1998 British Grand Prix

October 2017 July 2013 F1 1998 French Grand Prix 1998 Austrian Grand Prix United Kingdom British 12 July 1998 Silverstone_Circuit_1997_to_1998.png Silverstone Circuit in its 1998 configuration LI RAC British Grand Prix 9 16 Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, England Permanent racing facility 3.194 5.140 60 191.631 308.400 Rain, Wet Track Mika Häkkinen FIN McLaren-Mercedes 1:23.271 Michael Schumacher GER Ferrari 1:35.704 12 Michael Schumacher GER Ferrari Mika Häkkinen FIN McLaren-Mercedes Eddie Irvine GBR Ferrari GBR The 1998 British Grand Prix (formally the LI RAC British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at the Silverstone Circuit, England on 12 July 1998. It was the ninth race of the 1998 FIA Formula One World Championship. The 60-lap race was won by Michael Schumacher driving a Ferrari car after starting from second position. Mika Häkkinen, who started from pole position, finished second with Eddie Irvine third in the other Ferrari. Schumacher's victory was his fourth of the season, and his third consecutive victory having won both the preceding Canadian and French Grand Prix, but was under controversial circumstances: there was dispute whether he had avoided a stop-and-go penalty by entering the pit lane to serve it on the final lap, crossing the finish line in the pit lane to win the race before reaching his pit box, although the penalty, which was actually merely a time penalty, was later rescinded. Report Qualifying Mika Häkkinen took pole position by nearly half a second from championship rival Michael Schumacher. Jacques Villeneuve took third position whilst Häkkinen's team-mate David Coulthard qualified in fourth. Ralf Schumacher and Olivier Panis had their qualifying times deleted as they were not able to get out of their cars quick enough during an FIA safety drill, to practice evacuating the cockpit in case of fire. Ralf Schumacher had spun and stalled his engine early in qualifying and qualified in the spare car, which was set up for his team-mate Damon Hill. Race Heavy rain fell during the morning prior to the race. Although the rain stopped before the start, there was a mixture of wet and dry parts on the circuit and as a result all but two cars started on intermediate compound tyres. The two Stewart-Fords decided to start on dry weather tyres.Autosport.com: British Grand Prix Review The first retirement came after 13 laps, when Damon Hill lost control on the damp track whilst battling with Villeneuve for 7th place. After 16 laps, it began to rain again, and many drivers switched to a full wet weather tyre. Johnny Herbert spun and regained the track, but had damaged his car and retired on reaching the pits. thumb|left|David Coulthard retires from the race David Coulthard, driving on intermediates, spun out on lap 38 whilst passing a backmarker. Jarno Trulli spun out on the same lap as Coulthard as Barrichello spun out and hit the wall at Club on lap 40. His McLaren-Mercedes team-mate Mika Häkkinen had built up a lead of 49 seconds over second place driver Michael Schumacher when four laps later he went off the track, did a complete 360 degrees turn before continuing. The incident damaged the front wing of his car and cost him 10 seconds of his lead but following numerous other spins caused by the worsening conditions the safety car was deployed which slowed the cars down, and removed Häkkinen's advantage over Schumacher altogether.BBC News:Schumacher wins British GP The race restarted on lap 50 and it took only two laps for Häkkinen to make another mistake, which put Schumacher in the lead. The German quickly pulled away from his rival, who was now nursing his McLaren home. thumb|Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard side by side However, two laps from the finish, Schumacher was issued with a 10-second time penalty for passing Alexander Wurz under the safety car on lap 43. Unsure whether the handwritten notification declared that Schumacher would see 10 seconds being added to his race time or had to serve a 10-second stop-and-go penalty, his team decided to call him into the pits out of precaution to serve a stop-and-go penalty at the end of the last lap of the race. However, in doing so Schumacher crossed the finish line in the pit lane before reaching the Ferrari garage resulting in a dispute on whether he had actually served a stop and go penalty. Post-race Following the race a dispute arose surrounding the circumstances of Michael Schumacher being issued with and serving his penalty. His team argued that the penalty should have been issued within 25 minutes of the incident but instead they were informed after 31 minutes. They also argued that the hand-written notification was unclear as to which penalty was actually being issued: a stop-and-go, or a 10-second addition to Schumacher's race time, though the FIA's International Court of Appeal later clarified that it was the latter. The stewards then decided to nevertheless apply the 10-second addition, post-race. However, the added time penalty can only be used to punish an infraction in the last 12 laps of a Grand Prix, and so did not apply here. The stewards eventually rescinded the penalty altogether.https://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns01641.html Scandal at Silverstone 13 July 1998 Grandprix.com Inside F1 live https://web.archive.org/web/20070929125559/http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns01641.html 29 September 2007 A protest was lodged by McLaren-Mercedes who felt Ferrari cheated by not having Schumacher serve the penalty, but this was rejected by the FIA.https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/judgements/1998-ica-27-07.pdf International Court of Appeal – Hearing of Monday, 27 July 1998 27 July 1998 International Court of Appeal of the FIA live https://web.archive.org/web/20180414233935/https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/judgements/1998-ica-27-07.pdf 14 April 2018 At the hearing for the protest the International Court of Appeal confirmed that the stewards had made several mistakes in issuing a 10-second time penalty for an incident that happened outside of the last 12 laps of a race while exceeding the allowed time limit for the notification of a penalty having been issued. As a result of their mistakes, the three stewards involved handed in their licenses at an extraordinary meeting of the FIA World Council.https://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns01671.html ...but the stewards got the axe. 3 August 1999 Grandprix.com Inside F1 live https://web.archive.org/web/20090508191239/http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns01671.html 8 May 2009 Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Lap Gap 1 8 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1:23.271 — 2 3 GER Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:23.720 +0.449 3 1 CAN Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Mecachrome 1:24.102 +0.831 4 7 GBR David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:24.310 +1.039 5 4 GBR Eddie Irvine Ferrari 1:24.436 +1.165 6 2 GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Mecachrome 1:24.442 +1.171 7 9 GBR Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 1:24.542 +1.271 8 14 FRA Jean Alesi Sauber-Petronas 1:25.081 +1.810 9 15 GBR Johnny Herbert Sauber-Petronas 1:25.084 +1.813 10 5 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Playlife 1:25.654 +2.383 11 6 AUT Alexander Wurz Benetton-Playlife 1:25.760 +2.489 12 16 BRA Pedro Diniz Arrows 1:26.376 +3.105 13 17 FIN Mika Salo Arrows 1:26.487 +3.216 14 12 ITA Jarno Trulli Prost-Peugeot 1:26.808 +3.537 15 19 NED Jos Verstappen Stewart-Ford 1:26.948 +3.677 16 18 BRA Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 1:26.990 +3.719 17 21 JPN 1947 Toranosuke Takagi Tyrrell-Ford 1:27.061 +3.790 18 23 ARG Esteban Tuero Minardi-Ford 1:28.051 +4.780 19 22 JPN 1947 Shinji Nakano Minardi-Ford 1:28.123 +4.852 20 20 BRA Ricardo Rosset Tyrrell-Ford 1:28.608 +5.337107% time: 1:29.100 21 10 GER Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Mugen-Honda No Time1 1 — 22 11 FRA Olivier Panis Prost-Peugeot No Time1 1 —Source:http://www.statsf1.com/en/1998/grande-bretagne/qualification.aspx Britain 1998 - Qualifications • STATS F1 F1 STATS www.statsf1.com en 19 October 2018 Notes 1 – Qualification times of Ralf Schumacher and Olivier Panis were disallowed because they failed an FIA safety drill. Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 3 GER Michael Schumacher Ferrari 60 1:47:02.450 2 10 2 8 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 60 +22.465 1 6 3 4 GBR Eddie Irvine Ferrari 60 +29.199 5 4 4 6 AUT Alexander Wurz Benetton-Playlife 59 +1 Lap 11 3 5 5 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton-Playlife 59 +1 Lap 10 2 6 10 GER Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Mugen-Honda 59 +1 Lap 21 1 7 1 CAN Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Mecachrome 59 +1 Lap 3   8 22 JPN 1947 Shinji Nakano Minardi-Ford 58 +2 Laps 19   9 21 JPN 1947 Toranosuke Takagi Tyrrell-Ford 56 +4 Laps 17   Ret Retired 14 FRA Jean Alesi Sauber-Petronas 53 Electrical 8   Ret Retired 16 BRA Pedro Diniz Arrows 45 Spun off 12   Ret Retired 11 FRA Olivier Panis Prost-Peugeot 40 Spun off 22   Ret Retired 18 BRA Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 39 Accident 16   Ret Retired 19 NED Jos Verstappen Stewart-Ford 38 Engine 15   Ret Retired 7 GBR David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 37 Spun off 4   Ret Retired 12 ITA Jarno Trulli Prost-Peugeot 37 Spun off 14   Ret Retired 20 BRA Ricardo Rosset Tyrrell-Ford 29 Spun off 20   Ret Retired 23 ARG Esteban Tuero Minardi-Ford 29 Spun off 18   Ret Retired 15 GBR Johnny Herbert Sauber-Petronas 27 Spun off 9   Ret Retired 17 FIN Mika Salo Arrows 27 Throttle 13   Ret Retired 2 GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Mecachrome 15 Spun off 6   Ret Retired 9 GBR Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 13 Spun off 7  Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1998/172/ 1998 British Grand Prix formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20141205004509/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1998/172/ 5 December 2014 24 December 2015 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 FIN Mika Häkkinen 56 2 GER Michael Schumacher 54 3 GBR David Coulthard 30 4 GBR Eddie Irvine 29 5 AUT Alexander Wurz 17Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1998/grande-bretagne/championnat.aspx Britain 1998 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 14 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 GBR McLaren-Mercedes 86 2 ITA Ferrari 83 3 ITA Benetton-Playlife 32 4 GBR Williams-Mecachrome 19 5 GBR Stewart-Ford 5Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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