27th season of the FIA World Rally Championship
1999 World Rally Championship
World Drivers' Champion:
Tommi MäkinenWorld Manufacturers' Champion:
Toyota
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The 1999 World Rally Championship was the 27th season of the FIA World Rally Championship. The season consisted of 14 rallies. Tommi Mäkinen won his fourth drivers' world championship driving for Mitsubishi, ahead of Richard Burns and Didier Auriol. The manufacturers' title was won by Toyota, ahead of Subaru and Mitsubishi.
In an upset predicted two years earlier a two-wheel-drive car won a rally for the first time since Alain Oreille won the 1989 Rallye Côte d'Ivoire in his Renault 5 when Philippe Bugalski took his Citroën Xsara Kit Car to victory in the Rally Catalunya. Bugalski backed it up three weeks later winning the Tour de Corse. With such specialised tarmac cars now beating WRC cars while at the same time not competing in the FIA 2-Litre World Rally Cup designed for them a revamp of two-wheel-drive regulations was created for the 2000 season.
Calendar
The 1999 championship was contested over fourteen rounds in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and Oceania.
Teams and drivers
Team | Manufacturer | Car | Tyre | No | Drivers | Rounds |
Marlboro Mitsubishi Ralliart | Mitsubishi | Lancer Evo VI | M | 1 | Tommi Mäkinen | All |
2 | Freddy Loix | 1–3, 5–14 |
Marcus Grönholm | 4 |
22 | Hamed Al-Wahaibi | 2–13 |
Toyota Castrol Team | Toyota | Corolla WRC | M | 3 | Carlos Sainz | All |
4 | Didier Auriol | All |
12 | Ian Duncan | 3 |
18 | Neal Bates | 13 |
Takuma Kamada | 9, 11 |
19 | Pasi Hagström | 2, 4, 10 |
Pedro Chaves | 4 |
26 | Henrik Lundgaard | 1, 5–6, 12 |
32 | Isolde Holderied | 1, 6, 12 |
42 | Matthias Kahle | 3, 8–9, 14 |
45 | Martin Brundle | 14 |
52 | Jonny Milner | 14 |
Subaru World Rally Team | Subaru | Impreza WRC 99 | P | 5 | Richard Burns | All |
6 | Juha Kankkunen | 1–4, 7–14 |
Bruno Thiry | 5–6 |
14 | Bruno Thiry | 1–4 |
Juha Kankkunen | 5 |
17 | Possum Bourne | 9, 13 |
Ford Motor Co Ltd | Ford | Focus RS WRC 99 | M | 7 | Colin McRae | All |
8 | Simon Jean-Joseph | 1, 5–6, 12 |
Thomas Rådström | 2, 7–11, 13–14 |
Petter Solberg | 3–4 |
20 | Petter Solberg | 2, 10, 12, 14 |
SEAT Sport | SEAT | Córdoba WRC | P | 9 | Harri Rovanperä | All |
10 | Piero Liatti | 1, 3–8, 11–12 |
Marcus Grönholm | 2 |
Toni Gardemeister | 9–10, 13–14 |
16 | Gwyndaf Evans | 14 |
20 | Toni Gardemeister | 12 |
Škoda Motorsport | Škoda | Octavia WRC | M | 11 | Armin Schwarz | 1, 4–5, 8, 10, 12, 14 |
12 | Pavel Sibera | 1, 5 |
Emil Triner | 4, 8, 10, 12 |
Bruno Thiry | 14 |
Peugeot Esso | Peugeot | 206 WRC | M | 14 | François Delecour | 6, 8, 10, 12–14 |
15 | Gilles Panizzi | 6, 12 |
Marcus Grönholm | 8, 10, 13–14 |
21 | Marcus Grönholm | 12 |
22 | Gilles Panizzi | 10, 14 |
Citroën Sport | Citroën | Xsara F2 | M | 18 | Philippe Bugalski | 5–6, 12 |
19 | Jesús Puras | 5–6, 12 |
Renault Sport | Renault | Mégane Maxi | M | 19 | Oriol Gómez | 5 |
22 | Walter Suriani | 7 |
23 | Tapio Laukkanen | 4, 6, 10, 12–14 |
27 | Martin Rowe | 4, 6, 10, 12–14 |
30 | José Carlos Macedo | 4 |
31 | Benoît Rousselot | 6 |
33 | Pedro Azeredo | 4 |
42 | Raphael Sperrer | 12 |
44 | Kris Princen | 8, 12 |
Hyundai World Rally Team | Hyundai | Coupe Evo 2 | M | 24 | Alister McRae | 2, 4–5, 8–14 |
26 | Kenneth Eriksson | 2, 4–5, 8–14 |
Results and standings
Drivers' championship
| Key | Colour | Result | Gold | Winner | Silver | 2nd place | Bronze | 3rd place | Green | Points finish | Blue | Non-points finish | Non-classified finish (NC) | Purple | Did not finish (Ret) | Black | Excluded (EX) | Disqualified (DSQ) | White | Did not start (DNS) | Cancelled (C) | Blank | Withdrew entry from the event (WD) | |
Manufacturers' championship
FIA Teams' Cup
Production World Rally Championship
Pos. | Driver | MON | SWE | KEN | POR | ESP | FRA | ARG | GRE | NZL | FIN | CHN | ITA | AUS | GBR | Pts |
1 | Gustavo Trelles | 2 | 6 | | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | Ret | 1 | Ret | 2 | Ret | Ret | | 69 |
2 | Hamed Al-Wahaibi | | 9 | 1 | Ret | 1 | 3 | Ret | 1 | 2 | Ret | Ret | 6 | Ret | | 53 |
3 | Toshihiro Arai | | | | | | | | | 4 | | 1 | | 1 | | 29 |
4 | Manfred Stohl | Ret | 4 | 4 | Ret | Ret | 2 | Ret | Ret | | 3 | | 2 | | Ret | 27 |
5 | Jouko Puhakka | | 1 | | Ret | Ret | Ret | | | | 1 | | | | | 26 |
6 | Ramón Ferreyros | | | | 4 | | | | 2 | | | Ret | | | 1 | 24 |
7 | Gianluigi Galli | | 7 | | Ret | Ret | Ret | | | | 6 | | 1 | | | 24 |
8 | Marc Duez | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 13 |
9 | Miguel Campos | | | | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | 13 |
10 | Jani Paasonen | | 3 | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | 13 |
11 | Katsuhiko Taguchi | | | | | | | | | 3 | | 3 | | 4 | | 13 |
12 | Stig-Olov Walfridson | | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 |
13 | Luis Climent | Ret | 8 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 |
14 | Giovanni Manfrinato | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | | | | 8 |
15 | Jorge Recalde | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | | 8 |
16 | Ed Ordynski | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | 8 |
17 | Richard Tuthill | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 8 |
18 | Christophe Spiliotis | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 |
19 | Hideaki Miyoshi | | | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 |
20 | Juha Kangas | | Ret | | 3 | 8 | | | Ret | | Ret | | | | | 5 |
21 | Claudio Menzi | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | | 5 |
22 | Gaby Goudezeune | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | 5 |
23 | Mario Stagni | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | | | 5 |
24 | Uwe Nittel | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | | 5 |
21 | Gavin Cox | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | 5 |
Pos. | Driver | MON | SWE | KEN | POR | ESP | FRA | ARG | GRE | NZL | FIN | CHN | ITA | AUS | GBR | Pts |
FIA 2 Litre World Cup for Manufacturers
() Denotes dropped score.
Pos | Entrant | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 | R13 | R14 | Pts |
1 | Renault | 16 | (3) | 0 | (7) | 10 | 16 | 10 | 10 | (4) | 16 | 0 | 16 | 8 | (6) | 102 |
2 | Hyundai | 0 | 0 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 95 |
NC(*) | Volkswagen | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
(*) – Volkswagen were not classified for not homologating their Golf Kit Car at the start of the season.
Events
References
- ^ "FIA World Rally Championship Calendar 1999". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "1999 WRC calendar". Jonkka's World Rally Archive. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ a b "Season 1999 – Championship standings". Jonkka's World Rally Archive. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ a b "FIA World Rally Championship Standings 1999". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1999 in World Rally Championship.
- FIA World Rally Championship 1999 at ewrc-results.com
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