The Good and the Bad – F1 livery from 1999
The 1999 FIA Formula 1 World Championship saw Mika Hakkinen and McLaren winning the driver’s title for the second year in a row, while Ferrari took the constructors title in what was an extremely competitive season. The driver’s title went right down to wire, with Hakkinen only just beating Eddie Irvine by two points in what was without questions Irvine’s best season in Formula 1 and one that he perhaps should have won if the Ferrari pit crew hadn’t made a mess of his pitstop during the European Grand Prix, but it was a season that say a lot mistakes from McLaren as well so who can say. 1999 also say Jordan have their strongest ever performance in F1 with Heinz-Harald Frentzen even being in with a shoot with driver’s title, so it was a very good year to an Irish Formula 1 fan!
As for the cars themselves? Well they hadn’t started to sprout all the little wings and other odd things which would become common place in the years to follow, and the 1999 Jordan along with the 2000 Jordan are in my opinion the best look F1 cars and livery since the 7Up Jordan we say in 1991. The 1999 season might be the best for livery that we have seen in this series of The Good and the Bad – F1 livery. Saying that, 1999 might have the worst looking car we have seen in this series of blog posts aswell.
1999 – The Good
Benson and Hedges Jordan
Winfield Williams
Mild Seven Benetton Playlife
1999 – The Bad
British American Racing
