1998 French motorcycle Grand Prix
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| Race 5 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 31 May 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Grand Prix de France Moto[1][2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Circuit Paul Ricard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1998 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 31 May 1998 at Le Castellet.
500 cc classification
[edit]| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 4 |  Àlex Crivillé | Repsol Honda | Honda | 31 | 42:41.128 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 1 |  Mick Doohan | Repsol Honda | Honda | 31 | +0.283 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 8 | Carlos Checa | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 31 | +0.498 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 19 |  John Kocinski | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 31 | +6.888 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 |  Max Biaggi | Marlboro Team Kanemoto | Honda | 31 | +10.447 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 20 | Luca Cadalora | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 31 | +16.305 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 5 |  Norick Abe | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 31 | +16.791 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 31 | +17.041 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 11 |  Simon Crafar | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 31 | +20.553 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Repsol Honda | Honda | 31 | +23.754 | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | 55 |  Régis Laconi | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 31 | +37.553 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 28 |  Ralf Waldmann | Marlboro Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 31 | +43.819 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 10 | Kenny Roberts, Jr. | Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 31 | +48.079 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 14 | Juan Borja | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 31 | +51.451 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 17 |  Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 31 | +1:03.343 | 16 | 1 |
| 16 | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert | Tecmas Honda Elf | Honda | 31 | +1:14.072 | 18 | |
| 17 | 18 | Garry McCoy | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 31 | +1:23.072 | 19 | |
| 18 | 23 | Matt Wait | FCC TSR | Honda | 30 | +1 lap | 20 | |
| 19 | 57 | Fabio Carpani | Team Polini Inoxmacel | Honda | 30 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| Ret | 9 |  Alex Barros | Honda Gresini | Honda | 22 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 88 |  Scott Smart | Team Millar Honda Britain | Honda | 12 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 77 |  Eskil Suter | MuZ Roc RennSport | MuZ | 1 | Accident | 14 | |
| DNS | 25 | Yukio Kagayama | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | Did not start | |||
| Sources: [4][5][6] | ||||||||
250 cc classification
[edit]| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 29 | 40:59.018 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Aprilia | 29 | +0.631 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Aprilia | 29 | +14.406 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Honda | 29 | +27.017 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Stefano Perugini | Honda | 29 | +28.024 | 11 | 11 |
| 6 | 6 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 29 | +28.045 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams | TSR-Honda | 29 | +36.228 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 8 | Luis d'Antin | Yamaha | 29 | +49.849 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 7 | Takeshi Tsujimura | Yamaha | 29 | +50.216 | 14 | 7 |
| 10 | 24 | Jason Vincent | TSR-Honda | 29 | +51.672 | 13 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Yamaha | 29 | +53.376 | 19 | 5 |
| 12 | 11 | Jürgen Fuchs | Aprilia | 29 | +1:01.689 | 7 | 4 |
| 13 | 17 | José Luis Cardoso | Yamaha | 29 | +1:14.169 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | TSR-Honda | 29 | +1:18.169 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 68 | Julien Allemand | Honda | 28 | +1 lap | 24 | 1 |
| 16 | 14 | Davide Bulega | ERP Honda | 28 | +1 lap | 23 | |
| 17 | 69 | Vincent Philippe | Honda | 28 | +1 lap | 26 | |
| 18 | 70 | Franck Poulle | Honda | 28 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| Ret | 71 | Hervé Mora | Aprilia | 24 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 41 |  Federico Gartner | Aprilia | 21 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 12 | Noriyasu Numata | Suzuki | 17 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 20 | William Costes | Honda | 13 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | TSR-Honda | 11 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 5 | Tohru Ukawa | Honda | 8 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 27 | Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | 5 | Retirement | 8 | |
| Ret | 18 | Osamu Miyazaki | Yamaha | 4 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 25 | Yasumasa Hatakeyama | ERP Honda | 4 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt | Suzuki | 1 | Retirement | 22 | |
| DNS | 67 | Matthieu Lagrive | Honda | Did not start | |||
| Source: [7] | |||||||
125 cc classification
[edit]| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 4 | Kazuto Sakata | Aprilia | 27 | 40:57.583 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 13 | Marco Melandri | Honda | 27 | +0.292 | 12 | 20 |
| 3 | 20 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 27 | +0.393 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Honda | 27 | +3.314 | 11 | 13 |
| 5 | 10 | Lucio Cecchinello | Honda | 27 | +4.057 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 9 | Frédéric Petit | Honda | 27 | +4.824 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 22 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 27 | +10.041 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | 5 | Masaki Tokudome | Aprilia | 27 | +14.660 | 18 | 8 |
| 9 | 26 | Ivan Goi | Aprilia | 27 | +28.373 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 62 | Yoshiaki Katoh | Yamaha | 27 | +32.660 | 23 | 6 |
| 11 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Yamaha | 27 | +35.533 | 7 | 5 |
| 12 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 27 | +35.617 | 10 | 4 |
| 13 | 59 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 27 | +48.609 | 21 | 3 |
| 14 | 17 | Enrique Maturana | Yamaha | 27 | +51.162 | 20 | 2 |
| 15 | 18 | Paolo Tessari | Aprilia | 27 | +57.049 | 14 | 1 |
| 16 | 65 | Andrea Iommi | Honda | 27 | +1:24.700 | 24 | |
| 17 | 67 | Randy de Puniet | Honda | 27 | +1:29.236 | 27 | |
| 18 | 69 | Jimmy Petit | Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| Ret | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Aprilia | 18 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Ret | 3 | Tomomi Manako | Honda | 17 | Retirement | 3 | |
| Ret | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. | Aprilia | 17 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 13 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 68 | Nicolas Dussauge | Honda | 13 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 16 | Christian Manna | Yamaha | 11 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 2 | Noboru Ueda | Honda | 6 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Honda | 6 | Accident | 16 | |
| Ret | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 5 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret | 25 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 15 | |
| Source: [8] | |||||||
Championship standings after the race (500cc)
[edit]Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.[9]
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
[edit]- ^ "Grand Prix uitslagen en bijzonderheden 1998". Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ "1998 500cc Class (FIM Grand Prix World Championship) Programmes | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
- ^ "Paul Ricard | The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". www.progcovers.com.
- ^ "1998 French MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database". 13 June 2017.
- ^ "Grand Prix de France – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 31 May 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ^ "motogp.com · FRENCH GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1998". www.motogp.com.
- ^ "Grand Prix de France – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 31 May 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ^ "Grand Prix de France – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 31 May 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). resources.motogp.com. 1998. Retrieved 2019-08-20.