1998 Canadian Grand Prix

October 2017 F1 1998 Monaco Grand Prix 1998 French Grand Prix Canada Canadian 7 June 1998 Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (1996-2001).svg 7 16 Grand Prix Player's du Canada Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Street circuit 2.747 4.421 69 189.549 305.049 Cool and overcast with air temperatures reaching up to 16.0 C FWind speeds up to 2.9 km/h mph reportedhttp://www.almanac.com/weather/history/QC/Montreal/1998-06-07 Weather information for the "1998 Canadian Grand Prix" The Old Farmers' Almanac 20 May 2015 David Coulthard GBR McLaren-Mercedes 1:18.213 Michael Schumacher GER Ferrari 1:19.379 48 Michael Schumacher GER Ferrari Giancarlo Fisichella ITA Benetton-Playlife Eddie Irvine GBR Ferrari CAN The 1998 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on 7 June 1998. The 69-lap race was the seventh round of the 1998 FIA Formula One World Championship. It was won by Michael Schumacher, however the race is probably best remembered for the crash on the first lap involving Alexander Wurz, Jean Alesi and Jarno Trulli, which resulted in the race being red flagged and restarted, only for another collision to take place between Alesi and Trulli at the same corner, and the race being started once again under the safety car. Report Qualifying In Montreal, David Coulthard secured his third pole position of the season, achieving the fastest time at the very end of the session. Mika Häkkinen encountered a lot of traffic during his quick laps. Michael Schumacher was third with a lap time only 0.2 seconds behind Coulthard's. The night before qualifying, Eddie Irvine had released a comment saying that the Canadian Grand Prix would be crucial for Ferrari, with Schumacher expressing the same opinion. Race At the start of the race Michael Schumacher started brilliantly and overtook Mika Häkkinen, whilst his brother Ralf Schumacher stalled. It took two attempts to get the race started as Alexander Wurz precipitated a collision, which somersaulted his Benetton above the gravel trap, into the first turn and involving Jean Alesi and Jarno Trulli as well. This carnage brought out the red flag. The race was stopped and Alesi, Wurz and Trulli all took the restart in their spare cars. Herbert was lucky that his mechanics were able to repair his Sauber, as Alesi took the spare. The only damage to the car proved to be a bent suspension arm. At the second start, Michael Schumacher's Ferrari got a poor start, and was instantly overtaken by Giancarlo Fisichella. However, even more chaos would ensue. Häkkinen's gearbox jammed causing Ralf Schumacher to take avoiding action; he also went across the grass and spun in the middle of the track and then pulled off the track with a broken gearbox. This caused mayhem in the pack behind him. Trulli mounted Alesi's car and in total five cars retired after the second start: Häkkinen (gearbox), Ralf Schumacher (spun off), Alesi and Trulli who were involved in the accident, and Toranosuke Takagi who had transmission problems. Michael Schumacher managed to overtake Giancarlo Fisichella on the first lap but due to all the retirements the safety car was sent out. After five laps, the safety car came back in and the order was, David Coulthard followed by Schumacher, Fisichella, Jacques Villeneuve, Rubens Barrichello, and Heinz-Harald Frentzen. As the race got under way again, Coulthard and Michael Schumacher started to pull away from the rest of the field. Coulthard led for the first 13 laps until the safety car came out for the second time. Pedro Diniz had gone off the track and when he rejoined he threw a lot of grass and dirt on to the circuit that needed to be removed. When the safety car went back in, there were another three retirements. Mika Salo collided with Johnny Herbert who went off for the second time, and Coulthard had a transmission problem caused by a throttle linkage failure while battling Michael Schumacher for the lead. The accident involving Salo and Herbert sent out the safety car for a third time, and Michael Schumacher took advantage by making a pitstop. When he got back out and yellow flags were waved to show that there was to be no overtaking, coming out of the pit lane on lap 20 Schumacher shot across to block Frentzen for turn one. Frentzen steered off the track and onto the grass and spun into the gravel at the end of turn one to retire from the Grand Prix. Williams team principal, Patrick Head, furious at what had just happened, went to Ferrari team principal Jean Todt to have strong words with him about the racing incident: "We [Williams] will do everything to get him [Schumacher] thrown out of this race and no we will not tolerate it".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMmVICbDMpU&t=140 https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/hMmVICbDMpU 2021-12-22 live Schumacher -Frentzen Canada 1998 YouTube 7 March 2017 As the restart Fisichella led, ahead of Villeneuve, Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill, Magnussen and Shinji Nakano. Villeneuve immediately tried to go around the outside of Fisichella and take the lead in the race at home, but he got it all wrong, went off the track and damaged his rear wing. On lap 35, Schumacher was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty due to the 'incident' with Frentzen. This momentarily put him behind Hill, but Schumacher overtook him and regained second place on lap 38. Damon Hill had eventually retired on lap 43 with the result of an electrical problem. Then he took the lead on lap 45 when Fisichella went in for his only pit stop. Schumacher then extended his lead over the rest of the pack, and by the time he made his second pit stop to refuel he was able to hold on to his first place, and subsequently finish the race with 16 seconds between himself and second-place finisher Fisichella, with Schumacher's team-mate Eddie Irvine in third, well over a minute behind despite picking up a puncture at the restart. Jan Magnussen finished sixth, scoring his only Formula One point in his last Grand Prix. Classification 250px|thumb|Coulthard took pole position, but retired from the race Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Lap Time Gap 1 7 GBR David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:18.213 2 8 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1:18.282 +0.069 3 3 GER Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:18.497 +0.284 4 5 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Playlife 1:18.826 +0.613 5 10 GER Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Mugen-Honda 1:19.242 +1.029 6 1 CAN Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Mecachrome 1:19.588 +1.375 7 2 GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Mecachrome 1:19.614 +1.401 8 4 GBR Eddie Irvine Ferrari 1:19.616 +1.403 9 14 FRA Jean Alesi Sauber-Petronas 1:19.693 +1.480 10 9 GBR Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 1:19.717 +1.504 11 6 AUT Alexander Wurz Benetton-Playlife 1:19.765 +1.552 12 15 GBR Johnny Herbert Sauber-Petronas 1:19.845 +1.632 13 18 BRA Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 1:19.953 +1.740 14 12 ITA Jarno Trulli Prost-Peugeot 1:20.188 +1.975 15 11 FRA Olivier Panis Prost-Peugeot 1:20.303 +2.090 16 21 JPN 1947 Toranosuke Takagi Tyrrell-Ford 1:20.328 +2.115 17 17 FIN Mika Salo Arrows 1:20.536 +2.323 18 22 JPN 1947 Shinji Nakano Minardi-Ford 1:21.230 +3.017 19 16 BRA Pedro Diniz Arrows 1:21.301 +3.088 20 19 DEN Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 1:21.629 +3.416 21 23 ARG Esteban Tuero Minardi-Ford 1:21.822 +3.609 22 20 BRA Ricardo Rosset Tyrrell-Ford 1:21.824 +3.611107% time: 1:23.688Source:http://www.statsf1.com/en/1998/canada/qualification.aspx Canada 1998 - Qualifications • STATS F1 F1 STATS www.statsf1.com en 19 October 2018 Race 250px|thumb|right|Fisichella, Schumacher, and Irvine on the podium after the race. Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 3 GER Michael Schumacher Ferrari 69 1:40:57.335 3 10 2 5 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Playlife 69 +16.662 4 6 3 4 GBR Eddie Irvine Ferrari 69 +1:00.059 8 4 4 6 AUT Alexander Wurz Benetton-Playlife 69 +1:03.232 11 3 5 18 BRA Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 69 +1:21.513 13 2 6 19 DEN Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 68 +1 Lap 20 1 7 22 JPN 1947 Shinji Nakano Minardi-Ford 68 +1 Lap 18   8 20 BRA Ricardo Rosset Tyrrell-Ford 68 +1 Lap 22   9 16 BRA Pedro Diniz Arrows 68 +1 Lap 19   10 1 CAN Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Mecachrome 63 +6 Laps 6   Ret Retired 23 ARG Esteban Tuero Minardi-Ford 53 Electrical 21   Ret Retired 9 GBR Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 42 Electrical 10   Ret Retired 11 FRA Olivier Panis Prost-Peugeot 39 Engine 15   Ret Retired 2 GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Mecachrome 20 Spun off 7   Ret Retired 7 GBR David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 18 Throttle 1   Ret Retired 15 GBR Johnny Herbert Sauber-Petronas 18 Spun off 12   Ret Retired 17 FIN Mika Salo Arrows 18 Accident 17   Ret Retired 8 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 0 Gearbox 2   Ret Retired 10 GER Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Mugen-Honda 0 Gearbox 5   Ret Retired 14 FRA Jean Alesi Sauber-Petronas 0 Collision 9   Ret Retired 12 ITA Jarno Trulli Prost-Peugeot 0 Collision 14   Ret Retired 21 JPN 1947 Toranosuke Takagi Tyrrell-Ford 0 Transmission 16  Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1998/170/ 1998 Canadian Grand Prix formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20141205010626/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1998/170/ 5 December 2014 24 December 2015 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 FIN Mika Häkkinen 46 2 GER Michael Schumacher 34 3 GBR David Coulthard 29 4 GBR Eddie Irvine 19 5 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella 13Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1998/canada/championnat.aspx Canada 1998 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 14 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR McLaren-Mercedes 75 2 ITA Ferrari 53 3 ITA Benetton-Playlife 25 4 GBR Williams-Mecachrome 16 5 GBR Stewart-Ford 5Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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