1999 Formula One World 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 world champion Mika Häkkinen won his second and final title with McLaren.
Eddie Irvine finished runner-up for Ferrari by two points in his last year with the team.
Heinz-Harald Frentzen (pictured in 2006) finished the season third for Jordan.
Jacques Villeneuve joined the new BAR team for 1999.
Mika Pauli Häkkinen, nicknamed "The Flying Finn", is a Finnish former racing driver. He won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1998 and 1999, both times driving for McLaren. Häkkinen is one of three Formula One drivers from Finland that have won the World Drivers' Championship, and the only one to have done so more than once. He currently works in driver management and is a brand ambassador for various companies.
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
