The 1998 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 3 May 1998 at the Circuito Permanente de Jerez.
500 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |  Àlex Crivillé
|
Repsol Honda | Honda | 27 | 47:21.522 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 1 |  Mick Doohan
|
Repsol Honda | Honda | 27 | +0.393 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 6 |  Max Biaggi
|
Marlboro Team Kanemoto | Honda | 27 | +0.870 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 8 | Carlos Checa
|
Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 27 | +2.368 | 1 | 13 |
| 5 | 9 |  Alex Barros
|
Honda Gresini | Honda | 27 | +13.311 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 |  Norick Abe
|
Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 27 | +13.933 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | 2 | Tadayuki Okada
|
Repsol Honda | Honda | 27 | +14.471 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki
|
Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 27 | +24.127 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 |  Kenny Roberts Jr.
|
Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 27 | +26.700 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 28 |  Ralf Waldmann
|
Marlboro Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 27 | +29.597 | 9 | 6 |
| 11 | 19 | John Kocinski
|
Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 27 | +31.561 | 6 | 5 |
| 12 | 15 | Sete Gibernau
|
Repsol Honda | Honda | 27 | +36.141 | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 11 |  Simon Crafar
|
Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 27 | +41.486 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 55 |  Régis Laconi
|
Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 27 | +54.947 | 13 | 2 |
| 15 | 18 | Garry McCoy
|
Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 27 | +55.158 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 21 | Kyoji Nanba
|
Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 27 | +1:01.172 | 14 | |
| 17 | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert
|
Tecmas Honda Elf | Honda | 27 | +1:05.910 | 19 | |
| 18 | 17 |  Jurgen van den Goorbergh
|
Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 27 | +1:10.801 | 18 | |
| 19 | 25 | Yukio Kagayama
|
Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 27 | +1:32.385 | 15 | |
| 20 | 23 | Matt Wait
|
FCC TSR | Honda | 27 | +1:33.597 | 21 | |
| 21 | 88 |  Scott Smart
|
Team Millar Honda Britain | Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| 22 | 58 |  Felisberto Teixeira
|
Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| Ret | 57 | Fabio Carpani
|
Team Polini Inoxmacel | Honda | 15 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 14 | Juan Borja
|
Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 13 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Sources:[3][4][5] | ||||||||
250 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 65 | Loris Capirossi
|
Aprilia | 26 | 46:00.131 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi
|
Aprilia | 26 | +3.415 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 19 | Olivier Jacque
|
Honda | 26 | +7.576 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | 5 | Tohru Ukawa
|
Honda | 26 | +8.186 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | 34 | Marcellino Lucchi
|
Aprilia | 26 | +14.337 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | 6 | Haruchika Aoki
|
Honda | 26 | +24.939 | 10 | 10 |
| 7 | 4 | Stefano Perugini
|
Honda | 26 | +28.435 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 7 | Takeshi Tsujimura
|
Yamaha | 26 | +31.492 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 8 | Luis d'Antin
|
Yamaha | 26 | +45.003 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 18 | Osamu Miyazaki
|
Yamaha | 26 | +45.558 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro
|
TSR-Honda | 26 | +45.999 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 21 | Franco Battaini
|
Yamaha | 26 | +49.032 | 20 | 4 |
| 13 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo
|
TSR-Honda | 26 | +1:04.043 | 19 | 3 |
| 14 | 12 | Noriyasu Numata
|
Suzuki | 26 | +1:07.866 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 20 | William Costes
|
Honda | 26 | +1:37.376 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 25 | Yasumasa Hatakeyama
|
Honda | 25 | +1 lap | 23 | |
| 17 | 59 | Ismael Bonilla
|
Honda | 25 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| 18 | 41 |  Federico Gartner
|
Aprilia | 25 | +1 lap | 26 | |
| Ret | 11 | Jürgen Fuchs
|
Aprilia | 23 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 24 | Jason Vincent
|
TSR-Honda | 18 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 27 | Sebastián Porto
|
Aprilia | 12 | Retirement | 12 | |
| Ret | 17 | José Luis Cardoso
|
Yamaha | 9 | Retirement | 7 | |
| DSQ | 31 | Tetsuya Harada
|
Aprilia | 9 | Disqualified | 4 | |
| Ret | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt
|
Suzuki | 4 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 58 | Eustaquio Gavira
|
Honda | 4 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 14 | Davide Bulega
|
Honda | 2 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 60 | Agustín Escobar
|
Honda | 0 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams
|
TSR-Honda | 0 | Accident | 13 | |
| DNQ | 61 | Manuel Luque
|
Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
| OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT | |||||||
125 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Kazuto Sakata
|
Aprilia | 23 | 42:19.751 | 6 | 25 |
| 2 | 3 | Tomomi Manako
|
Honda | 23 | +2.101 | 9 | 20 |
| 3 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti
|
Honda | 23 | +2.229 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 20 | Masao Azuma
|
Honda | 23 | +2.731 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | 2 | Noboru Ueda
|
Honda | 23 | +8.516 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš
|
Honda | 23 | +17.476 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 41 | Youichi Ui
|
Yamaha | 23 | +28.751 | 3 | 9 |
| 8 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini
|
Honda | 23 | +28.950 | 5 | 8 |
| 9 | 23 | Gino Borsoi
|
Aprilia | 23 | +29.204 | 10 | 7 |
| 10 | 13 | Marco Melandri
|
Honda | 23 | +29.213 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 9 | Frédéric Petit
|
Honda | 23 | +35.679 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | Masaki Tokudome
|
Aprilia | 23 | +42.314 | 11 | 4 |
| 13 | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr.
|
Aprilia | 23 | +42.872 | 24 | 3 |
| 14 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent
|
Aprilia | 23 | +49.952 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 60 | Fonsi Nieto
|
Aprilia | 23 | +52.822 | 26 | 1 |
| 16 | 22 | Steve Jenkner
|
Aprilia | 23 | +53.236 | 19 | |
| 17 | 11 | José Ramírez
|
Aprilia | 23 | +53.534 | 18 | |
| 18 | 18 | Paolo Tessari
|
Aprilia | 23 | +1:13.081 | 14 | |
| 19 | 59 | Jerónimo Vidal
|
Aprilia | 23 | +1:14.135 | 25 | |
| Ret | 19 | Andrea Ballerini
|
Honda | 16 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 17 | Enrique Maturana
|
Yamaha | 11 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 10 | Lucio Cecchinello
|
Honda | 10 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 16 | Christian Manna
|
Yamaha | 9 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 7 | Emilio Alzamora
|
Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 15 | Roberto Locatelli
|
Honda | 3 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 26 | Ivan Goi
|
Aprilia | 3 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 62 | Yoshiaki Katoh
|
Yamaha | 1 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 58 | Álvaro Molina
|
Honda | 1 | Retirement | 28 | |
| DNS | 61 | Vicente Esparragoso
|
Yamaha | 0 | Did not start | 29 | |
| OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT | |||||||
Championship standings after the race (500cc)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round three has concluded.[6]
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
- ^ "1998 Spanish MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Jerez Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "1998 Spanish MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
- ^ "OFFICIAL 500cc REPORT" (PDF).
- ^ "motogp.com · SPANISH GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1998". www.motogp.com.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 1998. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
