1999

Pos	Driver	Nat	Car	Pts	Wins	Share of the leader
1	Mika Häkkinen	Finnish	McLaren	76	5
2	Eddie Irvine	British	Ferrari	74	4
3	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	German	Jordan	54	2
4	David CoulthardCOU	British	McLaren	48	2
5	Michael SchumacherMSC	German	Ferrari	44	2
6	Ralf SchumacherSCH	German	Williams	35	0
7	Rubens BarrichelloBAR	Brazilian	Stewart	21	0
8	Johnny Herbert	British	Stewart	15	1
9	Giancarlo FisichellaFIS	Italian	Benetton	13	0
10	Mika Salo	Finnish	BAR / Ferrari	10	0
11	Jarno TrulliTRU	Italian	Prost	7	0
12	Damon Hill	British	Jordan	7	0
13	Alexander WurzWUR	Austrian	Benetton	3	0
14	Pedro Diniz	Brazilian	Sauber	3	0
15	Jean Alesi	French	Sauber	2	0
16	Olivier Panis	French	Prost	2	0
17	Marc Gené	Spanish	Minardi	1	0
18	Pedro de la RosaDLR	Spanish	Arrows	1	0
—	Luca BadoerBAD	Italian	Minardi	0	0
—	Stéphane Sarrazin	French	Minardi	0	0
—	Toranosuke Takagi	Japanese	Arrows	0	0
—	Jacques VilleneuveVIL	Canadian	BAR	0	0
—	Alessandro Zanardi	Italian	Williams	0	0
—	Ricardo ZontaZON	Brazilian	BAR	0	0

Read from the season’s final standings row, never summed from the race results. 6 of 24 entries in this table carry no championship position and are ruled below the placed field, ordered by points.

Read from the season’s final constructor standings row. A constructor scores through both of its cars, so these totals are not the sum of any one driver’s line above.

Both championship tables on this page are read from the season’s standings rows at round 16, the last round loaded, and neither is derived by adding up the race results. That distinction is the whole point: for most of the sport’s history only a driver’s best few results counted toward the title, a race stopped short paid half points, and a driver could be excluded from a championship he had scored in, so a table built by summing the results column would disagree with the championship as it was actually awarded. Positions are the source’s own; where it recorded none, the row prints a dash and sits below the placed field rather than being given a place it never held or dropped from the page. A points total is printed as it is stored, to two decimals where it needs them, because the sport has awarded half points and split shared drives since the 1950s and those fractions are real. The calendar is every round in the archive for 1999, in round order, with the winner taken from the classification code the source prints rather than from its sort key; three of the 1,161 races loaded were won by a shared car, and for those the calendar names one driver while the race classification credits both. The Cars column counts the rows in each race’s classification, which includes cars that retired, so it is entries with a recorded result rather than a count of cars that took the start. The drivers and constructors counted in the masthead are those that appear in a race result for 1999, not those that entered. The constructors’ championship has been awarded since 1958, so both tables exist for this season. 1999 is complete: all 16 rounds are loaded and both tables are final.