1998 German motorcycle Grand Prix
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Race 9 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 19 July 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official name | Polini Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Sachsenring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course |
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500 cc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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250 cc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1998 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 19 July 1998 at the Sachsenring.
500 cc classification[]
Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 1 | Mick Doohan | Repsol Honda | Honda | 31 | 46:00.876 | 3 | 25 |
2 | 6 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Team Kanemoto | Honda | 31 | +2.873 | 1 | 20 |
3 | 4 | Àlex Crivillé | Repsol Honda | Honda | 31 | +11.379 | 7 | 16 |
4 | 9 | Alex Barros | Honda Gresini | Honda | 31 | +11.533 | 6 | 13 |
5 | 55 | Régis Laconi | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 31 | +19.093 | 4 | 11 |
6 | 10 | Kenny Roberts, Jr. | Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 31 | +30.087 | 2 | 10 |
7 | 28 | Ralf Waldmann | Marlboro Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 31 | +34.881 | 11 | 9 |
8 | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 31 | +35.033 | 10 | 8 |
9 | 21 | Kyoji Nanba | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 31 | +46.078 | 13 | 7 |
10 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 31 | +48.684 | 12 | 6 |
11 | 39 | Gregorio Lavilla | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 31 | +58.019 | 17 | 5 |
12 | 26 | Bernard Garcia | Tecmas Honda Elf | Honda | 31 | +1:03.165 | 19 | 4 |
13 | 77 | Eskil Suter | MuZ Roc RennSport | MuZ | 31 | +1:10.827 | 14 | 3 |
14 | 23 | Matt Wait | FCC TSR | Honda | 31 | +1:10.941 | 18 | 2 |
15 | 72 | Fernando Cristóbal | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 31 | +1:31.896 | 20 | 1 |
16 | 57 | Fabio Carpani | Team Polini Inoxmacel | Honda | 30 | +1 lap | 21 | |
Ret | 18 | Garry McCoy | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 30 | Retirement | 15 | |
Ret | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Repsol Honda | Honda | 29 | Retirement | 9 | |
Ret | 88 | Scott Smart | Team Millar Honda Britain | Honda | 26 | Retirement | 16 | |
Ret | 11 | Simon Crafar | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 11 | Accident | 5 | |
Ret | 5 | Norick Abe | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 5 | Accident | 8 | |
WD | 60 | Jörg Schöllhorn | Team Zupin | Honda | Withdrew | |||
Source: [3] |
250 cc classification[]
Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 30 | 44:43.421 | 1 | 25 |
2 | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams | -Honda | 30 | +9.033 | 7 | 20 |
3 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Aprilia | 30 | +9.267 | 4 | 16 |
4 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Aprilia | 30 | +10.611 | 2 | 13 |
5 | 24 | -Honda | 30 | +38.261 | 8 | 11 | |
6 | 7 | Takeshi Tsujimura | Yamaha | 30 | +43.611 | 10 | 10 |
7 | 17 | José Luis Cardoso | Yamaha | 30 | +45.243 | 13 | 9 |
8 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | -Honda | 30 | +45.702 | 16 | 8 |
9 | 12 | Noriyasu Numata | Suzuki | 30 | +49.915 | 12 | 7 |
10 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Honda | 30 | +51.523 | 11 | 6 |
11 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | -Honda | 30 | +54.914 | 18 | 5 |
12 | 8 | Luis d'Antin | Yamaha | 30 | +1:20.499 | 17 | 4 |
13 | 14 | ERP Honda | 30 | +1:23.418 | 20 | 3 | |
14 | 33 | Yamaha | 30 | +1:23.915 | 14 | 2 | |
15 | 84 | Honda | 29 | +1 lap | 24 | 1 | |
Ret | 86 | Honda | 13 | Accident | 21 | ||
Ret | 85 | Aprilia | 13 | Accident | 25 | ||
Ret | 20 | Honda | 10 | Retirement | 23 | ||
Ret | 47 | Yamaha | 9 | Accident | 19 | ||
Ret | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Suzuki | 6 | Accident | 15 | |
Ret | 27 | Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 3 | |
Ret | 6 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 4 | Retirement | 9 | |
Ret | 4 | Stefano Perugini | Honda | 3 | Accident | 5 | |
Ret | 5 | Tohru Ukawa | Honda | 3 | Accident | 6 | |
Ret | 41 | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 22 | ||
Ret | 87 | Honda | 0 | Accident | 26 | ||
DNS | 11 | Jürgen Fuchs | Aprilia | Did not start | |||
DNS | 25 | ERP Honda | Did not start | ||||
WD | 68 | Honda | Withdrew | ||||
Source: [4] |
125 cc classification[]
Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 3 | Tomomi Manako | Honda | 29 | 44:37.947 | 6 | 25 |
2 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 29 | +16.513 | 18 | 20 |
3 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Honda | 29 | +24.754 | 9 | 16 |
4 | 52 | Honda | 29 | +24.771 | 11 | 13 | |
5 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Aprilia | 29 | +25.778 | 8 | 11 |
6 | 62 | Yamaha | 29 | +28.862 | 16 | 10 | |
7 | 4 | Kazuto Sakata | Aprilia | 29 | +37.703 | 2 | 9 |
8 | 22 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 29 | +39.681 | 10 | 8 |
9 | 5 | Masaki Tokudome | Aprilia | 29 | +41.147 | 7 | 7 |
10 | 29 | Aprilia | 29 | +49.449 | 15 | 6 | |
11 | 26 | Ivan Goi | Aprilia | 29 | +54.783 | 23 | 5 |
12 | 17 | Yamaha | 29 | +54.868 | 19 | 4 | |
13 | 13 | Marco Melandri | Honda | 29 | +55.292 | 1 | 3 |
14 | 65 | Honda | 29 | +55.350 | 21 | 2 | |
15 | 16 | Yamaha | 29 | +58.319 | 25 | 1 | |
16 | 85 | Honda | 29 | +1:09.226 | 20 | ||
17 | 14 | Aprilia | 29 | +1:17.974 | 17 | ||
18 | 84 | Honda | 29 | +1:27.436 | 24 | ||
19 | 86 | Yamaha | 29 | +1:28.176 | 27 | ||
20 | 87 | Dirk Heidolf | Honda | 29 | +1:29.205 | 28 | |
Ret | 20 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 10 | Retirement | 14 | |
Ret | 41 | Youichi Ui | Yamaha | 9 | Accident | 4 | |
Ret | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 9 | Accident | 3 | |
Ret | 59 | Aprilia | 8 | Accident | 22 | ||
Ret | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 5 | |
Ret | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 7 | Accident | 12 | |
Ret | 88 | Yamaha | 6 | Retirement | 26 | ||
Ret | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Honda | 3 | Accident | 13 | |
DNS | 9 | Frédéric Petit | Honda | Did not start | |||
DNS | 10 | Lucio Cecchinello | Honda | Did not start | |||
Source: [5] |
Championship standings after the race (500cc)[]
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded.[6]
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References[]
- ^ "1998 German MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
- ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Sachsenring - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
- ^ "Polini Motorrad GP Deutschland – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 19 July 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ^ "Polini Motorrad GP Deutschland – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 19 July 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ^ "Polini Motorrad GP Deutschland – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 19 July 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 1998. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
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- German motorcycle Grand Prix
- 1998 MotoGP race reports
- 1998 in German motorsport