1998 German motorcycle Grand Prix

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.

  1998 German 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 Grand Prix Deutschland[1][2]
Location	Sachsenring
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.508 km (2.180 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:27.894 Fastest lap Rider Alex Barros Time 1:28.381 on lap 3 Podium First Mick Doohan Second Max Biaggi Third Àlex Crivillé
250cc
Pole position Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:28.684 Fastest lap Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:28.625 on lap 3 Podium First Tetsuya Harada Second Jeremy McWilliams Third Valentino Rossi
125cc
Pole position Rider Marco Melandri Time 1:30.793 Fastest lap Rider Tomomi Manako Time 1:30.838 on lap 28 Podium First Tomomi Manako Second Arnaud Vincent Third Roberto Locatelli

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Mick Doohan	Repsol Honda	Honda	31	46:00.876	3	25
2	6	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Team Kanemoto	Honda	31	+2.873	1	20
3	4	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda	Honda	31	+11.379	7	16
4	9	Alex Barros	Honda Gresini	Honda	31	+11.533	6	13
5	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	31	+19.093	4	11
6	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	31	+30.087	2	10
7	28	Ralf Waldmann	Marlboro Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	31	+34.881	11	9
8	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	31	+35.033	10	8
9	21	Kyoji Nanba	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	31	+46.078	13	7
10	3	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	31	+48.684	12	6
11	39	Gregorio Lavilla	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	31	+58.019	17	5
12	26	Bernard Garcia	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	31	+1:03.165	19	4
13	77	Eskil Suter	MuZ Roc RennSport	MuZ	31	+1:10.827	14	3
14	23	Matt Wait	FCC TSR	Honda	31	+1:10.941	18	2
15	72	Fernando Cristóbal	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	31	+1:31.896	20	1
16	57	Fabio Carpani	Team Polini Inoxmacel	Honda	30	+1 lap	21
Ret	18	Garry McCoy	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	30	Retirement	15
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda	Honda	29	Retirement	9
Ret	88	Scott Smart	Team Millar Honda Britain	Honda	26	Retirement	16
Ret	11	Simon Crafar	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	11	Accident	5
Ret	5	Norick Abe	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	5	Accident	8
WD	60	Jörg Schöllhorn	Team Zupin	Honda		Withdrew
Source: [3]

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: [4]

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: [5]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded.^[6]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Mick Doohan 160 2 Max Biaggi 148 3 Àlex Crivillé 142 4 Carlos Checa 106 5 Simon Crafar 75

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 220 2 Yamaha 127 3 Suzuki 81 4 Modenas KR3 48 5 MuZ 9

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.