1999 Italian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 13 of 16 in the 1999 Formula One season | |||
Autodromo Nazionale Monza (last modified in 1995)
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| Date | September 12, 1999 | ||
| Official name | LXX Gran Premio Campari d'Italia | ||
| Location | Monza, Italy | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.770 km (3.585 mi) | ||
| Distance | 53 laps, 305.810 km (190.022 mi) | ||
| Weather | Hot and dry with temperatures reaching up to 30 °C (86 °F) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:22.432 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Ralf Schumacher
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Williams-Supertec | |
| Time | 1:25.579 on lap 48 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Jordan-Mugen-Honda | ||
| Second | Williams-Supertec | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
The 1999 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXX Gran Premio Campari d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 September 1999 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza near Monza, Italy. The race, contested over 53 laps, was the thirteenth race of the 1999 Formula One season and was won by Heinz-Harald Frentzen, driving a Jordan-Mugen-Honda, after McLaren's Mika Häkkinen, seeking to defend his Drivers' Championship title, spun off while leading comfortably. Ralf Schumacher was second in a Williams-Supertec, with Mika Salo third in a Ferrari.
Going into the race, McLaren's Mika Häkkinen led the Drivers' Championship by a single point from Ferrari's Eddie Irvine, with Jordan's Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Häkkinen's team-mate David Coulthard also still in contention. Häkkinen was expected to do well on the fast Monza circuit, and duly claimed pole position by half a second from Frentzen. Coulthard was third, while Alex Zanardi, who had been having a poor year with Williams, was fourth, just ahead of team-mate Ralf Schumacher. On Ferrari's home soil, Irvine had a poor qualifying session and could only manage eighth, behind team-mate Mika Salo in sixth and Stewart's Rubens Barrichello – who had just signed with Ferrari to replace Irvine in 2000 – in seventh. Completing the top ten were Damon Hill in the second Jordan and Olivier Panis in the Prost.
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