1998 Dutch TT

  1998 Dutch Motorcycle Grand Prix

Race details
Race 7 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	June 25, 1998
Official Name	Rizla Dutch TT
Location	Assen
Course	Permanent racing facility 6.049 km (3.759 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Mick Doohan
Time	2:02.092
Fastest lap
Rider	Mick Doohan
Time	2:02.941
Podium
First	Mick Doohan
Second	Max Biaggi
Third	Simon Crafar
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Loris Capirossi
Time	2:05.567
Fastest lap
Rider	Tetsuya Harada
Time	2:06.452
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Jürgen Fuchs
Third	Haruchika Aoki
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Kazuto Sakata
Time	2:13.411
Fastest lap
Rider	Tomomi Manako
Time	2:14.378
Podium
First	Marco Melandri
Second	Kazuto Sakata
Third	Tomomi Manako

The 1998 Dutch TT was the seventh round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on June 27, 1998 at the TT Circuit Assen located in Assen, Netherlands.

500cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	1	Mick Doohan	Honda	20	41:17.788	1	25
2	6	Max Biaggi	Honda	20	+0.560	4	20
3	11	Simon Crafar	Yamaha	20	+1.151	2	16
4	9	Alex Barros	Honda	20	+5.151	6	13
5	8	Carlos Checa	Honda	20	+13.827	5	11
6	4	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	20	+21.256	9	10
7	3	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki	20	+28.877	8	9
8	2	Tadayuki Okada	Honda	20	+33.544	10	8
9	55	Régis Laconi	Yamaha	20	+44.870	17	7
10	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	20	+48.118	11	6
11	18	Garry McCoy	Honda	20	+1:11.257	15	5
12	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Modenas KR3	20	+1:30.137	13	4
13	23	Matt Wait	Honda	20	+1:39.885	19	3
14	88	Scott Smart	Honda	20	+2:49.856	20	2
15	26	Bernard Garcia	Honda	20	+3:02.687	18	1
Ret	5	Norick Abe	Yamaha	16	Retirement	3
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Honda	16	Retirement	12
Ret	20	Luca Cadalora	Suzuki	9	Accident	7
Ret	14	Juan Borja	Honda	9	Accident	16
Ret	16	Jean-Philippe Ruggia	MuZ	5	Retirement	14
DNS	28	Ralf Waldmann	Modenas KR3
DNS	19	John Kocinski	Honda
DNQ	57	Fabio Carpani	Honda

250cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	18	38:31.905	3	25
2	11	Jürgen Fuchs	Aprilia	18	+19.184	4	20
3	6	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	18	+19.516	5	16
4	8	Luis d'Antin	Yamaha	18	+21.682	21	13
5	5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	18	+21.721	6	11
6	27	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	18	+21.927	9	10
7	7	Takeshi Tsujimura	Yamaha	18	+22.084	10	9
8	24	Jason Vincent	TSR-Honda	18	+27.290	17	8
9	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	18	+33.444	15	7
10	44	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	18	+37.467	11	6
11	12	Noriyasu Numata	Suzuki	18	+42.228	12	5
12	9	Jeremy McWilliams	TSR-Honda	18	+42.659	13	4
13	20	William Costes	Honda	18	+50.841	16	3
14	47	Ivan Clementi	Yamaha	18	+52.029	22	2
15	16	Johan Stigefelt	Suzuki	18	+53.759	20	1
16	25	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	ERP-Honda	18	+1:08.503	19
17	14	Davide Bulega	ERP-Honda	18	+1:08.716	18
18	76	Jarno Janssen	Honda	18	+1:21.462	24
19	75	Maurice Bolwerk	Honda	18	+1:21.546	23
20	78	Rudie Markink	Honda	18	+1:44.511	25
21	77	André Romein	Honda	18	+2:11.041	26
Ret	17	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	12	Accident	14
Ret	65	Loris Capirossi	Aprilia	9	Retirement	1
Ret	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	8	Retirement	2
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Honda	4	Accident	7
Ret	4	Stefano Perugini	Honda	4	Accident	8
DNS	18	Osamu Miyazaki	Yamaha
DNQ	79	Henk van de Lagemaat	Honda
DNQ	41	Federico Gartner	Aprilia

125cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	17	38:27.391	6	25
2	4	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	17	+0.028	1	20
3	3	Tomomi Manako	Honda	17	+9.626	3	16
4	10	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	17	+10.331	8	13
5	5	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	17	+10.410	2	11
6	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	17	+10.425	4	10
7	15	Roberto Locatelli	Honda	17	+10.700	7	9
8	9	Frédéric Petit	Honda	17	+11.417	12	8
9	22	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	17	+14.678	10	7
10	20	Masao Azuma	Honda	17	+24.158	5	6
11	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	17	+25.011	14	5
12	41	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	17	+30.265	13	4
13	52	Hiroyuki Kikuchi	Honda	17	+30.369	15	3
14	26	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	17	+33.345	9	2
15	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	17	+33.527	21	1
16	21	Arnaud Vincent	Honda	17	+33.742	11
17	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Aprilia	17	+36.359	20
18	14	Federico Cerroni	Aprilia	17	+59.159	19
19	17	Enrique Maturana	Yamaha	17	+1:02.676	23
20	59	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	17	+1:02.920	17
21	65	Andrea Iommi	Honda	17	+1:43.557	24
22	74	Hans Koopman	EGA Honda	17	+3:53.297	25
23	78	Wilhelm van Leeuwen	Honda	16	+1 lap	27
24	76	Harold de Haan	Honda	16	+1 lap	28
Ret	62	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	10	Retirement	22
Ret	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	9	Accident	16
Ret	16	Christian Manna	Yamaha	9	Retirement	26
Ret	7	Emilio Alzamora	Aprilia	0	Retirement	18
DNQ	77	Ronnie Timmer	Honda
DNQ	75	Wim Kroegman	Yamaha