1998 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1998 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 23 August 1998 at the Masaryk Circuit located in Brno, Czech Republic.

  1998 Czech Republic Grand Prix

Race details
Race 10 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	23 August 1998
Official name	Grand Prix České republiky[1][2]
Location	Brno Circuit
Course	Permanent racing facility 5.403 km (3.357 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Mick Doohan Time 2:01.585 Fastest lap Rider Àlex Crivillé Time 2:02.335 on lap 22 Podium First Max Biaggi Second Àlex Crivillé Third Alex Barros
250cc
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 2:03.974 Fastest lap Rider Loris Capirossi Time 2:04.614 on lap 9 Podium First Tetsuya Harada Second Loris Capirossi Third Marcellino Lucchi
125cc
Pole position Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 2:11.302 Fastest lap Rider Masao Azuma Time 2:10.899 on lap 16 Podium First Marco Melandri Second Kazuto Sakata Third Lucio Cecchinello

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Team Kanemoto	Honda	22	45:12.043	2	25
2	4	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda	Honda	22	+0.768	6	20
3	9	Alex Barros	Honda Gresini	Honda	22	+1.546	5	16
4	2	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol Honda	Honda	22	+2.235	7	13
5	5	Norick Abe	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	22	+11.817	12	11
6	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda	Honda	22	+11.946	16	10
7	8	Carlos Checa	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	22	+16.317	10	9
8	12	Jean-Michel Bayle	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	22	+18.526	3	8
9	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	22	+24.157	13	7
10	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	22	+30.549	8	6
11	11	Simon Crafar	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	22	+34.563	11	5
12	3	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	22	+38.113	9	4
13	28	Ralf Waldmann	Marlboro Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	22	+38.525	4	3
14	77	Eskil Suter	MuZ Roc RennSport	MuZ	22	+46.145	14	2
15	19	John Kocinski	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	22	+53.129	17	1
16	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	22	+54.201	15
17	14	Juan Borja	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	22	+1:22.039	18
18	27	Katsuaki Fujiwara	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	22	+1:30.723	20
19	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	22	+1:33.693	19
20	23	Matt Wait	FCC TSR	Honda	22	+1:33.862	23
21	88	Scott Smart	Team Millar Honda Britain	Honda	22	+1:57.956	21
Ret	1	Mick Doohan	Repsol Honda	Honda	13	Retirement	1
Ret	57	Fabio Carpani	Team Polini Inoxmacel	Honda	0	Accident	22
DNS	18	Garry McCoy	Shell Advance Racing	Honda		Did not start
Sources: [3][4][5]

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	20	41:52.318	4	25
2	65	Loris Capirossi	Aprilia	20	+5.207	1	20
3	34	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	20	+28.254	3	16
4	9	Jeremy McWilliams	TSR-Honda	20	+30.432	6	13
5	5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	20	+30.703	8	11
6	6	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	20	+31.090	10	10
7	24	Jason Vincent	TSR-Honda	20	+49.163	13	9
8	7	Takeshi Tsujimura	Yamaha	20	+49.284	11	8
9	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	20	+49.398	16	7
10	17	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	20	+50.301	19	6
11	4	Stefano Perugini	Honda	20	+57.812	7	5
12	8	Luis d'Antin	Yamaha	20	+57.996	15	4
13	21	Franco Battaini	Yamaha	20	+1:01.297	12	3
14	12	Noriyasu Numata	Suzuki	20	+1:10.103	9	2
15	44	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	20	+1:15.633	17	1
16	16	Johan Stigefelt	Suzuki	20	+1:15.721	20
17	25	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	Honda	20	+1:37.942	23
18	18	Osamu Miyazaki	Yamaha	20	+1:39.729	18
19	22	Matthieu Lagrive	Honda	20	+1:39.892	24
20	14	Davide Bulega	ERP Honda	20	+1:40.228	21
21	88	Vladimír Častka	ERP Honda	20	+1:49.466	22
22	89	Radomil Rous	Yamaha	19	+1 lap	26
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Honda	11	Retirement	5
Ret	27	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	11	Retirement	14
Ret	41	Federico Gartner	Aprilia	8	Retirement	25
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	0	Accident	2
DNQ	90	Lukáš Vavrečka	Honda		Did not qualify
DNQ	91	Lars Langer	Yamaha		Did not qualify
Source: [6]

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	19	42:05.161	7	25
2	4	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	19	+0.038	1	20
3	10	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	19	+0.364	3	16
4	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	19	+3.745	14	13
5	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	19	+3.794	11	11
6	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	19	+7.082	13	10
7	52	Hiroyuki Kikuchi	Honda	19	+7.144	12	9
8	15	Roberto Locatelli	Honda	19	+7.260	9	8
9	26	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	19	+9.179	15	7
10	9	Frédéric Petit	Honda	19	+12.170	16	6
11	22	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	19	+15.272	10	5
12	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Aprilia	19	+33.909	20	4
13	17	Enrique Maturana	Yamaha	19	+35.083	22	3
14	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	19	+35.333	19	2
15	62	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	19	+54.524	17	1
16	65	Andrea Iommi	Honda	19	+1:14.415	26
17	16	Christian Manna	Yamaha	19	+1:30.848	24
18	89	Igor Kaláb	Honda	19	+2:05.233	27
19	92	Michal Březina	Honda	19	+2:06.630	28
20	93	Bohuslav Seifert	Honda	18	+1 lap	30
Ret	20	Masao Azuma	Honda	18	Accident	4
Ret	3	Tomomi Manako	Honda	15	Retirement	2
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	14	Accident	8
Ret	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	8	Retirement	6
Ret	5	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	7	Accident	5
Ret	7	Emilio Alzamora	Aprilia	6	Accident	18
Ret	91	Martin Psotný	Honda	4	Retirement	29
Ret	59	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	2	Accident	23
Ret	14	Federico Cerroni	Aprilia	0	Accident	21
Ret	90	Jakub Smrž	Honda	0	Accident	25
Source: [7]

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round ten has concluded.^[8]

Riders' Championship standings Pos. Rider Points 1 Max Biaggi 173 2 Àlex Crivillé 162 3 Mick Doohan 160 4 Carlos Checa 115 5 Alex Barros 87

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Honda 245 2 Yamaha 138 3 Suzuki 85 4 Modenas KR3 54 5 MuZ 11

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