1998 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix

Argentine Argentina Gran Premio Marlboro de Argentinahttps://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1998-argentinian-motogp 1998 Argentinian MotoGP - Motor Sport Magazine Database 13 June 2017 Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez 2.703 4.350 14 14 25 October 1998 Autódromo Gálvez moto.svg Mick Doohan Australia 1:44.193 Tadayuki Okada Japan 1:44.122 on lap 24 Mick Doohan Australia Tadayuki Okada Japan Alex Barros Brazil Loris Capirossi Italy 1:45.568 Valentino Rossi Italy 1:45.473 on lap 6 Valentino Rossi Italy Loris Capirossi Italy Olivier Jacque France Roberto Locatelli Italy 1:50.550 Masao Azuma Japan 1:49.917 on lap 21 Tomomi Manako Japan Marco Melandri Italy Lucio Cecchinello Italy The 1998 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 25 October 1998 at the Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez in Buenos Aires. The 500cc race was known as being the final 500 cc victory for Australian Mick Doohan, while the 250cc race, won by Valentino Rossi saw a controversial title decider: on the final turn of the race, race and championship leader Tetsuya Harada was struck from behind by teammate and championship rival Loris Capirossi, who ultimately clinched the championship on appeal.https://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/motogp/2015/october/mcn-plus---eyewitness-capirex-v-harada/ Watch, read, decide: the most controversial last-corner clash ever motorcyclenews.com 21 May 2021 500 cc classification Pos. No. Rider Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 AUS Mick Doohan Repsol Honda Honda 27 47:07.332 1 25 2 2 JPN Tadayuki Okada Repsol Honda Honda 27 +4.762 2 20 3 9 BRA Alex Barros Honda Gresini Honda 27 +5.590 8 16 4 5 JPN Norick Abe Yamaha Team Rainey Yamaha 27 +27.685 17 13 5 6 ITA Max Biaggi Marlboro Team Kanemoto Honda 27 +30.254 14 11 6 55 FRA Régis Laconi Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 27 +30.441 5 10 7 12 FRA Jean-Michel Bayle Yamaha Team Rainey Yamaha 27 +30.647 6 9 8 8 ESP Carlos Checa Movistar Honda Pons Honda 27 +30.944 3 8 9 15 ESP Sete Gibernau Repsol Honda Honda 27 +32.808 4 7 10 19 USA John Kocinski Movistar Honda Pons Honda 27 +41.714 10 6 11 10 USA Kenny Roberts Jr. Team Roberts Modenas KR3 27 +46.746 11 5 12 3 JPN Nobuatsu Aoki Suzuki Grand Prix Team Suzuki 27 +48.264 13 4 13 11 NZL Simon Crafar Red Bull Yamaha WCM Yamaha 27 +1:02.063 16 3 14 17 NLD Jurgen van den Goorbergh Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team Honda 27 +1:03.255 15 2 15 28 DEU Ralf Waldmann Marlboro Team Roberts Modenas KR3 27 +1:06.271 12 1 16 22 FRA Sébastien Gimbert Tecmas Honda Elf Honda 27 +1:27.889 18 17 23 USA Matt Wait FCC TSR Honda 27 +1:27.960 20 18 14 ESP Juan Borja Shell Advance Racing Honda 27 +1:28.404 19 19 42 AUS Craig Connell Shell Advance Racing Honda 26 +1 lap 21 20 57 ITA Fabio Carpani Team Polini Inoxmacel Honda 26 +1 lap 23 21 71 ARG Juan Pablo Gianini Shell Advance Racing Honda 26 +1 lap 24 Ret 4 ESP Àlex Crivillé Repsol Honda Honda 17 Accident 7 Ret 20 ITA Luca Cadalora MuZ Roc RennSport MuZ 13 Retirement 9 DNS 88 GBR Scott Smart Team Millar Honda Britain Honda 0 Did not start 22 Sources: https://resources.motogp.com/files/results/1998/500cc/ARG/RAC/classification.pdf GP Marlboro de Argentina – 500cc – Race Classification MotoGP.com Dorna Sports 25 October 1998 24 May 2016http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/1998/ARG/500cc/RAC motogp.com · ARGENTINIAN GRAND PRIX · 500cc Race Classification 1998 www.motogp.com 2018-07-23 2018-07-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20180723182343/http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/1998/ARG/500cc/RAC dead 250 cc classification Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 46 ITA Valentino Rossi Aprilia 25 44:26.581 3 25 2 65 ITA Loris Capirossi Aprilia 25 +5.360 1 20 3 19 FRA Olivier Jacque Honda 25 +27.096 2 16 4 5 JPN Tohru Ukawa Honda 25 +27.451 6 13 5 44 ITA Roberto Rolfo TSR-Honda 25 +30.820 16 11 6 9 GBR Jeremy McWilliams TSR-Honda 25 +41.816 9 10 7 12 JPN Noriyasu Numata Suzuki 25 +42.555 8 9 8 16 SWE Johan Stigefelt Suzuki 25 +42.708 11 8 9 21 ITA Franco Battaini Yamaha 25 +43.148 7 7 10 37 ITA Luca Boscoscuro TSR-Honda 25 +52.505 15 6 11 7 JPN Takeshi Tsujimura Yamaha 25 +54.131 12 5 12 14 ITA Davide Bulega ERP Honda 25 +1:07.509 19 4 13 45 ITA Diego Giugovaz Aprilia 25 +1:12.506 18 3 14 18 JPN Osamu Miyazaki Yamaha 25 +1:35.028 17 2 15 82 GBR Woolsey Coulter Honda 25 +1:37.371 21 1 16 22 FRA Matthieu Lagrive Honda 25 +1:42.817 23 17 41 ARG Federico Gartner Aprilia 25 +1:45.353 24 18 97 ARG Diego Ruabén Honda 24 +1 lap 25 19 96 ARG Leandro Mulet Yamaha 24 +1 lap 27 20 98 ARG Gabriel Borgmann Yamaha 24 +1 lap 28 Ret 31 JPN Tetsuya Harada Aprilia 24 Accident 4 Ret 6 JPN Haruchika Aoki Honda 23 Retirement 13 Ret 25 JPN Yasumasa Hatakeyama Honda 19 Accident 22 Ret 8 ESP Luis d'Antin Yamaha 18 Accident 20 Ret 27 ARG Sebastián Porto Aprilia 12 Retirement 5 Ret 17 ESP José Luis Cardoso Yamaha 11 Retirement 10 Ret 4 ITA Stefano Perugini Honda 10 Retirement 14 Ret 95 ARG Matías Ríos Yamaha 1 Retirement 26 Sources: https://resources.motogp.com/files/results/1998/250cc/ARG/RAC/classification.pdf GP Marlboro de Argentina – 250cc – Race Classification MotoGP.com Dorna Sports 25 October 1998 24 May 2016http://www.fim.ch/pressreleases/CP_98.11.06.htm Road Racing Grand Prix World Championship – CDI: Appeal of Loris Capirossi accepted fim.ch Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme 6 November 1998 24 May 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/19991009222002/http://www.fim.ch/pressreleases/CP_98.11.06.htm 9 October 1999 Loris Capirossi is reintegrated in the results of the race of the 250 class of the Argentina Grand Prix, in second position. 125 cc classification Pos. No. Rider Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 3 JPN Tomomi Manako Honda 23 42:43.976 8 25 2 13 ITA Marco Melandri Honda 23 +0.566 2 20 3 10 ITA Lucio Cecchinello Honda 23 +1.137 16 16 4 20 JPN Masao Azuma Honda 23 +1.191 10 13 5 4 JPN Kazuto Sakata Aprilia 23 +16.111 3 11 6 32 ITA Mirko Giansanti Honda 23 +16.314 4 10 7 21 FRA Arnaud Vincent Aprilia 23 +21.921 7 9 8 5 JPN Masaki Tokudome Aprilia 23 +22.833 13 8 9 2 JPN Noboru Ueda Honda 23 +23.597 11 7 10 8 ITA Gianluigi Scalvini Honda 23 +23.922 15 6 11 26 ITA Ivan Goi Aprilia 23 +23.958 14 5 12 23 ITA Gino Borsoi Aprilia 23 +27.543 12 4 13 9 FRA Frédéric Petit Honda 23 +27.720 6 3 14 62 JPN Yoshiaki Katoh Yamaha 23 +27.822 22 2 15 41 JPN Youichi Ui Yamaha 23 +42.461 5 1 16 17 ESP Enrique Maturana Yamaha 23 +52.756 21 17 22 DEU Steve Jenkner Aprilia 23 +54.889 20 18 39 CZE Jaroslav Huleš Honda 23 +55.022 19 19 94 BRA Cristiano Vieira Honda 22 +1 lap 26 20 97 BRA Sílvio César Zequim Honda 22 +1 lap 27 Ret 15 ITA Roberto Locatelli Honda 10 Accident 1 Ret 16 ITA Christian Manna Yamaha 7 Retirement 24 Ret 65 ITA Andrea Iommi Honda 6 Accident 18 Ret 29 ESP Ángel Nieto, Jr. Aprilia 5 Accident 23 Ret 14 ITA Federico Cerroni Aprilia 5 Retirement 25 Ret 59 ESP Jerónimo Vidal Aprilia 2 Retirement 17 DNS 7 ESP Emilio Alzamora Aprilia 0 Did not start 9 DNQ 95 BRA César Barros Honda Did not qualify Source: https://resources.motogp.com/files/results/1998/125cc/ARG/RAC/classification.pdf GP Marlboro de Argentina – 125cc – Race Classification MotoGP.com Dorna Sports 25 October 1998 24 May 2016 Championship standings after the race (500cc) Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round fourteen has concluded.https://resources.motogp.com/files/results/1998/500cc/ARG/world+standing.pdf?v1_96143780 Standings 1998 resources.motogp.com PDF 2019-08-20https://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/1998/ARG/500cc/World+Standing motogp.com · 500cc World Standing 1998 www.motogp.com 2019-08-20 2017-08-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20170805044209/http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/1998/ARG/500cc/World+Standing dead Riders' Championship standings Pos. Position Rider Points 1 AUS Mick Doohan 260 2 ITA Max Biaggi 208 3 SPA Àlex Crivillé 198 4 SPA Carlos Checa 139 5 BRA Alex Barros 138 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 1 JPN Honda 345 2 JPN Yamaha 198 3 JPN Suzuki 111 4 MYS Modenas KR3 73 5 GER MuZ 11 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References Argentine Grand Prix 1998 1998 Australian Grand Prix 1999 Malaysian Grand Prix 1995 Argentine Grand Prix 1999 Argentine Grand Prix Category:Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix Argentine Motorcycle Grand Prix Category:Motorcycle racing controversies