27th season of the FIA World Rally Championship
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 [ edit ] The 1999 championship was contested over fourteen rounds in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and Oceania.
Teams and drivers [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Drivers' championship [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] 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)
Notes: 1 2 3 – Indicate position on TV Covered Stage
FIA Teams' Cup [ edit ] Production World Rally Championship [ edit ] FIA 2 Litre World Cup for Manufacturers [ edit ] () 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.
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