1998 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

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.

  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[1][2]
Location	Circuito de Jerez
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.423 km (2.748 mi)
500 cc
Pole position Rider Carlos Checa Honda Time 1:43.467 Fastest lap Rider Àlex Crivillé Honda Time 1:44.448 on lap 6 Podium First Àlex Crivillé Honda Second Mick Doohan Honda Third Max Biaggi Honda
250 cc
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Aprilia Time 1:44.431 Fastest lap Rider Loris Capirossi Aprilia Time 1:45.250 on lap 4 Podium First Loris Capirossi Aprilia Second Valentino Rossi Aprilia Third Olivier Jacque Honda
125 cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Honda Time 1:49.281 Fastest lap Rider Tomomi Manako Honda Time 1:49.360 on lap 7 Podium First Kazuto Sakata Aprilia Second Tomomi Manako Honda Third Mirko Giansanti Honda

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

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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