The Honda RA099 was a prototype Formula One car commissioned by Honda, designed by former Ferrari and Tyrrell designer Harvey Postlethwaite and built by Dallara in 1999. It was intended as a working test car in preparation for a full-scale assault on Grand Prix racing in the following years. Postlethwaite and former Tyrrell staff who joined Honda after British American Racing took over their team designed it in a few months, and it first ran on 15 December 1998 at Varano de' Melegari in Italy. It impressed in the 1999 winter tests for reliability and pace, but Postlethwaite died of a heart attack at a test in Barcelona in April 1999, and on 21 May 1999 Honda abandoned its own team and chose to partner with British American Racing instead.
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