1998 City of Imola motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1998 City of Imola motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 6 September 1998 at Imola.

  1998 City of Imola Grand Prix

Race details
Race 11 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	6 September 1998
Official name	Gran Premio Cirio Città di Imola[1]
Location	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.930 km (3.063 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Jean-Michel Bayle Time 1:49.345 Fastest lap Rider Max Biaggi Time 1:49.556 on lap 22 Podium First Mick Doohan Second Àlex Crivillé Third Max Biaggi
250cc
Pole position Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:53.560 Fastest lap Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:52.533 on lap 21 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Loris Capirossi Third Stefano Perugini
125cc
Pole position Rider Marco Melandri Time 1:59.795 Fastest lap Rider Tomomi Manako Time 1:58.880 on lap 15 Podium First Tomomi Manako Second Marco Melandri Third Masao Azuma

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Mick Doohan	Repsol Honda	Honda	25	46:00.092	3	25
2	4	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda	Honda	25	+6.564	6	20
3	6	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Team Kanemoto	Honda	25	+8.721	4	16
4	9	Alex Barros	Honda Gresini	Honda	25	+11.244	2	13
5	12	Jean-Michel Bayle	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	25	+21.672	1	11
6	5	Norick Abe	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	25	+28.407	5	10
7	2	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol Honda	Honda	25	+36.627	9	9
8	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda	Honda	25	+36.876	13	8
9	3	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	25	+37.332	11	7
10	8	Carlos Checa	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	25	+47.677	12	6
11	11	Simon Crafar	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	25	+55.890	15	5
12	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	25	+57.040	7	4
13	19	John Kocinski	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	25	+58.878	8	3
14	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	25	+1:06.104	10	2
15	28	Ralf Waldmann	Marlboro Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	25	+1:18.308	16	1
16	27	Katsuaki Fujiwara	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	25	+1:19.432	19
17	14	Juan Borja	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	25	+1:28.491	18
18	23	Matt Wait	FCC TSR	Honda	25	+1:50.817	20
19	57	Fabio Carpani	Team Polini Inoxmacel	Honda	24	+1 lap	23
Ret	77	Eskil Suter	MuZ Roc RennSport	MuZ	18	Retirement	14
Ret	26	Bernard Garcia	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	16	Retirement	22
Ret	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	15	Retirement	21
Ret	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	12	Retirement	17
Ret	88	Scott Smart	Team Millar Honda Britain	Honda	12	Retirement	24
Ret	43	Paolo Tessari	Team Paton	Paton	7	Retirement	25
Sources: [1][2][3]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	23	43:43.815	5	25
2	65	Loris Capirossi	Aprilia	23	+2.687	3	20
3	4	Stefano Perugini	Honda	23	+4.175	6	16
4	5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	23	+6.524	4	13
5	19	Olivier Jacque	Honda	23	+29.180	2	11
6	6	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	23	+31.615	11	10
7	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	23	+32.948	15	9
8	44	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	23	+33.614	10	8
9	7	Takeshi Tsujimura	Yamaha	23	+35.892	7	7
10	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	23	+39.595	1	6
11	8	Luis d'Antin	Yamaha	23	+53.590	14	5
12	17	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	23	+53.988	19	4
13	21	Franco Battaini	Yamaha	23	+54.686	20	3
14	12	Noriyasu Numata	Suzuki	23	+56.383	12	2
15	24	Jason Vincent	TSR-Honda	23	+1:00.924	13	1
16	14	Davide Bulega	ERP Honda	23	+1:13.181	16
17	45	Diego Giugovaz	Aprilia	23	+1:16.205	21
18	18	Osamu Miyazaki	Yamaha	23	+1:25.369	17
19	48	Igor Antonelli	Aprilia	23	+1:29.514	22
20	25	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	Honda	23	+1:33.769	24
21	16	Johan Stigefelt	Suzuki	23	+1:35.296	23
22	22	Matthieu Lagrive	Honda	23	+1:38.260	25
23	49	Filippo Cotti	Honda	23	+1:42.065	26
24	41	Federico Gartner	Aprilia	22	+1 lap	27
Ret	9	Jeremy McWilliams	TSR-Honda	6	Accident	9
Ret	34	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	1	Accident	8
Ret	27	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	0	Retirement	18
Source: [4]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Tomomi Manako	Honda	21	42:05.831	2	25
2	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	21	+0.087	1	20
3	20	Masao Azuma	Honda	21	+10.394	8	16
4	4	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	21	+10.466	7	13
5	5	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	21	+22.699	4	11
6	41	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	21	+26.133	22	10
7	15	Roberto Locatelli	Honda	21	+26.546	3	9
8	62	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	21	+28.161	12	8
9	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	21	+30.584	23	7
10	26	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	21	+48.516	14	6
11	9	Frédéric Petit	Honda	21	+48.656	17	5
12	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	21	+1:02.010	10	4
13	7	Emilio Alzamora	Aprilia	21	+1:12.085	13	3
14	22	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	21	+1:12.337	11	2
15	49	Andrea Zappa	Honda	21	+1:12.408	18	1
16	17	Enrique Maturana	Yamaha	21	+1:13.006	25
17	48	Max Sabbatani	Honda	21	+1:15.643	21
18	14	Federico Cerroni	Aprilia	21	+1:24.081	20
19	65	Andrea Iommi	Honda	21	+1:33.199	24
Ret	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	17	Accident	6
Ret	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Aprilia	16	Retirement	19
Ret	63	Marco Tresoldi	Honda	14	Accident	27
Ret	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	14	Accident	9
Ret	59	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	10	Retirement	26
Ret	10	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	4	Accident	5
Ret	47	Riccardo Chiarello	Aprilia	2	Retirement	16
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	0	Retirement	15
DNS	52	Hiroyuki Kikuchi	Honda		Did not start
DNS	55	Manuel Poggiali	Honda		Did not start
DNS	16	Christian Manna	Yamaha		Did not start
Source: [5]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded.^[6]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Max Biaggi 189 2 Mick Doohan 185 3 Àlex Crivillé 182 4 Carlos Checa 121 5 Alex Barros 100

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 270 2 Yamaha 149 3 Suzuki 92 4 Modenas KR3 56 5 MuZ 11

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