1998 British motorcycle Grand Prix

  1998 British Grand Prix

Race details
Race 8 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	5 July 1998
Official name	British Grand Prix
Location	Donington Park
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.023 km (2.500 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Simon Crafar Time 1:32.128 Fastest lap Rider Simon Crafar Time 1:32.661 on lap 14 Podium First Simon Crafar Second Mick Doohan Third Norick Abe
250cc
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:34.085 Fastest lap Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:34.188 on lap 26 Podium First Loris Capirossi Second Tetsuya Harada Third Stefano Perugini
125cc
Pole position Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 1:39.294 Fastest lap Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 1:39.465 on lap 7 Podium First Kazuto Sakata Second Mirko Giansanti Third Youichi Ui

The 1998 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 5 July 1998 at Donington Park. In the 125cc class this race was Kazuto Sakata’s last victory in his career

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	11	Simon Crafar	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	46:45.662	1	25
2	1	Mick Doohan	Repsol Honda	Honda	30	+11.530	2	20
3	5	Norick Abe	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	30	+17.924	4	16
4	4	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda	Honda	30	+22.933	5	13
5	9	Alex Barros	Honda Gresini	Honda	30	+23.430	7	11
6	6	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Team Kanemoto	Honda	30	+35.214	3	10
7	3	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	30	+53.997	8	9
8	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	+1:08.211	9	8
9	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	30	+1:39.256	12	7
10	88	Scott Smart	Team Millar Honda Britain	Honda	29	+1 lap	13	6
11	26	Bernard Garcia	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	29	+1 lap	16	5
12	68	John McGuinness	Team Vimto Honda / Paul Bird	Honda	29	+1 lap	17	4
13	18	Garry McCoy	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	29	+1 lap	11	3
14	72	Fernando Cristóbal	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	29	+1 lap	18	2
15	57	Fabio Carpani	Team Polini Inoxmacel	Honda	28	+2 laps	19	1
Ret	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	27	Retirement	6
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda	Honda	20	Accident	10
Ret	77	Eskil Suter	MuZ Roc RennSport	MuZ	11	Retirement	14
Ret	23	Matt Wait	FCC TSR	Honda	9	Retirement	15
DNS	14	Juan Borja	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda		Did not start
WD	8	Carlos Checa	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda		Withdrew
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	65	Loris Capirossi	Aprilia	27	42:55.085	1	25
2	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	27	+5.682	3	20
3	4	Stefano Perugini	Honda	27	+38.003	5	16
4	5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	27	+38.349	4	13
5	6	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	27	+38.461	7	11
6	24	Jason Vincent	TSR-Honda	27	+39.084	10	10
7	9	Jeremy McWilliams	TSR-Honda	27	+51.804	11	9
8	7	Takeshi Tsujimura	Yamaha	27	+58.946	8	8
9	8	Luis d'Antin	Yamaha	27	+1:18.487	14	7
10	17	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	27	+1:19.532	12	6
11	12	Noriyasu Numata	Suzuki	27	+1:24.101	13	5
12	44	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	27	+1:25.956	21	4
13	16	Johan Stigefelt	Suzuki	27	+1:26.887	15	3
14	20	William Costes	Honda	27	+1:29.510	16	2
15	25	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	ERP Honda	27	+1:35.487	17	1
16	33	Jamie Robinson	Yamaha	27	+1:38.052	18
17	68	Julien Allemand	Honda	26	+1 lap	22
18	83	Shane Norval	Honda	26	+1 lap	25
Ret	40	Gary May	Aprilia	24	Retirement	23
Ret	82	Woolsey Coulter	Honda	11	Retirement	19
Ret	80	Paul Jones	Aprilia	11	Accident	24
Ret	11	Jürgen Fuchs	Aprilia	4	Accident	9
Ret	47	Ivan Clementi	Yamaha	4	Retirement	20
Ret	81	Callum Ramsay	Honda	3	Retirement	26
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	2	Accident	2
DNS	27	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	0	Not finished warm-up lap	6
DNS	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda		Did not start
DNS	14	Davide Bulega	ERP Honda		Did not start
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	4	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	26	43:48.777	1	25
2	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	26	+0.431	5	20
3	41	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	26	+4.600	2	16
4	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	26	+5.197	6	13
5	5	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	26	+5.598	10	11
6	10	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	26	+6.517	13	10
7	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	26	+20.153	11	9
8	9	Frédéric Petit	Honda	26	+22.334	7	8
9	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	26	+31.971	12	7
10	26	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	26	+37.432	18	6
11	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	26	+39.361	17	5
12	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Aprilia	26	+39.559	14	4
13	14	Federico Cerroni	Aprilia	26	+43.031	22	3
14	7	Emilio Alzamora	Aprilia	26	+43.714	21	2
15	52	Hiroyuki Kikuchi	Honda	26	+44.370	16	1
16	17	Enrique Maturana	Yamaha	26	+44.476	19
17	80	Leon Haslam	Honda	26	+1:21.216	28
18	65	Andrea Iommi	Honda	26	+1:24.783	23
Ret	81	Chris Palmer	Honda	22	Retirement	27
Ret	22	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	20	Accident	8
Ret	82	John Pearson	Honda	14	Retirement	26
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	10	Retirement	9
Ret	3	Tomomi Manako	Honda	8	Accident	3
Ret	59	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	6	Accident	24
Ret	16	Christian Manna	Yamaha	5	Accident	25
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Honda	4	Accident	4
Ret	62	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	1	Retirement	15
Ret	20	Masao Azuma	Honda	1	Retirement	20
Ret	83	David Mateer	Honda	0	Retirement	29
Source:

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eight has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Mick Doohan	135
2	Max Biaggi	128
3	Àlex Crivillé	126
4	Carlos Checa	106
5	Simon Crafar	75

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	195
2	Yamaha	116
3	Suzuki	75
4	Modenas KR3	38
5	MuZ	6

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