1998 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix explained

The 1998 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth race of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 17 May 1998 at the Mugello Circuit.

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Mick Doohan	Repsol Honda	Honda	23	43:55.307	1	25
2	6	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Team Kanemoto	Honda	23	+5.395	3	20
3	4	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda	Honda	23	+13.141	5	16
4	8	Carlos Checa	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	23	+19.647	4	13
5	19	John Kocinski	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	23	+19.826	6	11
6	5	Norick Abe	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	23	+21.881	7	10
7	11	Simon Crafar	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+22.626	11	9
8	3	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	23	+24.235	8	8
9	9	Alex Barros	Honda Gresini	Honda	23	+27.943	2	7
10	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	23	+40.767	10	6
11	28	Ralf Waldmann	Marlboro Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	23	+47.331	19	5
12	21	Kyoji Nanba	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	23	+59.623	16	4
13	18	Garry McCoy	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	23	+1:04.004	9	3
14	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda	Honda	23	+1:09.319	14	2
15	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Repsol Honda	Honda	23	+1:14.294	17	1
16	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	23	+1:15.781	18
17	25	Yukio Kagayama	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	23	+1:16.909	12
18	77	Eskil Suter	MuZ Roc RennSport	MuZ	23	+2:02.092	20
19	88	Scott Smart	Team Millar Honda Britain	Honda	22	+1 lap	22
20	57	Fabio Carpani	Team Polini Inoxmacel	Honda	22	+1 lap	24
Ret	63	Gianmaria Liverani	Team Paton	Paton	21	Retirement	23
Ret	14	Juan Borja	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	15	Retirement	15
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	11	Retirement	13
Ret	23	Matt Wait	FCC TSR	Honda	0	Accident	21
DNQ	2	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol Honda	Honda		Did not qualify
Sources: [2] [3]

250 cc classification

The race was held in two parts as rain caused its interruption; aggregate times from the two heats determined the final result.^[4]

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	34	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	21	40:59.049	3	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	21	+5.701	4	20
3	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	21	+7.625	1	16
4	65	Loris Capirossi	Aprilia	21	+10.029	2	13
5	4	Stefano Perugini	Honda	21	+47.830	13	11
6	6	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	21	+48.205	12	10
7	5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	21	+49.376	11	9
8	17	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	21	+50.080	8	8
9	8	Luis d'Antin	Yamaha	21	+50.161	16	7
10	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	21	+52.738	15	6
11	21	Franco Battaini	Yamaha	21	+54.241	17	5
12	7	Takeshi Tsujimura	Yamaha	21	+54.306	18	4
13	25	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	ERP Honda	21	+1:50.752	23	3
14	14	Davide Bulega	Honda	21	+1:53.990	22	2
15	41	Federico Gartner	Aprilia	21	+2:22.611	24	1
16	20	William Costes	Honda	20	+1 lap	21
Ret	18	Osamu Miyazaki	Yamaha	19	Accident	19
Ret	9	Jeremy McWilliams	TSR-Honda	19	Retirement	7
Ret	27	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	14	Accident	10
Ret	12	Noriyasu Numata	Suzuki	11	Retirement	14
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Honda	10	Retirement	6
Ret	24	Jason Vincent	TSR-Honda	6	Retirement	20
Ret	11	Jürgen Fuchs	Aprilia	2	Retirement	5
Ret	44	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	1	Accident	9
DNS	16	Johan Stigefelt	Suzuki		Did not start
Source: [5]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Tomomi Manako	Honda	20	40:53.607	3	25
2	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	20	+0.044	8	20
3	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	20	+0.201	5	16
4	4	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	20	+3.152	2	13
5	41	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	20	+8.162	7	11
6	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	20	+8.195	14	10
7	2	Noboru Ueda	Honda	20	+10.097	1	9
8	9	Frédéric Petit	Honda	20	+12.745	11	8
9	20	Masao Azuma	Honda	20	+12.757	13	7
10	5	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	20	+24.284	10	6
11	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	20	+24.388	18	5
12	18	Paolo Tessari	Aprilia	20	+24.415	6	4
13	26	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	20	+25.393	15	3
14	22	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	20	+31.066	16	2
15	64	Claudio Cipriani	Aprilia	20	+49.419	19	1
16	59	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	20	+52.007	21
17	7	Emilio Alzamora	Aprilia	20	+1:01.180	20
18	17	Enrique Maturana	Yamaha	20	+1:01.801	24
19	62	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	20	+1:04.438	25
20	63	Marco Tresoldi	Honda	20	+1:12.177	23
Ret	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	19	Accident	9
Ret	10	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	19	Accident	12
Ret	65	Andrea Iommi	Honda	14	Retirement	27
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	11	Retirement	22
Ret	16	Christian Manna	Yamaha	5	Accident	26
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Honda	4	Retirement	4
Ret	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Aprilia	4	Retirement	17
Source: [6]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round four has concluded.^[7]

Riders' Championship standings

	Rider	Points
1	Max Biaggi	77
2		70
3		67
4	Carlos Checa	54
5	John Kocinski	30

Constructors' Championship standings

	Constructor	Points
1		100
2	Yamaha	45
3	Suzuki	36
4	Modenas KR3	24
5	MuZ	4

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1998 Italian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database. 13 June 2017.
2. Web site: Gran Premio Q8 d'Italia – 500cc – Race Classification. MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 May 1998. 24 May 2016.
3. Web site: motogp.com · ITALIAN GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1998. www.motogp.com.
4. News: Mondiale. Il Gran Premio d'Italia scopre Marco Melandri, campione baby, protagonista nella 125 L'Italmoto si ritrova e trionfa al Mugello Nella 250 Lucchi guida l'Aprilia al poker 500: Biaggi cede a Doohan ma resta leader. ricerca.gelocal.it. Il Tirreno. 18 May 1998. 24 May 2016. Italian. 24 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160624073237/http://ricerca.gelocal.it/iltirreno/archivio/iltirreno/1998/05/18/LS101.html. dead.
5. Web site: Gran Premio Q8 d'Italia – 250cc – Race Classification. MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 May 1998. 24 May 2016.
6. Web site: Gran Premio Q8 d'Italia – 125cc – Race Classification. MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 May 1998. 24 May 2016.
7. Web site: Results . 1998 . resources.motogp.com . PDF. 2019-08-20.