1998 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 14 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||
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| Date | 25 October 1998 | ||
| Official name | GP Marlboro de Argentina | ||
| Location | Buenos Aires | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 4.350 km (2.703 mi) | ||
| 500 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Mick Doohan |
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| Time | 1:44.193 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider |  Tadayuki Okada |
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| Time | 1:44.122 on lap 24 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mick Doohan |
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| Second | Tadayuki Okada |
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| Third |  Alex Barros |
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| 250 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider |  Loris Capirossi |
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| Time | 1:45.568 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Valentino Rossi |
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| Time | 1:45.473 on lap 6 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Valentino Rossi |
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| Second | Loris Capirossi |
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| Third |  Olivier Jacque |
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| 125 cc | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Rider | Roberto Locatelli |
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| Time | 1:50.550 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Rider | Masao Azuma |
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| Time | 1:49.917 on lap 21 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Tomomi Manako |
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| Second | Marco Melandri |
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| Third | Lucio Cecchinello |
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The 1998 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 25 October 1998 at the Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez in Buenos Aires.
This race was known as being the final 500 cc victory for Australian Mick Doohan.
500 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Mick Doohan |
Honda | 27 | 47:07.332 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 2 | Tadayuki Okada |
Honda | 27 | +4.762 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 9 | Alex Barros |
Honda | 27 | +5.590 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 5 | Norick Abe |
Yamaha | 27 | +27.685 | 17 | 13 |
| 5 | 6 | Max Biaggi |
Honda | 27 | +30.254 | 14 | 11 |
| 6 | 55 | Régis Laconi |
Yamaha | 27 | +30.441 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 12 | Jean-Michel Bayle |
Yamaha | 27 | +30.647 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 8 |  Carlos Checa |
Honda | 27 | +30.944 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | 15 | Sete Gibernau |
Honda | 27 | +32.808 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | 19 |  John Kocinski |
Honda | 27 | +41.714 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | 10 | Kenny Roberts, Jr. |
Modenas KR3 | 27 | +46.746 | 11 | 5 |
| 12 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki |
Suzuki | 27 | +48.264 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 11 |  Simon Crafar |
Yamaha | 27 | +1:02.063 | 16 | 3 |
| 14 | 17 |  Jurgen vd Goorbergh |
Honda | 27 | +1:03.255 | 15 | 2 |
| 15 | 28 |  Ralf Waldmann |
Modenas KR3 | 27 | +1:06.271 | 12 | 1 |
| 16 | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert |
Honda | 27 | +1:27.889 | 18 | |
| 17 | 23 | Matt Wait |
Honda | 27 | +1:27.960 | 20 | |
| 18 | 14 | Juan Borja |
Honda | 27 | +1:28.404 | 19 | |
| 19 | 42 | Craig Connell |
Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| 20 | 57 | Fabio Carpani |
Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 23 | |
| 21 | 71 |  Juan Pablo Gianini |
Honda | 26 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| Ret | 4 | Àlex Crivillé |
Honda | 17 | Accident | 7 | |
| Ret | 20 | Luca Cadalora |
MuZ | 13 | Retirement | 9 | |
| DNS | 88 |  Scott Smart |
Honda | 0 | Did not start | 22 | |
| Source: [1] | |||||||
250 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi |
Aprilia | 25 | 44:26.581 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi |
Aprilia | 25 | +5.360 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 19 | Olivier Jacque |
Honda | 25 | +27.096 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 5 | Tohru Ukawa |
Honda | 25 | +27.451 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo |
TSR-Honda | 25 | +30.820 | 16 | 11 |
| 6 | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams |
TSR-Honda | 25 | +41.816 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 12 | Noriyasu Numata |
Suzuki | 25 | +42.555 | 8 | 9 |
| 8 | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt |
Suzuki | 25 | +42.708 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 21 | Franco Battaini |
Yamaha | 25 | +43.148 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro |
TSR-Honda | 25 | +52.505 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 7 | Takeshi Tsujimura |
Yamaha | 25 | +54.131 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 14 | Davide Bulega |
ERP Honda | 25 | +1:07.509 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 45 | Diego Giugovaz |
Aprilia | 25 | +1:12.506 | 18 | 3 |
| 14 | 18 | Osamu Miyazaki |
Yamaha | 25 | +1:35.028 | 17 | 2 |
| 15 | 82 | Woolsey Coulter |
Honda | 25 | +1:37.371 | 21 | 1 |
| 16 | 22 | Matthieu Lagrive |
Honda | 25 | +1:42.817 | 23 | |
| 17 | 41 | Federico Gartner |
Aprilia | 25 | +1:45.353 | 24 | |
| 18 | 97 | Diego Ruabén |
Honda | 24 | +1 lap | 25 | |
| 19 | 96 | Leandro Mulet |
Yamaha | 24 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| 20 | 98 | Gabriel Borgmann |
Yamaha | 24 | +1 lap | 28 | |
| Ret | 31 | Tetsuya Harada |
Aprilia | 24 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 6 | Haruchika Aoki |
Honda | 23 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 25 | Yasumasa Hatakeyama |
Honda | 19 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 8 | Luis d'Antin |
Yamaha | 18 | Accident | 20 | |
| Ret | 27 | Sebastián Porto |
Aprilia | 12 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 17 | José Luis Cardoso |
Yamaha | 11 | Retirement | 10 | |
| Ret | 4 | Stefano Perugini |
Honda | 10 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 95 | Matías Ríos |
Yamaha | 1 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Sources: [2][3] | |||||||
125 cc classification
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Tomomi Manako |
Honda | 23 | 42:43.976 | 8 | 25 |
| 2 | 13 | Marco Melandri |
Honda | 23 | +0.566 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Lucio Cecchinello |
Honda | 23 | +1.137 | 16 | 16 |
| 4 | 20 | Masao Azuma |
Honda | 23 | +1.191 | 10 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Kazuto Sakata |
Aprilia | 23 | +16.111 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti |
Honda | 23 | +16.314 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent |
Aprilia | 23 | +21.921 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | 5 | Masaki Tokudome |
Aprilia | 23 | +22.833 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 2 | Noboru Ueda |
Honda | 23 | +23.597 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini |
Honda | 23 | +23.922 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 26 | Ivan Goi |
Aprilia | 23 | +23.958 | 14 | 5 |
| 12 | 23 | Gino Borsoi |
Aprilia | 23 | +27.543 | 12 | 4 |
| 13 | 9 | Frédéric Petit |
Honda | 23 | +27.720 | 6 | 3 |
| 14 | 62 | Yoshiaki Katoh |
Yamaha | 23 | +27.822 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 41 | Youichi Ui |
Yamaha | 23 | +42.461 | 5 | 1 |
| 16 | 17 | Enrique Maturana |
Yamaha | 23 | +52.756 | 21 | |
| 17 | 22 | Steve Jenkner |
Aprilia | 23 | +54.889 | 20 | |
| 18 | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš |
Honda | 23 | +55.022 | 19 | |
| 19 | 94 | Cristiano Vieira |
Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 26 | |
| 20 | 97 | Sílvio César Zequim |
Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 27 | |
| Ret | 15 | Roberto Locatelli |
Honda | 10 | Accident | 1 | |
| Ret | 16 | Christian Manna |
Yamaha | 7 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 65 | Andrea Iommi |
Honda | 6 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. |
Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 14 | Federico Cerroni |
Aprilia | 5 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 59 | Jerónimo Vidal |
Aprilia | 2 | Retirement | 17 | |
| DNS | 7 | Emilio Alzamora |
Aprilia | 0 | Did not start | 9 | |
| DNQ | 95 | César Barros |
Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| Source: [4] | |||||||
References
- ↑ "GP Marlboro de Argentina – 500cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 25 October 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "GP Marlboro de Argentina – 250cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 25 October 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ↑ "Road Racing Grand Prix World Championship – CDI: Appeal of Loris Capirossi accepted". fim.ch. Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. 6 November 1998. Archived from the original on 9 October 1999. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
Loris Capirossi is reintegrated in the results of the race of the 250 class of the Argentina Grand Prix, in second position.
- ↑ "GP Marlboro de Argentina – 125cc – Race Classification" (PDF). MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 25 October 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
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FIM Grand Prix World Championship 1998 season |
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