The 1999 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on March 7, 1999 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne, Australia. It was the first race of the 1999 Formula One season - the 50th World Championship season in the history of Formula One.
Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard dominated in practice and the opening stage of the race, but retired with technical problems - the new McLaren MP4/14 proved to be very fast but not yet reliable. Michael Schumacher also had problems during this eventful race, which gave his Ferrari team mate Eddie Irvine the opportunity to take his first Grand Prix victory. The Irishman made no mistakes and beat Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Ralf Schumacher to the finish by a few seconds.
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