The 1999 Australian Grand Prix was won by Eddie Irvine of Ferrari. Despite being on pole position in Australia, Mika Häkkinen could not convert this into a win. Häkkinen was forced to retire in lap 21 due to: Throttle.
The race in Australia was round 1 of 16 of the 1999 season.
The 1999 Australian Grand Prix (formally the LXIV Qantas Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 7 March 1999 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia. The 57-lap race was the first round of the 1999 Formula One season – the 50th World Championship season in the history of Formula One.
Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard dominated in practice and the opening stage of the race, but retired with technical problems – the new McLaren MP4/14 proved to be very fast but not yet reliable, a trait shared by a number of Adrian Newey designed cars. Michael Schumacher also had problems during this eventful race, which gave his Ferrari team mate Eddie Irvine the opportunity to take his first Grand Prix victory. He made no mistakes and beat Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Ralf Schumacher to the finish by a few seconds.
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