1999 Italian Grand Prix

1999 Italian Grand Prix
Race 13 of 16 in the 1999 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza (last modified in 1995)
Race details
Date	12 September 1999
Official name	70º Gran Premio Campari d'Italia
Location	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Monza, Lombardy, Italy
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.770 km (3.585 miles)
Distance	53 laps, 305.810 km (190.022 miles)
Weather	Hot and dry with temperatures reaching up to 30 °C (86 °F)[1]
Pole position
Driver	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Time	1:22.432
Fastest lap
Driver	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-Supertec
Time	1:25.579 on lap 48
Podium
First	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Jordan-Mugen-Honda
Second	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-Supertec
Third	Mika Salo	Ferrari
Lap leaders

The 1999 Italian Grand Prix (formally the 70º Gran Premio Campari d'Italia^[2]) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 September 1999 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza near Monza, Italy. It was the thirteenth race of the 1999 Formula One World Championship, and the last held on this layout.

The 53-lap race 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. Häkkinen's rival Eddie Irvine finished sixth in the other Ferrari, thus moving level on points with the Finn at the top of the Drivers' Championship.

Though the victory moved Frentzen to within ten points of Häkkinen and Irvine, it would turn out to be his third and last victory in Formula One, as well as the last for engine suppliers Mugen. It was also the Jordan team's only victory in dry conditions, their others coming in the rain.