1998 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 10 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||
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| Date | 23 August 1998 | ||
| Official name | Grand Prix České republiky | ||
| Location | Masaryk Circuit, Brno | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 5.403 km (3.357 mi) | ||
| 500 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Mick Doohan |
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| Time | 2:01.585 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider |  Àlex Crivillé |
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| Time | 2:02.335 on lap 22 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |  Max Biaggi |
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| Second | Àlex Crivillé |
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| Third |  Alex Barros |
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| 250 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider | Loris Capirossi |
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| Time | 2:03.974 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Loris Capirossi |
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| Time | 2:04.614 on lap 9 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |  Tetsuya Harada |
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| Second | Loris Capirossi |
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| Third | Marcellino Lucchi |
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| 125 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider | Kazuto Sakata |
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| Time | 2:11.302 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Masao Azuma |
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| Time | 2:10.899 on lap 16 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Marco Melandri |
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| Second | Kazuto Sakata |
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| Third | Lucio Cecchinello |
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The 1998 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 23 August 1998 at the Masaryk Circuit located in Brno, Czech Republic.
500 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Max Biaggi |
Honda | 22 | 45:12.043 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Àlex Crivillé |
Honda | 22 | +0.768 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 9 | Alex Barros |
Honda | 22 | +1.546 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 2 | Tadayuki Okada |
Honda | 22 | +2.235 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 5 | Norick Abe |
Yamaha | 22 | +11.817 | 12 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Sete Gibernau |
Honda | 22 | +11.946 | 16 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | Carlos Checa |
Honda | 22 | +16.317 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 12 |  Jean-Michel Bayle |
Yamaha | 22 | +18.526 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | 55 | Régis Laconi |
Yamaha | 22 | +24.157 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 10 |  Kenny Roberts, Jr. |
Modenas KR3 | 22 | +30.549 | 8 | 6 |
| 11 | 11 |  Simon Crafar |
Yamaha | 22 | +34.563 | 11 | 5 |
| 12 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki |
Suzuki | 22 | +38.113 | 9 | 4 |
| 13 | 28 |  Ralf Waldmann |
Modenas KR3 | 22 | +38.525 | 4 | 3 |
| 14 | 77 |  Eskil Suter |
MuZ | 22 | +46.145 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 19 | John Kocinski |
Honda | 22 | +53.129 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 17 |  Jurgen vd Goorbergh |
Honda | 22 | +54.201 | 15 | |
| 17 | 14 | Juan Borja |
Honda | 22 | +1:22.039 | 18 | |
| 18 | 27 | Katsuaki Fujiwara |
Suzuki | 22 | +1:30.723 | 20 | |
| 19 | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert |
Honda | 22 | +1:33.693 | 19 | |
| 20 | 23 | Matt Wait |
Honda | 22 | +1:33.862 | 23 | |
| 21 | 88 |  Scott Smart |
Honda | 22 | +1:57.956 | 21 | |
| Ret | 1 | Mick Doohan |
Honda | 13 | Retirement | 1 | |
| Ret | 57 | Fabio Carpani |
Honda | 0 | Accident | 22 | |
| DNS | 18 | Garry McCoy |
Honda | Did not start | |||
| Source: [1] | |||||||
250 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada |
Aprilia | 20 | 41:52.318 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi |
Aprilia | 20 | +5.207 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 34 | Marcellino Lucchi |
Aprilia | 20 | +28.254 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams |
TSR-Honda | 20 | +30.432 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 5 | Tohru Ukawa |
Honda | 20 | +30.703 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 6 | Haruchika Aoki |
Honda | 20 | +31.090 | 10 | 10 |
| 7 | 24 | Jason Vincent |
TSR-Honda | 20 | +49.163 | 13 | 9 |
| 8 | 7 | Takeshi Tsujimura |
Yamaha | 20 | +49.284 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro |
TSR-Honda | 20 | +49.398 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 17 | José Luis Cardoso |
Yamaha | 20 | +50.301 | 19 | 6 |
| 11 | 4 | Stefano Perugini |
Honda | 20 | +57.812 | 7 | 5 |
| 12 | 8 | Luis d'Antin |
Yamaha | 20 | +57.996 | 15 | 4 |
| 13 | 21 | Franco Battaini |
Yamaha | 20 | +1:01.297 | 12 | 3 |
| 14 | 12 | Noriyasu Numata |
Suzuki | 20 | +1:10.103 | 9 | 2 |
| 15 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo |
TSR-Honda | 20 | +1:15.633 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt |
Suzuki | 20 | +1:15.721 | 20 | |
| 17 | 25 | Yasumasa Hatakeyama |
Honda | 20 | +1:37.942 | 23 | |
| 18 | 18 | Osamu Miyazaki |
Yamaha | 20 | +1:39.729 | 18 | |
| 19 | 22 | Matthieu Lagrive |
Honda | 20 | +1:39.892 | 24 | |
| 20 | 14 | Davide Bulega |
ERP Honda | 20 | +1:40.228 | 21 | |
| 21 | 88 |  Vladimír Častka |
ERP Honda | 20 | +1:49.466 | 22 | |
| 22 | 89 |  Radomil Rous |
Yamaha | 19 | +1 lap | 26 | |
| Ret | 19 | Olivier Jacque |
Honda | 11 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 27 |  Sebastián Porto |
Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 41 | Federico Gartner |
Aprilia | 8 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 46 | Valentino Rossi |
Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 2 | |
| DNQ | 90 | Lukáš Vavrečka |
Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| DNQ | 91 | Lars Langer |
Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
| Source: [2] | |||||||
125 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | Marco Melandri |
Honda | 19 | 42:05.161 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Kazuto Sakata |
Aprilia | 19 | +0.038 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Lucio Cecchinello |
Honda | 19 | +0.364 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti |
Honda | 19 | +3.745 | 14 | 13 |
| 5 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini |
Honda | 19 | +3.794 | 11 | 11 |
| 6 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent |
Aprilia | 19 | +7.082 | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | 52 | Hiroyuki Kikuchi |
Honda | 19 | +7.144 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli |
Honda | 19 | +7.260 | 9 | 8 |
| 9 | 26 | Ivan Goi |
Aprilia | 19 | +9.179 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 9 | Frédéric Petit |
Honda | 19 | +12.170 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 22 | Steve Jenkner |
Aprilia | 19 | +15.272 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. |
Aprilia | 19 | +33.909 | 20 | 4 |
| 13 | 17 | Enrique Maturana |
Yamaha | 19 | +35.083 | 22 | 3 |
| 14 | 23 | Gino Borsoi |
Aprilia | 19 | +35.333 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 62 | Yoshiaki Katoh |
Yamaha | 19 | +54.524 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 65 | Andrea Iommi |
Honda | 19 | +1:14.415 | 26 | |
| 17 | 16 | Christian Manna |
Yamaha | 19 | +1:30.848 | 24 | |
| 18 | 89 | Igor Kaláb |
Honda | 19 | +2:05.233 | 27 | |
| 19 | 92 | Michal Březina |
Honda | 19 | +2:06.630 | 28 | |
| 20 | 93 | Bohuslav Seifert |
Honda | 18 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| Ret | 20 | Masao Azuma |
Honda | 18 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 3 | Tomomi Manako |
Honda | 15 | Retirement | 2 | |
| Ret | 41 | Youichi Ui |
Yamaha | 14 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš |
Honda | 8 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 5 | Masaki Tokudome |
Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 7 | Emilio Alzamora |
Aprilia | 6 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 91 | Martin Psotný |
Honda | 4 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 59 | Jerónimo Vidal |
Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 14 | Federico Cerroni |
Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 90 | Jakub Smrž |
Honda | 0 | Accident | 25 | |
| Source: [3] | |||||||
References
- ↑ "Grand Prix České republiky – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 23 August 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Grand Prix České republiky – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 23 August 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Grand Prix České republiky – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 23 August 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
| Previous race: 1998 German Grand Prix |
FIM Grand Prix World Championship 1998 season |
Next race: 1998 City of Imola Grand Prix |
| Previous race: 1997 Czech Republic Grand Prix |
Czech Republic Grand Prix | Next race: 1999 Czech Republic Grand Prix |
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