1998 San Marino Grand Prix

October 2017 F1 1998 Argentine Grand Prix 1998 Spanish Grand Prix Italy San Marino Imola.svg 26 April 1998 4 16 XVIII Gran Premio di San Marino Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy 3.065 4.933 62 189.897 305.609 Sunny, 25 °C David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.973 GBR Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:29.345 48 GER David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes GBR Michael Schumacher Ferrari GER Eddie Irvine Ferrari GBR SMR The 1998 San Marino Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Imola on 26 April 1998. The 62-lap race was the fourth round of the 1998 FIA Formula One World Championship and was won by David Coulthard driving a McLaren-Mercedes. Race summary It was back to business for McLaren in qualifying, with Coulthard outpacing Häkkinen for pole, and Ferrari's Schumacher and Eddie Irvine keeping things neat by qualifying third and fourth. However, the men in red had hoped for better, and had followed Tyrrell's lead in fitting 'side-wings' - x-shaped wings bolted atop the sideboards. But these appendages did not produce enough of a gain to topple the McLarens and, with Jordan, Sauber and Prost also sprouting these peculiar side-wings the sport's governing body voted to ban them the day after the race, as they felt that they would be unsafe if a driver suffered a side-on impact. The race was simplicity itself for Coulthard as he controlled proceedings ahead of Mika Häkkinen, with Schumacher split from Irvine by Jacques Villeneuve's Williams. But on lap 17 Häkkinen retired to the pits, and the garage door was immediately rolled down to conceal his problem. It later proved to be a gearbox failure. Unaware of his teammate's problem, Coulthard motored on ahead of Schumacher until the German emerged from his second stop and started to fly, eating into the Scot's 20-second advantage at a rate of a second per lap. Debris in a sidepod had sent Coulthard's oil cooler temperature soaring, and team boss Ron Dennis kept sprinting from the pit wall to the McLaren garage to check on the telemetry, so that Coulthard could be instructed how much he could afford to ease off to save his engine. Therefore, the Scot could every so often match Schumacher's pace, and he duly recorded the win. Irvine sent the Ferrari fans home happy by taking the final podium place, with the Williams duo of Villeneuve and Frentzen the only other unlapped runners. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Lap Time Gap 1 7 GBR David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.973 2 8 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1:26.075 +0.102 3 3 GER Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:26.437 +0.464 4 4 GBR Eddie Irvine Ferrari 1:26.705 +0.732 5 6 AUT Alexander Wurz Benetton-Playlife 1:27.273 +1.300 6 1 CAN Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Mecachrome 1:27.390 +1.417 7 9 GBR Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 1:27.592 +1.619 8 2 GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Mecachrome 1:27.645 +1.672 9 10 GER Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Mugen-Honda 1:27.866 +1.893 10 5 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Playlife 1:27.937 +1.964 11 15 GBR Johnny Herbert Sauber-Petronas 1:28.111 +2.138 12 14 FRA Jean Alesi Sauber-Petronas 1:28.191 +2.218 13 11 FRA Olivier Panis Prost-Peugeot 1:28.270 +2.297 14 17 FIN Mika Salo Arrows 1:28.798 +2.825 15 21 JPN 1947 Toranosuke Takagi Tyrrell-Ford 1:29.073 +3.100 16 12 ITA Jarno Trulli Prost-Peugeot 1:29.584 +3.611 17 18 BRA Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 1:29.641 +3.668 18 16 BRA Pedro Diniz Arrows 1:29.932 +3.959 19 23 ARG Esteban Tuero Minardi-Ford 1:30.649 +4.676 20 19 DEN Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 1:31.017 +5.044 21 22 JPN 1947 Shinji Nakano Minardi-Ford 1:31.255 +5.282 22 20 BRA Ricardo Rosset Tyrrell-Ford 1:31.482 +5.509107% time: 1:31.991Source:http://www.statsf1.com/en/1998/saint-marin/qualification.aspx San Marino 1998 - Qualifications www.statsf1.com en 15 October 2018 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 7 GBR David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 62 1:34:24.593 1 10 2 3 GER Michael Schumacher Ferrari 62 +4.554 3 6 3 4 GBR Eddie Irvine Ferrari 62 +51.775 4 4 4 1 CAN Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Mecachrome 62 +54.590 6 3 5 2 GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Mecachrome 62 +1:17.476 8 2 6 14 FRA Jean Alesi Sauber-Petronas 61 +1 Lap 12 1 7 10 GER Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Mugen-Honda 60 +2 Laps 9   8 23 ARG Esteban Tuero Minardi-Ford 60 +2 Laps 19   9 17 FIN Mika Salo Arrows 60 +2 Laps 14   10 9 GBR Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 57 Hydraulics 7   11 11 FRA Olivier Panis Prost-Peugeot 56 Engine 13   Ret Retired 20 BRA Ricardo Rosset Tyrrell-Ford 48 Engine 22   Ret Retired 21 JPN 1947 Toranosuke Takagi Tyrrell-Ford 40 Engine 15   Ret Retired 12 ITA Jarno Trulli Prost-Peugeot 34 Throttle 16   Ret Retired 22 JPN 1947 Shinji Nakano Minardi-Ford 27 Engine 21   Ret Retired 16 BRA Pedro Diniz Arrows 18 Engine 18   Ret Retired 8 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 17 Gearbox 2   Ret Retired 5 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Playlife 17 Spun off 10   Ret Retired 6 AUT Alexander Wurz Benetton-Playlife 17 Engine 5   Ret Retired 15 GBR Johnny Herbert Sauber-Petronas 12 Puncture 11   Ret Retired 19 DEN Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 8 Transmission 20   Ret Retired 18 BRA Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 0 Spun off 17  Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1998/167/ 1998 San Marino Grand Prix formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20141205004714/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1998/167/ 5 December 2014 24 December 2015 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 FIN Mika Häkkinen 26 2 GBR David Coulthard 23 3 GER Michael Schumacher 20 4 GBR Eddie Irvine 11 5 GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen 8Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1998/saint-marin/championnat.aspx San Marino 1998 - Championship www.statsf1.com 20 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR McLaren-Mercedes 49 2 ITA Ferrari 31 3 GBR Williams-Mecachrome 13 4 ITA Benetton-Playlife 7 5 SUI Sauber-Petronas 4Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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