1999 Race of Champions

The 1999 Race of Champions took place on December 5 at Gran Canaria. It was the 12th running of the event, and the eighth running at Gran Canaria. It was the first year for the new Nations' Cup Competition, which saw teams of three competitors – a rally driver, a circuit racing driver and a motorcyclist – team up to represent their nation and compete for national glory.

The vehicles used were the Peugeot 306 Maxi, The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V WRC, the Toyota Corolla WRC and the ROC Buggy.

The individual competition was won by Didier Auriol for a fourth time, whilst the inaugural Nations' Cup was won by Finland with JJ Lehto, Tommi Mäkinen and Kari Tiainen.

Participants edit

Race of Champions edit

Driver	Reason for Qualification
Tommi Mäkinen	World Rally champion in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999
Didier Auriol	World Rally champion in 1994
Carlos Sainz	World Rally champion in 1990 and 1992
Armin Schwarz	Winner in the International Masters
Marcus Grönholm	Finalist in the International Masters
Gilles Panizzi	Beat Alister McRae in a play-off
Stig Blomqvist	Winner in the Legends Race
Björn Waldegård	Finalist in the Legends Race

Nations Cup edit

Country	Racing Driver	Rally Driver	Motorcycle Racer
France	Yannick Dalmas	Didier Auriol	David Vuillemin
Finland	JJ Lehto	Tommi Makinen	Kari Tiainen
Spain	Marc Gené	Carlos Sainz	Pere Riba
Italy	Emanuele Pirro	Miki Biasion	Luca Cadalora
Germany	Christian Abt	Armin Schwarz	Ralf Waldmann
All-Stars	Harri Toivonen	Alister McRae	Joël Smets

Toivonen replaced Danny Sullivan in the All-Stars team.

Legends Race edit

Walter Röhrl & Hannu Mikkola eliminated in the first round.

Semi-finals		Final



Björn Waldegård	2

Miki Biasion	1
		Björn Waldegård	0

		Stig Blomqvist	1
Stig Blomqvist	2

Timo Salonen	0

International Masters edit

Flavio Alonso and Luis Mónzon qualified for being the finalists for the Spanish Rally Masters competition.
Toni Gardemeister was invited but could not attend.
Michael Guest, Krzysztof Holowczyc, Markko Märtin and Adruzilo Lopes were eliminated in the first round.

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final



Alister McRae	1'55.12

Flavio Alonso	1'56.10
		Alister McRae	1'58.08

		Marcus Grönholm	1'56.58
François Delecour	2'00.71

Marcus Grönholm	1'57.54
				Marcus Grönholm	1'58.30

				Armin Schwarz	1'56.83
Gilles Panizzi	1'56.23

Gustavo Trelles	1'58.09
		Gilles Panizzi	1'58.01

		Armin Schwarz	1'57.30
Armin Schwarz	1'54.56

Luis Mónzon	1'58.55

Race of Champions edit

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final



Tommi Mäkinen	2

Björn Waldegård	0
		Tommi Makinen	2

		Carlos Sainz	0
Carlos Sainz	2

Marcus Grönholm	0
				Tommi Mäkinen	1

				Didier Auriol	2
Gilles Panizzi	1

Armin Schwarz	2
		Armin Schwarz	1

		Didier Auriol	2
Stig Blomqvist	0

Didier Auriol	2

Nations' Cup edit

Germany & Italy eliminated in the first round.

Semi-finals		Final



	5

France	4
			4

		Finland	5
Finland	5

All-Stars	0

References edit

External links edit

Information sourced from http://www.atodomotor.com/pagina/ROC.html