1999 Monaco Grand Prix  |
| Date:13-16 May 1999, Weather Dry, hot and sunny |
From this race…
Zanardi, Alessandro
On lap seventeen Zanardi span up an escape road but he rejoined the race. It transpired that broken seat was making it difficult to control the Williams under braking. “I felt like I was floating in the cockpit. I made several mistakes due to this big problem.” “Sometimes I could not reach the pedals.”
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Drivers Points
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Constructors Points
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Top 5 drivers before
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Top 5 drivers current
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Coulthard, David (McLaren)
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1 pts
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Coulthard was having difficulties due to a foot injury that he had sustained in a charity football match. In Saturday free practice he put is McLaren into the barriers, damaging it‘s right-rear suspension. An offence that did not help his cause.
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Hill, Damon (Jordan)
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1 pts
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Hill put his Jordan into the guardrail in the dying moments of qualifying. Hakkinen set his pole position time passing the static yellow flag for Hill’s strickened car.
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Hill, Damon (Jordan)
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1 pts
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Under braking for the chicane, Hill tried to overtake Ralf Schumacher for fifteenth place on the fourth lap. The Williams and the Jordan touched and Hill was out on the spot. “The incident was my fault. I was simply being too ambitious. Starting in seventeenth place I had to be very aggressive with my strategy and I decided after two laps that I was going to have to overtake. Ralf was defending hi line, so I do not blame him t all.”
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Zanardi, Alessandro (Williams)
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4 pts
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On lap seventeen Zanardi span up an escape road but he rejoined the race. It transpired that broken seat was making it difficult to control the Williams under braking. “I felt like I was floating in the cockpit. I made several mistakes due to this big problem.” “Sometimes I could not reach the pedals.”
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Gene, Marc (Minardi)
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1 pts
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Gene crashed out of the race on lap twenty-three. It was a difficult weekend for the young Spaniard; he had two accidents in practice for the race.
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Salo, Mika (British Americian Racing)
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1 pts
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On lap thirty-seven Salo slid into the guardrail at Loews hairpin, terminally damaging his BAR01. “I had been experiencing brake problems from as early as lap three.” I had to back off a little and could not push hard.” “I was coming up to the Lowes hairpin and the pedal went completely soft. Unfortunately there was nothing I could do except drive into the wall.”
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Hakkinen, Mika (McLaren)
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1 pts
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Hakkinen had a scare on lap thirty-nine. He lost control of his McLaren under braking for Mirabeau, sliding down the escape road. He did rejoin the race but he had lost a significant amount of time. The loss of control had been due to the McLaren loosing adhesion on oil dropped by Takagi’s Arrows as it suffered a major engine failure. “I tried to turn into Mirabeau, the rear wheels began to lock so I decided to steer down the escape road rather than risk spinning into the barrier.”
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Schumacher, Ralf (Williams)
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1 pts
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On lap fifty-four Ralf lost control of his Williams at the Old Station hairpin and crashed into the barrier and retirement.
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Barrichello, Rubens (Stewart)
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1 pts
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On lap seventy-one Barrichello crashed out of the race. Earlier in the race his teammate, Johnny Herbert was eliminated when his Stewart’s right-rear suspension failed. Herbert was able to keep the car away from the barriers. The same problem caused Barrichello to retire but he was unable to keep off the barriers.
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