1998 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 4 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||
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| Date | 17 May 1998 | ||
| Official name | Gran Premio Q8 d'Italia | ||
| Location | Mugello Circuit | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 5.245 km (3.259 mi) | ||
| 500 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Mick Doohan |
Honda | |
| Time | 1:53.282 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Mick Doohan |
Honda | |
| Time | 1:53.342 on lap 7 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mick Doohan |
Honda | |
| Second |  Max Biaggi |
Honda | |
| Third |  Àlex Crivillé |
Honda | |
| 250 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Tetsuya Harada |
Aprilia | |
| Time | 1:54.683 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Marcellino Lucchi |
Aprilia | |
| Time | 1:55.467 on lap 8 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Marcellino Lucchi |
Aprilia | |
| Second | Valentino Rossi |
Aprilia | |
| Third | Tetsuya Harada |
Aprilia | |
| 125 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider | Noboru Ueda |
Honda | |
| Time | 2:00.419 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Lucio Cecchinello |
Honda | |
| Time | 2:00.966 on lap 3 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Tomomi Manako |
Honda | |
| Second | Marco Melandri |
Honda | |
| Third | Gianluigi Scalvini |
Honda | |
The 1998 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth race of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 17 May 1998 at the Mugello Circuit.
500 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Mick Doohan |
Honda | 23 | 43:55.307 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 6 | Max Biaggi |
Honda | 23 | +5.395 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 4 | Àlex Crivillé |
Honda | 23 | +13.141 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 8 | Carlos Checa |
Honda | 23 | +19.647 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 19 |  John Kocinski |
Honda | 23 | +19.826 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | Norick Abe |
Yamaha | 23 | +21.881 | 7 | 10 |
| 7 | 11 |  Simon Crafar |
Yamaha | 23 | +22.626 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki |
Suzuki | 23 | +24.235 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 9 |  Alex Barros |
Honda | 23 | +27.943 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | 55 |  Régis Laconi |
Yamaha | 23 | +40.767 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | 28 |  Ralf Waldmann |
Modenas KR3 | 23 | +47.331 | 19 | 5 |
| 12 | 21 | Kyoji Nanba |
Yamaha | 23 | +59.623 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 18 | Garry McCoy |
Honda | 23 | +1:04.004 | 9 | 3 |
| 14 | 15 | Sete Gibernau |
Honda | 23 | +1:09.319 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert |
Honda | 23 | +1:14.294 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 17 |  Jurgen vd Goorbergh |
Honda | 23 | +1:15.781 | 18 | |
| 17 | 25 | Yukio Kagayama |
Suzuki | 23 | +1:16.909 | 12 | |
| 18 | 77 |  Eskil Suter |
MuZ | 23 | +2:02.092 | 20 | |
| 19 | 88 |  Scott Smart |
Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| 20 | 57 | Fabio Carpani |
Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| Ret | 63 | Gianmaria Liverani |
Paton | 21 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 14 | Juan Borja |
Honda | 15 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 10 | Kenny Roberts, Jr. |
Modenas KR3 | 11 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 23 | Matt Wait |
Honda | 0 | Accident | 21 | |
| DNQ | 2 | Tadayuki Okada |
Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| Source: [1] | |||||||
250 cc classification
The race was held in two parts as rain caused its interruption; aggregate times from the two heats determined the final result.[2]
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 | Marcellino Lucchi |
Aprilia | 21 | 40:59.049 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi |
Aprilia | 21 | +5.701 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada |
Aprilia | 21 | +7.625 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 65 | Loris Capirossi |
Aprilia | 21 | +10.029 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Stefano Perugini |
Honda | 21 | +47.830 | 13 | 11 |
| 6 | 6 | Haruchika Aoki |
Honda | 21 | +48.205 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 5 | Tohru Ukawa |
Honda | 21 | +49.376 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 17 | José Luis Cardoso |
Yamaha | 21 | +50.080 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 8 | Luis d'Antin |
Yamaha | 21 | +50.161 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro |
TSR-Honda | 21 | +52.738 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | Franco Battaini |
Yamaha | 21 | +54.241 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 7 | Takeshi Tsujimura |
Yamaha | 21 | +54.306 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 25 | Yasumasa Hatakeyama |
ERP Honda | 21 | +1:50.752 | 23 | 3 |
| 14 | 14 | Davide Bulega |
Honda | 21 | +1:53.990 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 41 |  Federico Gartner |
Aprilia | 21 | +2:22.611 | 24 | 1 |
| 16 | 20 | William Costes |
Honda | 20 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| Ret | 18 | Osamu Miyazaki |
Yamaha | 19 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams |
TSR-Honda | 19 | Retirement | 7 | |
| Ret | 27 | Sebastián Porto |
Aprilia | 14 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 12 | Noriyasu Numata |
Suzuki | 11 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 19 | Olivier Jacque |
Honda | 10 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 24 | Jason Vincent |
TSR-Honda | 6 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 11 | Jürgen Fuchs |
Aprilia | 2 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 44 | Roberto Rolfo |
TSR-Honda | 1 | Accident | 9 | |
| DNS | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt |
Suzuki | Did not start | |||
| Source: [3] | |||||||
125 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Tomomi Manako |
Honda | 20 | 40:53.607 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 13 | Marco Melandri |
Honda | 20 | +0.044 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini |
Honda | 20 | +0.201 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Kazuto Sakata |
Aprilia | 20 | +3.152 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 41 | Youichi Ui |
Yamaha | 20 | +8.162 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 23 | Gino Borsoi |
Aprilia | 20 | +8.195 | 14 | 10 |
| 7 | 2 | Noboru Ueda |
Honda | 20 | +10.097 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | 9 | Frédéric Petit |
Honda | 20 | +12.745 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 20 | Masao Azuma |
Honda | 20 | +12.757 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 5 | Masaki Tokudome |
Aprilia | 20 | +24.284 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent |
Aprilia | 20 | +24.388 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 18 | Paolo Tessari |
Aprilia | 20 | +24.415 | 6 | 4 |
| 13 | 26 | Ivan Goi |
Aprilia | 20 | +25.393 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 22 | Steve Jenkner |
Aprilia | 20 | +31.066 | 16 | 2 |
| 15 | 64 | Claudio Cipriani |
Aprilia | 20 | +49.419 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 59 | Jerónimo Vidal |
Aprilia | 20 | +52.007 | 21 | |
| 17 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora |
Aprilia | 20 | +1:01.180 | 20 | |
| 18 | 17 | Enrique Maturana |
Yamaha | 20 | +1:01.801 | 24 | |
| 19 | 62 | Yoshiaki Katoh |
Yamaha | 20 | +1:04.438 | 25 | |
| 20 | 63 | Marco Tresoldi |
Honda | 20 | +1:12.177 | 23 | |
| Ret | 32 | Mirko Giansanti |
Honda | 19 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 10 | Lucio Cecchinello |
Honda | 19 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 65 | Andrea Iommi |
Honda | 14 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš |
Honda | 11 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 16 | Christian Manna |
Yamaha | 5 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 15 | Roberto Locatelli |
Honda | 4 | Retirement | 4 | |
| Ret | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. |
Aprilia | 4 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Source: [4] | |||||||
References
- ↑ "Gran Premio Q8 d'Italia – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 May 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Mondiale. Il Gran Premio d'Italia scopre Marco Melandri, campione baby, protagonista nella 125 L'Italmoto si ritrova e trionfa al Mugello Nella 250 Lucchi guida l'Aprilia al poker 500: Biaggi cede a Doohan ma resta leader". ricerca.gelocal.it (in Italian). Il Tirreno. 18 May 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Gran Premio Q8 d'Italia – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 May 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Gran Premio Q8 d'Italia – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 May 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
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FIM Grand Prix World Championship 1998 season |
Next race: 1998 French Grand Prix |
| Previous race: 1997 Italian Grand Prix |
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