Takagi Disqualified from the French GP
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Monday June 28th, 1999

Arrows driver Tora Takagi has been disqualified from the French Grand Prix, for running on an unauthorised set of tyres.

Takagi, who finished the race 11th, was mistakenly fitted with his teammate's tyres during a pitstop. The FIA regulations allocate each driver a number of tyre sets, which should be marked as his for scrutineering, and no driver may use any set of tyres which are not allocated to him and marked. Therefore, even though the race stewards acknowledged that the tyre mix-up was an innocent mistake by Arrows, the stuck with the race scrutineers decision and disqualified Takagi.

Amended Results of the French Grand Prix:

CLASSIFIED

Pos  Driver        Team                Time       
 1.  Frentzen      Jordan Mugen-Honda  1h58:24.343   
 2.  Hakkinen      Mclaren Mercedes    +    5.000    
 3.  Barrichello   Stewart Ford        +   34.500    
 4.  R.Schumacher  Williams Supertec   +   40.700    
 5.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari             +   42.000    
 6.  Irvine        Ferrari             +   42.500    
 7.  Trulli        Prost Peugeot       +   52.700    
 8.  Panis         Prost Peugeot       +   55.000    
 9.  Zonta         BAR Supertec        + 1:03.800    
10.  Badoer        Minardi Ford        +    1 Lap    
11.  de la Rosa    Arrows TWR          +    1 Lap    

NOT CLASSIFIED 

     Driver        Team               On Lap    Reason      
     Fisichella    Benetton Playlife    42      spun off    
     Hill          Jordan Mugen-Honda   31      retired     
     Zanardi       Williams Supertec    26      spun off    
     Villeneuve    Bar Supertec         25      spun off    
     Wurz          Benetton Playlife    25      spun off.   
     Gene          Minardi Ford         25      spun off    
     Alesi         Sauber Petronas      24      spun off    
     Coulthard     Mclaren Mercedes      9      electrical  
     Diniz         Sauber Petronas       6      transmission
     Herbert       Stewart Ford          4      gearbox     
     Takagi        Arrows TWR            -      Disqualified
	 

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