1998 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

1998 Spanish Grand Prix
Race details
Race 3 of 14 races in the; 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	3 May 1998
Official name	Gran Premio Marlboro de España
Location	Circuito de Jerez
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.423 km (2.748 mi);
500cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Carlos Checa
Time	1:43.467
Fastest lap
Rider	Àlex Crivillé
Time	1:44.448 on lap 6
Podium
First	Àlex Crivillé
Second	Mick Doohan
Third	Max Biaggi
250cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Loris Capirossi
Time	1:44.431
Fastest lap
Rider	Loris Capirossi
Time	1:45.250 on lap 4
Podium
First	Loris Capirossi
Second	Valentino Rossi
Third	Olivier Jacque
125cc
Rider
Pole position
Rider	Roberto Locatelli
Time	1:49.281
Fastest lap
Rider	Tomomi Manako
Time	1:49.360 on lap 7
Podium
First	Kazuto Sakata
Second	Tomomi Manako
Third	Mirko Giansanti

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]

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Max Biaggi	57
2	Àlex Crivillé	51
3	Mick Doohan	45
4	Carlos Checa	41
5	Tadayuki Okada	29

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	75
2	Yamaha	35
3	Suzuki	28
4	Modenas KR3	19
5	MuZ	4

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.

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[1] "1998 Spanish MotoGP". Motorsportmagazine.com. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

[2] Mitchell, Malcolm. "Jerez Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

[3] "1998 Spanish MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.

[4] "OFFICIAL 500cc REPORT" (PDF).

[5] "motogp.com · SPANISH GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1998". www.motogp.com.

[6] "Results" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 1998. Retrieved 2019-08-20.

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