1999 Formula One World Championship

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The 1999 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 53rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1999 Formula One World Championship for Drivers and the 1999 Formula One World Championship for Constructors, which were contested concurrently over a sixteen-race series that commenced on 7 March and ended on 31 October. Defending champion Mika Häkkinen was again awarded the World Drivers' Championship. His team McLaren just missed out: it was Ferrari that clinched the World Constructors' Championship by a margin of four points. It would be the last Drivers' title for a McLaren driver until Lewis Hamilton in 2008. It was Ferrari's first Constructors' title since 1983, but would also mark the first of six successive titles up to 2004. Away from the frontrunners, the season proved to be a disastrous one for the new British American Racing (BAR) team with their star driver and 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve, who despite high pre-season expectations failed to score a single...

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