Kammala wannan magana: Don 1999, Irvine ya kasance da tabbaci yana zuwa kakar wasa, yana cewa: "Bayan sakamakon shekarar da ta gabata inda na sami mafi kyawun nasarar gasar zakarun duniya tare da matsayi na 4 gaba ɗaya, yanzu, don wannan shekarar, Ina so in yi kyau sosai". Lokacinsa ya fara da kyau: bayan 81 Grand Prix, Irvine ya ci nasararsa ta farko ta Formula One a zagayen bude kakar a Ostiraliya, wanda ya ba shi jagorancin gasar zakarun duniya a karon farko. A tseren da ya biyo baya a Brazil, tseren da ba a tsara ba, saboda toshewar radiators, ya kashe Irvine a kan podium, kuma a ƙarshe ya gama na biyar. Makonni uku daga baya a cikin
San Marino Grand Prix, Irvine zai rasa wani podium gama, bayan da motarsa ta sha wahala injin na 47 (na 62) yayin da yake a wuri na uku mai dadi, ya rasa jagorancin gasar zakarun Turai ga abokin aikinsa Schumacher. Irvine ya gama na biyu a Monaco, a bayan Schumacher, yana ba Ferrari nasarar farko ta biyu a kakar wasa ta bana, kuma ta farko a cikin Yarima. A zagaye na gaba a Kanada, Irvine ya kafa mafi saurin zagaye (aikinsa ɗaya kuma kawai) kuma ya tsira daga haɗuwa da direban McLaren David Coulthard akan hanyar zuwa na uku.