 · 7	21 · 17	Mika Salo	Swapped places
Rubens Barrichello · Alex Zanardi	7 · 8	10 · 8	17 · 21	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Alex Zanardi · Jean Alesi	8 · 16	8 · 9	21 · 14	Jean Alesi	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Jean Alesi	7 · 16	10 · 9	17 · 14	Jean Alesi	Swapped places
Alexander Wurz · Jean Alesi	15 · 16	14 · 9	22 · 14	Jean Alesi	Swapped places
Jean Alesi · Olivier Panis	16 · 17	9 · 13	14 · 12	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Giancarlo Fisichella	7 · 13	10 · 11	17 · 21	Rubens Barrichello	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Giancarlo Fisichella	12 · 13	12 · 11	14 · 21	Jarno Trulli	Swapped places
Jacques Villeneuve · Jarno Trulli	11 · 12	15 · 12	26 · 14	Jarno Trulli	Swapped places
Jarno Trulli · Olivier Panis	12 · 17	12 · 13	14 · 12	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Alexander Wurz · Olivier Panis	15 · 17	14 · 13	22 · 12	Olivier Panis	Swapped places
Jacques Villeneuve · Alexander Wurz	11 · 15	15 · 14	26 · 22	Alexander Wurz	Swapped places
Jacques Villeneuve · Marc Gené	11 · 21	15 · 16	26 · 14	Marc Gené	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Warm-up

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	David Coulthard	McLaren	2	1:53.577	—	0 m	—	28
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	1	1:54.021	+0.444	27 m	+0.444	24
3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	9	1:54.066	+0.489	30 m	+0.045	29
4	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	8	1:54.678	+1.101	68 m	+0.612	20
5	Damon Hill	Jordan	7	1:54.892	+1.315	81 m	+0.214	27
6	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	6	1:54.899	+1.322	82 m	+0.007	27
7	Johnny Herbert	Stewart Grand Prix	17	1:54.975	+1.398	86 m	+0.076	25
8	Mika Salo	Ferrari	3	1:55.032	+1.455	90 m	+0.057	36
9	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:55.242	+1.665	103 m	+0.210	27
10	Jean Alesi	Sauber	11	1:55.271	+1.694	104 m	+0.029	30
11	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	16	1:55.484	+1.907	118 m	+0.213	25
12	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	10	1:55.486	+1.909	118 m	+0.002	28
13	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	18	1:55.541	+1.964	121 m	+0.055	34
14	Alex Zanardi	Williams	5	1:55.743	+2.166	134 m	+0.202	31
15	Luca Badoer	Minardi	20	1:56.090	+2.513	155 m	+0.347	31
16	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	15	1:56.263	+2.686	166 m	+0.173	27
17	Pedro Diniz	Sauber	12	1:56.310	+2.733	169 m	+0.047	25
18	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	22	1:56.429	+2.852	176 m	+0.119	18
19	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	14	1:56.749	+3.172	196 m	+0.320	37
20	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	19	1:56.765	+3.188	197 m	+0.016	32
21	Marc Gené	Minardi	21	1:56.855	+3.278	202 m	+0.090	32
22	Ricardo Zonta	British American Racing	23	1:57.717	+4.140	255 m	+0.862	22

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	8	1:51.047	—	0 m	—	23
2	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	6	1:51.417	+0.370	23 m	+0.370	25
3	David Coulthard	McLaren	2	1:51.729	+0.682	43 m	+0.312	23
4	Damon Hill	Jordan	7	1:51.833	+0.786	50 m	+0.104	21
5	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	22	1:52.111	+1.064	67 m	+0.278	29
6	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:52.160	+1.113	70 m	+0.049	21
7	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	1	1:52.259	+1.212	76 m	+0.099	20
8	Mika Salo	Ferrari	3	1:52.528	+1.481	93 m	+0.269	22
9	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	16	1:52.769	+1.722	109 m	+0.241	22
10	Johnny Herbert	Stewart Grand Prix	17	1:52.849	+1.802	114 m	+0.080	23
11	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	19	1:53.061	+2.014	127 m	+0.212	20
12	Alex Zanardi	Williams	5	1:53.301	+2.254	142 m	+0.240	20
13	Jean Alesi	Sauber	11	1:53.317	+2.270	143 m	+0.016	20
14	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	10	1:53.325	+2.278	144 m	+0.008	18
15	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	9	1:53.463	+2.416	152 m	+0.138	16
16	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	18	1:53.595	+2.548	161 m	+0.132	16
17	Ricardo Zonta	British American Racing	23	1:53.926	+2.879	182 m	+0.331	15
18	Pedro Diniz	Sauber	12	1:54.112	+3.065	193 m	+0.186	26
19	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	15	1:54.258	+3.211	203 m	+0.146	23
20	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	14	1:54.592	+3.545	224 m	+0.334	25
21	Luca Badoer	Minardi	20	1:54.768	+3.721	235 m	+0.176	22
22	Marc Gené	Minardi	21	1:54.860	+3.813	240 m	+0.092	26

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	1	1:54.019	—	0 m	—	10
2	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	6	1:54.255	+0.236	14 m	+0.236	12
3	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	18	1:54.757	+0.738	45 m	+0.502	11
4	Jean Alesi	Sauber	11	1:54.799	+0.780	48 m	+0.042	12
5	Damon Hill	Jordan	7	1:54.888	+0.869	53 m	+0.089	10
6	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:54.906	+0.887	54 m	+0.018	12
7	David Coulthard	McLaren	2	1:54.923	+0.904	56 m	+0.017	11
8	Johnny Herbert	Stewart Grand Prix	17	1:55.329	+1.310	80 m	+0.406	11
9	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	10	1:55.363	+1.344	83 m	+0.034	13
10	Alex Zanardi	Williams	5	1:55.366	+1.347	83 m	+0.003	10
11	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	19	1:55.394	+1.375	84 m	+0.028	13
12	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	8	1:55.409	+1.390	85 m	+0.015	13
13	Mika Salo	Ferrari	3	1:55.434	+1.415	87 m	+0.025	14
14	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	16	1:55.485	+1.466	90 m	+0.051	11
15	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	22	1:55.738	+1.719	106 m	+0.253	8
16	Marc Gené	Minardi	21	1:55.843	+1.824	112 m	+0.105	11
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	9	1:55.886	+1.867	115 m	+0.043	14
18	Pedro Diniz	Sauber	12	1:56.990	+2.971	183 m	+1.104	12
19	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	15	1:57.555	+3.536	217 m	+0.565	10
20	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	14	1:57.873	+3.854	237 m	+0.318	10
21	Luca Badoer	Minardi	20	1:58.213	+4.194	258 m	+0.340	9
22	Ricardo Zonta	British American Racing	23	1:58.442	+4.423	272 m	+0.229	8

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

McLaren MP4/14
Mika Hakkinen 1999 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Jordan 199
Heinz-Harald Frentzen 1999 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Ferrari F399
Eddie Irvine 1999 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Sauber C18
Jean Alesi 1999 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Stewart SF3
Rubens Barrichello 1999 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

5 more photographs

Benetton B199
Giancarlo Fisichella 1999 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Prost AP02
Jarno Trulli 1999 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

BAR 01
Jacques Villeneuve 1999 Canada · Paul Lannuier from Sussex, NJ, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Where this comes from

Round: 12 of 1999
Grand Prix: Belgian Grand Prix
Dates: 29 Aug 1999
Layout raced: Modern circuit · 7.004 km · 19 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-Mercedes
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.