1998 Madrid motorcycle Grand Prix

  1998 Madrid Motorcycle Grand Prix

Race details
Race 6 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	June 12, 1998
Official Name	GP Comunidad de Madrid
Location	Circuito del Jarama, Madrid
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.404 km (2.115 mi)
500 cc
Pole position
Rider	Mick Doohan
Time	1:32.493
Fastest lap
Rider	Carlos Checa
Time	1:33.617
Podium
First	Carlos Checa
Second	Norick Abe
Third	Sete Gibernau
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Loris Capirossi
Time	1:34.382
Fastest lap
Rider	Tetsuya Harada
Time	1:35.012
Podium
First	Tetsuya Harada
Second	Tohru Ukawa
Third	Loris Capirossi
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Kazuto Sakata
Time	1:38.952
Fastest lap
Rider	Kazuto Sakata
Time	1:39.330
Podium
First	Lucio Cecchinello
Second	Marco Melandri
Third	Hiroyuki Kikuchi

The 1998 Madrid motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on June 14, 1998 at the Circuito Permanente del Jarama.

500cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	8	Carlos Checa	Honda	30	47:21.513	3	25
2	5	Norick Abe	Yamaha	30	+0.220	8	20
3	15	Sete Gibernau	Honda	30	+1.886	14	16
4	3	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki	30	+5.206	9	13
5	4	Àlex Crivillé	Honda	30	+11.165	4	11
6	6	Max Biaggi	Honda	30	+11.579	10	10
7	55	Régis Laconi	Yamaha	30	+11.711	5	9
8	11	Simon Crafar	Yamaha	30	+32.658	6	8
9	9	Alex Barros	Honda	30	+36.226	13	7
10	28	Ralf Waldmann	Modenas KR3	30	+55.342	11	6
11	18	Garry McCoy	Honda	30	+56.938	16	5
12	88	Scott Smart	Honda	30	+1:22.806	18	4
13	23	Matt Wait	Honda	30	+1:26.677	17	3
14	77	Eskil Suter	MuZ	30	+1 Lap	19	2
15	72	Fernando Cristóbal	Honda	29	+1 Lap	20	1
16	57	Fabio Carpani	Honda	29	+1 Lap	21
Ret	20	Luca Cadalora	Yamaha	26	Retirement	2
Ret	17	Jurgen vd Goorbergh	Honda	20	Retirement	12
Ret	14	Juan Borja	Honda	15	Retirement	15
Ret	1	Mick Doohan	Honda	0	Accident	1
Ret	19	John Kocinski	Honda	0	Accident	7
DNQ	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Honda
DNQ	10	Kenny Roberts, Jr.	Modenas KR3

250cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	28	44:44.553	2	25
2	5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	28	+8.738	3	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	Aprilia	28	+15.978	1	16
4	11	Jürgen Fuchs	Aprilia	28	+22.545	6	13
5	17	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	28	+24.444	10	11
6	8	Luis d'Antin	Yamaha	28	+33.716	9	10
7	7	Takeshi Tsujimura	Yamaha	28	+33.791	18	9
8	24	Jason Vincent	TSR-Honda	28	+46.342	11	8
9	9	Jeremy McWilliams	TSR-Honda	28	+50.206	7	7
10	44	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	28	+51.016	16	6
11	47	Ivan Clementi	Yamaha	28	+1:04.474	21	5
12	16	Johan Stigefelt	Suzuki	28	+1:11.969	19	4
13	25	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	ERP-Honda	28	+1:30.205	14	3
14	14	Davide Bulega	ERP-Honda	27	+1 lap	22	2
15	59	Ismael Bonilla	Honda	27	+1 lap	24	1
16	41	Federico Gartner	Aprilia	27	+1 lap	25
Ret	6	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	27	Accident	8
Ret	27	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	14	Retirement	17
Ret	4	Stefano Perugini	Honda	12	Retirement	12
Ret	20	William Costes	Honda	12	Retirement	20
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	4	Retirement	4
Ret	12	Noriyasu Numata	Suzuki	3	Retirement	13
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Honda	2	Accident	5
Ret	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	0	Accident	15
Ret	73	Alex Debón	Honda	0	Accident	23
DNS	21	Franco Battaini	Yamaha
DNQ	72	José David de Gea	Yamaha

125cc classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	10	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	26	43:28.423	8	25
2	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	26	+9.173	3	20
3	52	Hiroyuki Kikuchi	Honda	26	+9.317	11	16
4	4	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	26	+17.268	1	13
5	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	26	+19.417	12	11
6	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Aprilia	26	+19.511	16	10
7	41	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	26	+21.010	19	9
8	9	Frédéric Petit	Honda	26	+23.034	5	8
9	5	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	26	+23.066	15	7
10	22	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	26	+23.552	18	6
11	62	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	26	+26.762	21	5
12	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	26	+31.484	20	4
13	58	Álvaro Molina	Honda	26	+41.584	23	3
14	60	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	+42.512	22	2
15	17	Enrique Maturana	Yamaha	26	+50.521	27	1
16	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	26	+55.673	14
17	71	Josep Sarda	Honda	26	+59.576	26
18	65	Andrea Iommi	Honda	26	+1:10.446	28
19	73	Iván Martínez	Aprilia	26	+1:33.316	24
Ret	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	24	Accident	7
Ret	3	Tomomi Manako	Honda	24	Accident	9
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Honda	20	Retirement	4
Ret	59	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	18	Accident	17
Ret	7	Emilio Alzamora	Aprilia	17	Retirement	2
Ret	26	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	15	Retirement	13
Ret	14	Federico Cerroni	Aprilia	14	Accident	25
Ret	20	Masao Azuma	Honda	13	Accident	6
Ret	16	Christian Manna	Yamaha	10	Retirement	29
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	2	Accident	10
DNS	72	Sebastián Perelló	Honda