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 Champion
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.
Mika Häkkinen
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Mika Pauli Häkkinen is a Finnish former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1991 to 2001. Nicknamed "the Flying Finn", Häkkinen won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which
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…
Häkkinen in 2016
A Ralt RT34 driven by Häkkinen in the 1990 Macau Grand Prix
Häkkinen driving for Lotus at the 1991 United States Grand Prix, his Formula One debut race
Häkkinen at the 1992 British Grand Prix