1998 German motorcycle Grand Prix

  1998 German Motorcycle Grand Prix

Race details
Race 9 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	July 17, 1998
Official Name	Polini Motorrad GP Deutschland
Location	Sachsenring
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.7 km (2.299 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Max Biaggi
Time	1:27.894
Fastest lap
Rider	Alex Barros
Time	1:28.381
Podium
First	Mick Doohan
Second	Max Biaggi
Third	Àlex Crivillé
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Tetsuya Harada
Time	1:28.684
Fastest lap
Rider	Tetsuya Harada
Time	1:28.625
Podium
First	Tetsuya Harada
Second	Jeremy McWilliams
Third	Valentino Rossi
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Marco Melandri
Time	1:30.793
Fastest lap
Rider	Tomomi Manako
Time	1:30.838
Podium
First	Tomomi Manako
Second	Arnaud Vincent
Third	Roberto Locatelli

The 1998 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on July 19, 1998 at the Sachsenring.

500cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	1	Mick Doohan	Honda	31	46:00.876	3	25
2	6	Max Biaggi	Honda	31	+2.873	1	20
3	4	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	31	+11.379	7	16
4	9	Alex Barros	Honda	31	+11.533	6	13
5	55	Régis Laconi	Yamaha	31	+19.093	4	11
6	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Modenas KR3	31	+30.087	2	10
7	28	Ralf Waldmann	Modenas KR3	31	+34.881	11	9
8	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	31	+35.033	10	8
9	21	Kyoji Nanba	Yamaha	31	+46.078	13	7
10	3	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki	31	+48.684	12	6
11	39	Gregorio Lavilla	Honda	31	+58.019	17	5
12	26	Bernard Garcia	Honda	39	+1:03.165	19	4
13	77	Eskil Suter	MuZ	39	+1:10.827	14	3
14	72	Matt Wait	Honda	39	+1:10.941	18	2
15	72	Fernando Cristóbal	Honda	39	+1:31.896	20	1
16	57	Fabio Carpani	Honda	30	+1 lap	21
Ret	18	Garry McCoy	Honda	30	Retirement	15
Ret	15	Sete Gibernau	Honda	29	Retirement	9
Ret	88	Scott Smart	Honda	25	Retirement	16
Ret	11	Simon Crafar	Yamaha	11	Accident	5
Ret	5	Norick Abe	Yamaha	5	Accident	8
DNQ	60	Jörg Schöllhorn	Honda

250cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	30	44:43.421	1	25
2	9	Jeremy McWilliams	TSR-Honda	30	+9.033	7	20
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	30	+9.267	4	16
4	65	Loris Capirossi	Aprilia	30	+10.611	2	13
5	24	Jason Vincent	TSR-Honda	30	+38.261	8	11
6	7	Takeshi Tsujimura	Yamaha	30	+43.611	10	10
7	17	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	30	+45.243	13	9
8	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	30	+45.702	16	8
9	12	Noriyasu Numata	Suzuki	30	+49.915	12	7
10	66	Alex Hofmann	Honda	30	+51.523	11	6
11	44	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	30	+54.914	18	5
12	8	Luis d'Antin	Yamaha	30	+1:20.499	17	4
13	14	Davide Bulega	ERP Honda	30	+1:23.418	20	3
14	33	Jamie Robinson	Yamaha	30	+1:23.915	14	2
15	84	Mike Baldinger	Honda	29	+1 lap	24	1
Ret	86	Markus Ober	Honda	13	Accident	21
Ret	85	Mathias Neukirchen	Aprilia	13	Accident	25
Ret	20	William Costes	Honda	10	Retirement	23
Ret	47	Ivan Clementi	Yamaha	9	Accident	19
Ret	16	Johan Stigefelt	Suzuki	6	Accident	15
Ret	27	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	4	Accident	3
Ret	6	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	4	Retirement	9
Ret	4	Stefano Perugini	Honda	3	Accident	5
Ret	5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	3	Accident	6
Ret	41	Federico Gartner	Aprilia	0	Accident	22
Ret	87	Adrian Schmidt	Honda	0	Accident	26
DNS	11	Jürgen Fuchs	Aprilia
DNS	25	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	ERP Honda
DNQ	68	Julien Allemand	Honda

125cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Tomomi Manako	Honda	29	44:37.947	6	25
2	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	29	+16.513	18	20
3	15	Roberto Locatelli	Honda	29	+24.754	9	16
4	52	Hiroyuki Kikuchi	Honda	29	+24.771	11	13
5	7	Emilio Alzamora	Aprilia	29	+25.778	8	11
6	62	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	29	+28.862	16	10
7	4	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	29	+37.703	2	9
8	22	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	29	+39.681	10	8
9	5	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	29	+41.147	7	7
10	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Aprilia	29	+49.449	15	6
11	26	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	29	+54.783	23	5
12	17	Enrique Maturana	Yamaha	29	+54.868	19	4
13	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	29	+55.292	1	3
14	65	Andrea Iommi	Honda	29	+55.350	21	2
15	16	Christian Manna	Yamaha	29	+58.319	25	1
16	85	Klaus Nöhles	Honda	29	+1:09.226	20
17	14	Federico Cerroni	Aprilia	29	+1:17.974	17
18	84	Reinhard Stolz	Honda	29	+1:27.436	24
19	86	Oliver Perschke	Yamaha	29	+1:28.176	27
20	87	Dirk Heidolf	Honda	29	+1:29.205	28
Ret	20	Masao Azuma	Honda	10	Retirement	14
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	9	Accident	4
Ret	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	9	Accident	3
Ret	59	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	8	Accident	22
Ret	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	7	Accident	5
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	7	Accident	12
Ret	88	Maik Stief	Yamaha	6	Retirement	26
Ret	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	3	Accident	13
DNS	9	Frédéric Petit	Honda
DNS	10	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda