Race · Round 16 of 16 · 31 October 1999

1999 Japanese Grand Prix

Mika Hakkinen won for McLaren from 2nd on the grid at Suzuka Circuit. 8 of the starters were not classified. This round settled the drivers' title for Mika Hakkinen. Eddie Irvine had led the championship going into it.

Dry, with cloud · High of 19 °C, no rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Suzuka CircuitSuzuka, Japan
Winner: Mika HakkinenMcLaren
Pole: Michael Schumacher
Fastest lap: Michael Schumacher
Entries: 2214 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4/14	2	53	Finished	10
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F399	1	53	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	F399	5	53	Finished	4
4	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	199	4	53	Finished	3
5	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	FW21	9	53	Finished	2
6	Jean Alesi	Sauber	C18	10	52	Finished	1
7	Johnny Herbert	Stewart Grand Prix	SF3	8	52	Finished	0
8	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	SF3	13	52	Finished	0
9	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	1	11	52	Finished	0
10	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	B199	15	52	Finished	0
11	Pedro Diniz	Sauber	C18	17	52	Finished	0
12	Ricardo Zonta	British American Racing	1	18	52	Finished	0
13	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	A20	21	51	Finished	0
14	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	B199	14	47	Engine	0
DNF	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	A20	19	43	Gearbox	0
DNF	Luca Badoer	Minardi	M01	22	43	Engine	0
DNF	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4/14	3	39	Hydraulics	0
DNF	Marc Gené	Minardi	M01	20	31	Gearbox	0
DNF	Damon Hill	Jordan	199	12	21	Withdrew	0
DNF	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	AP02	6	19	Alternator	0
DNF	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	AP02	7	3	Engine	0
DNF	Alex Zanardi	Williams	FW21	16	0	Electrical	0

F1DB layout suzuka-1 · 5.86 km · 18 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
Mika Hakkinen	2	1	53
Michael Schumacher	1	2	53
Eddie Irvine	5	3	53
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	4	4	53
Ralf Schumacher	9	5	53
Jean Alesi	10	6	52
Johnny Herbert	8	7	52
Rubens Barrichello	13	8	52
Jacques Villeneuve	11	9	52
Alexander Wurz	15	10	52
Pedro Diniz	17	11	52
Ricardo Zonta	18	12	52
Pedro de la Rosa	21	13	51
Giancarlo Fisichella	14	14	47
Toranosuke Takagi	19	DNF	43
Luca Badoer	22	DNF	43
David Coulthard	3	DNF	39
Marc Gené	20	DNF	31
Damon Hill	12	DNF	21
Olivier Panis	6	DNF	19
Jarno Trulli	7	DNF	3
Alex Zanardi	16	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:37.470	—	0 m	—
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	1	1:37.820	+0.350	21 m	+0.350
3	David Coulthard	McLaren	2	1:38.239	+0.769	46 m	+0.419
4	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	8	1:38.696	+1.226	74 m	+0.457
5	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:38.975	+1.505	90 m	+0.279
6	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	18	1:39.623	+2.153	129 m	+0.648
7	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	19	1:39.644	+2.174	131 m	+0.021
8	Johnny Herbert	Stewart Grand Prix	17	1:39.706	+2.236	134 m	+0.062
9	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	6	1:39.717	+2.247	135 m	+0.011
10	Jean Alesi	Sauber	11	1:39.721	+2.251	135 m	+0.004
11	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	22	1:39.732	+2.262	136 m	+0.011
12	Damon Hill	Jordan	7	1:40.140	+2.670	161 m	+0.408
13	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	16	1:40.140	+2.670	161 m	+0.000
14	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	9	1:40.261	+2.791	168 m	+0.121
15	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	10	1:40.303	+2.833	170 m	+0.042
16	Alex Zanardi	Williams	5	1:40.403	+2.933	176 m	+0.100
17	Pedro Diniz	Sauber	12	1:40.740	+3.270	197 m	+0.337
18	Ricardo Zonta	British American Racing	23	1:40.861	+3.391	204 m	+0.121
19	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	15	1:41.067	+3.597	216 m	+0.206
20	Marc Gené	Minardi	21	1:41.529	+4.059	244 m	+0.462
21	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	14	1:41.708	+4.238	255 m	+0.179
22	Luca Badoer	Minardi	20	1:42.515	+5.045	303 m	+0.807

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)
Mika Hakkinen	1	53	2	19, 38	32.5, 31.0
Michael Schumacher	2	53	2	22, 37	29.8, 30.7
Eddie Irvine	3	53	2	23, 32	30.7, 29.8
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	4	53	2	19, 31	30.7, 30.4
Ralf Schumacher	5	53	2	20, 32	31.0, 32.1
Jean Alesi	6	52	2	19, 36	33.3, 32.2
Johnny Herbert	7	52	2	17, 36	33.6, 36.5
Rubens Barrichello	8	52	2	20, 33	31.2, 32.7
Jacques Villeneuve	9	52	2	17, 34	32.6, 32.5
Alexander Wurz	10	52	2	15, 33	33.1, 33.1
Pedro Diniz	11	52	2	20, 37	32.3, 31.3
Ricardo Zonta	12	52	2	19, 33	32.7, 32.3
Pedro de la Rosa	13	51	2	17, 34	40.0, 35.8
Giancarlo Fisichella	14	47	2	16, 33	31.8, 32.1
Toranosuke Takagi	DNF	43	2	19, 35	35.9, 34.7
Luca Badoer	DNF	43	3	18, 32, 41	32.3, 37.5, 38.6
David Coulthard	DNF	39	2	22, 34	31.0, 42.7
Marc Gené	DNF	31	2	16, 31	31.5, 39.9
Damon Hill	DNF	21	1	15	39.7
Olivier Panis	DNF	19	1	16	31.1
Jarno Trulli	DNF	3	0	None recorded	—
Alex Zanardi	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
Michael Schumacher · Mika Hakkinen	1 · 2	2 · 1	22 · 19	Mika Hakkinen	Swapped places
Michael Schumacher · Eddie Irvine	1 · 5	2 · 3	22 · 23	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Eddie Irvine	4 · 5	4 · 3	19 · 23	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Swapped places
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Ralf Schumacher	4 · 9	4 · 5	19 · 20	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Johnny Herbert · Ralf Schumacher	8 · 9	7 · 5	17 · 20	Johnny Herbert	Swapped places
Ralf Schumacher · Jean Alesi	9 · 10	5 · 6	20 · 19	Jean Alesi	Kept their order
Johnny Herbert · Jean Alesi	8 · 10	7 · 6	17 · 19	Johnny Herbert	Swapped places
Jean Alesi · Jacques Villeneuve	10 · 11	6 · 9	19 · 17	Jacques Villeneuve	Kept their order
Johnny Herbert · Rubens Barrichello	8 · 13	7 · 8	17 · 20	Johnny Herbert	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Rubens Barrichello	11 · 13	9 · 8	17 · 20	Jacques Villeneuve	Swapped places
Rubens Barrichello · Giancarlo Fisichella	13 · 14	8 · 14	20 · 16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Alexander Wurz	11 · 15	9 · 10	17 · 15	Alexander Wurz	Kept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Alexander Wurz	14 · 15	14 · 10	16 · 15	Alexander Wurz	Swapped places
Alexander Wurz · Pedro Diniz	15 · 17	10 · 11	15 · 20	Alexander Wurz	Kept their order
Pedro Diniz · Ricardo Zonta	17 · 18	11 · 12	20 · 19	Ricardo Zonta	Kept their order
Ricardo Zonta · Pedro de la Rosa	18 · 21	12 · 13	19 · 17	Pedro de la Rosa	Kept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Pedro de la Rosa	14 · 21	14 · 13	16 · 17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Swapped places

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	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	1	1:41.746	—	0 m	—	31
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	2	1:41.894	+0.148	9 m	+0.148	19
3	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:42.215	+0.469	27 m	+0.321	27
4	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	16	1:42.529	+0.783	45 m	+0.314	34
5	Alex Zanardi	Williams	5	1:42.718	+0.972	56 m	+0.189	36
6	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	18	1:42.925	+1.179	68 m	+0.207	32
7	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	9	1:42.953	+1.207	70 m	+0.028	27
8	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	22	1:43.047	+1.301	75 m	+0.094	24
9	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	8	1:43.235	+1.489	86 m	+0.188	30
10	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:43.375	+1.629	94 m	+0.140	33
11	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	6	1:43.399	+1.653	95 m	+0.024	27
12	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	10	1:43.430	+1.684	97 m	+0.031	33
13	Jean Alesi	Sauber	11	1:43.485	+1.739	100 m	+0.055	36
14	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	14	1:43.599	+1.853	107 m	+0.114	37
15	Marc Gené	Minardi	21	1:43.652	+1.906	110 m	+0.053	39
16	Damon Hill	Jordan	7	1:43.720	+1.974	114 m	+0.068	22
17	Ricardo Zonta	British American Racing	23	1:43.776	+2.030	117 m	+0.056	40
18	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	15	1:43.804	+2.058	119 m	+0.028	39
19	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	19	1:43.916	+2.170	125 m	+0.112	33
20	Johnny Herbert	Stewart Grand Prix	17	1:44.179	+2.433	140 m	+0.263	29
21	Pedro Diniz	Sauber	12	1:44.423	+2.677	154 m	+0.244	32
22	Luca Badoer	Minardi	20	1:45.543	+3.797	219 m	+1.120	36

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	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:39.085	—	0 m	—	24
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	1	1:39.579	+0.494	29 m	+0.494	22
3	Johnny Herbert	Stewart Grand Prix	17	1:40.134	+1.049	62 m	+0.555	31
4	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	8	1:40.139	+1.054	62 m	+0.005	21
5	Damon Hill	Jordan	7	1:40.175	+1.090	64 m	+0.036	32
6	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	16	1:40.334	+1.249	74 m	+0.159	26
7	David Coulthard	McLaren	2	1:40.377	+1.292	76 m	+0.043	21
8	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	19	1:40.535	+1.450	86 m	+0.158	29
9	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	6	1:40.570	+1.485	88 m	+0.035	12
10	Jean Alesi	Sauber	11	1:40.632	+1.547	91 m	+0.062	27
11	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	18	1:40.656	+1.571	93 m	+0.024	29
12	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:40.667	+1.582	94 m	+0.011	20
13	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	9	1:41.001	+1.916	113 m	+0.334	22
14	Alex Zanardi	Williams	5	1:41.363	+2.278	135 m	+0.362	25
15	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	10	1:41.562	+2.477	146 m	+0.199	18
16	Pedro Diniz	Sauber	12	1:41.584	+2.499	148 m	+0.022	33
17	Ricardo Zonta	British American Racing	23	1:41.596	+2.511	149 m	+0.012	20
18	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	22	1:41.938	+2.853	169 m	+0.342	17
19	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	14	1:42.156	+3.071	182 m	+0.218	28
20	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	15	1:42.222	+3.137	186 m	+0.066	11
21	Marc Gené	Minardi	21	1:42.895	+3.810	225 m	+0.673	22
22	Luca Badoer	Minardi	20	1:43.077	+3.992	236 m	+0.182	23

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	1:40.630	—	0 m	—	13
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:40.761	+0.131	8 m	+0.131	14
3	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan	8	1:41.372	+0.742	43 m	+0.611	15
4	Ralf Schumacher	Williams	6	1:41.680	+1.050	61 m	+0.308	12
5	David Coulthard	McLaren	2	1:41.714	+1.084	63 m	+0.034	12
6	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:42.060	+1.430	83 m	+0.346	14
7	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	16	1:42.522	+1.892	110 m	+0.462	13
8	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	19	1:42.629	+1.999	116 m	+0.107	7
9	Jacques Villeneuve	British American Racing	22	1:42.844	+2.214	129 m	+0.215	12
10	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	18	1:42.919	+2.289	133 m	+0.075	13
11	Damon Hill	Jordan	7	1:43.023	+2.393	139 m	+0.104	13
12	Johnny Herbert	Stewart Grand Prix	17	1:43.051	+2.421	141 m	+0.028	14
13	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	10	1:43.333	+2.703	157 m	+0.282	12
14	Pedro Diniz	Sauber	12	1:43.339	+2.709	158 m	+0.006	13
15	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	9	1:43.551	+2.921	170 m	+0.212	12
16	Marc Gené	Minardi	21	1:43.708	+3.078	179 m	+0.157	11
17	Alex Zanardi	Williams	5	1:43.757	+3.127	182 m	+0.049	12
18	Jean Alesi	Sauber	11	1:43.896	+3.266	190 m	+0.139	9
19	Pedro de la Rosa	Arrows	14	1:44.411	+3.781	220 m	+0.515	10
20	Ricardo Zonta	British American Racing	23	1:44.816	+4.186	244 m	+0.405	12
21	Toranosuke Takagi	Arrows	15	1:45.508	+4.878	284 m	+0.692	11
22	Luca Badoer	Minardi	20	1:45.596	+4.966	289 m	+0.088	12

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

Ferrari F399
Eddie Irvine 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

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

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

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

Where this comes from

Round: 16 of 1999
Grand Prix: Japanese Grand Prix
Dates: 31 Oct 1999
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-Mercedes
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.