1998 German motorcycle Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 9 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||
| Date | 19 July 1998 | ||
| Official name | Polini Motorrad GP Deutschland | ||
| Location | Sachsenring | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 3.508 km (2.180 mi) | ||
| 500 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Max Biaggi |
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| Time | 1:27.894 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider |  Alex Barros |
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| Time | 1:28.381 on lap 3 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |  Mick Doohan |
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| Second | Max Biaggi |
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| Third |  Àlex Crivillé |
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| 250 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Tetsuya Harada |
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| Time | 1:28.684 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Tetsuya Harada |
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| Time | 1:28.625 on lap 3 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Tetsuya Harada |
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| Second |  Jeremy McWilliams |
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| Third | Valentino Rossi |
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| 125 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider | Marco Melandri |
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| Time | 1:30.793 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Tomomi Manako |
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| Time | 1:30.838 on lap 28 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Tomomi Manako |
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| Second |  Arnaud Vincent |
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| Third | Roberto Locatelli |
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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 | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Mick Doohan |
Honda | 31 | 46:00.876 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 6 | Max Biaggi |
Honda | 31 | +2.873 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 4 | Àlex Crivillé |
Honda | 31 | +11.379 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 9 | Alex Barros |
Honda | 31 | +11.533 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 55 | Régis Laconi |
Yamaha | 31 | +19.093 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 10 |  Kenny Roberts, Jr. |
Modenas KR3 | 31 | +30.087 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | 28 |  Ralf Waldmann |
Modenas KR3 | 31 | +34.881 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 17 |  Jurgen vd Goorbergh |
Honda | 31 | +35.033 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 21 | Kyoji Nanba |
Yamaha | 31 | +46.078 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki |
Suzuki | 31 | +48.684 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | 39 | Gregorio Lavilla |
Honda | 31 | +58.019 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 26 | Bernard Garcia |
Honda | 31 | +1:03.165 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 77 |  Eskil Suter |
MuZ | 31 | +1:10.827 | 14 | 3 |
| 14 | 23 | Matt Wait |
Honda | 31 | +1:10.941 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 72 | Fernando Cristóbal |
Honda | 31 | +1:31.896 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 57 | Fabio Carpani |
Honda | 30 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| Ret | 18 | Garry McCoy |
Honda | 30 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 15 | Sete Gibernau |
Honda | 29 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 88 | Scott Smart |
Honda | 26 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 11 |  Simon Crafar |
Yamaha | 11 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 5 | Norick Abe |
Yamaha | 5 | Accident | 8 | |
| WD | 60 | Jörg Schöllhorn |
Honda | Withdrew | |||
| Source: [1] | |||||||
250 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada |
Aprilia | 30 | 44:43.421 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams |
TSR-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 | Jason Vincent |
TSR-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 |
TSR-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 |
TSR-Honda | 30 | +54.914 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 8 | Luis d'Antin |
Yamaha | 30 | +1:20.499 | 17 | 4 |
| 13 | 14 | Davide Bulega |
ERP Honda | 30 | +1:23.418 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 33 | Jamie Robinson |
Yamaha | 30 | +1:23.915 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 84 | Mike Baldinger |
Honda | 29 | +1 lap | 24 | 1 |
| Ret | 86 | Markus Ober |
Honda | 13 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 85 | Matthias Neukirchen |
Aprilia | 13 | Accident | 25 | |
| Ret | 20 | William Costes |
Honda | 10 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 47 | Ivan Clementi |
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 | Federico Gartner |
Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 87 | Adrian Schmidt |
Honda | 0 | Accident | 26 | |
| DNS | 11 | Jürgen Fuchs |
Aprilia | Did not start | |||
| DNS | 25 | Yasumasa Hatakeyama |
ERP Honda | Did not start | |||
| WD | 68 | Julien Allemand |
Honda | Withdrew | |||
| Source: [2] | |||||||
125 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Hiroyuki Kikuchi |
Honda | 29 | +24.771 | 11 | 13 |
| 5 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora |
Aprilia | 29 | +25.778 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 62 | Yoshiaki Katoh |
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 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. |
Aprilia | 29 | +49.449 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 26 | Ivan Goi |
Aprilia | 29 | +54.783 | 23 | 5 |
| 12 | 17 | Enrique Maturana |
Yamaha | 29 | +54.868 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 13 | Marco Melandri |
Honda | 29 | +55.292 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | 65 | Andrea Iommi |
Honda | 29 | +55.350 | 21 | 2 |
| 15 | 16 | Christian Manna |
Yamaha | 29 | +58.319 | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 85 | Klaus Nöhles |
Honda | 29 | +1:09.226 | 20 | |
| 17 | 14 | Federico Cerroni |
Aprilia | 29 | +1:17.974 | 17 | |
| 18 | 84 | Reinhard Stolz |
Honda | 29 | +1:27.436 | 24 | |
| 19 | 86 | Oliver Perschke |
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 | Jerónimo Vidal |
Aprilia | 8 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 23 | Gino Borsoi |
Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš |
Honda | 7 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 88 | Maik Stief |
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: [3] | |||||||
References
- ↑ "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.
| Previous race: 1998 British Grand Prix |
FIM Grand Prix World Championship 1998 season |
Next race: 1998 Czech Republic Grand Prix |
| Previous race: 1997 German Grand Prix |
German Grand Prix | Next race: 1999 German Grand Prix |
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