1998 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1998 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 20 September 1998 at the Circuit de Catalunya. It was the last time that the Catalan Motorcycle Grand Prix was held in September 2020.

  1998 Catalan Grand Prix

Race details
Race 12 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	20 September 1998
Official name	Gran Premi Marlboro de Catalunya
Location	Circuit de Catalunya
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.727 km (2.937 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Àlex Crivillé Time 1:45.583 Fastest lap Rider Alex Barros Time 1:46.810 on lap 5 Podium First Mick Doohan Second Tadayuki Okada Third Norick Abe
250cc
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:47.457 Fastest lap Rider Valentino Rossi Time 1:47.585 on lap 5 Podium First Valentino Rossi Second Tetsuya Harada Third Loris Capirossi
125cc
Pole position Rider Roberto Locatelli Time 1:52.641 Fastest lap Rider Mirko Giansanti Time 1:53.142 on lap 5 Podium First Tomomi Manako Second Mirko Giansanti Third Masao Azuma

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Mick Doohan	Repsol Honda	Honda	25	44:53.264	4	25
2	2	Tadayuki Okada	Repsol Honda	Honda	25	1.974	6	20
3	5	Norick Abe	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	25	8.260	9	16
4	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda	Honda	25	20.865	10	13
5	11	Simon Crafar	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	25	22.967	16	11
6	8	Carlos Checa	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	25	24.933	12	10
7	9	Alex Barros	Honda Gresini	Honda	25	25.764	3	9
8	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	25	28.571	14	8
9	19	John Kocinski	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	25	41.358	11	7
10	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	25	41.373	7	6
11	3	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	25	48.310	5	5
12	28	Ralf Waldmann	Marlboro Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	25	50.942	17	4
13	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	25	1:10.545	13	3
14	23	Matt Wait	FCC TSR	Honda	25	1:14.721	23	2
15	88	Scott Smart	Team Millar Honda Britain	Honda	25	1:14.779	22	1
16	43	Paolo Tessari	Team Paton	Paton	24	1 lap	25
Ret	42	Craig Connell	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	18	Retirement	21
Ret	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda	12	Retirement	20
Ret	57	Fabio Carpani	Team Polini Inoxmacel	Honda	12	Retirement	24
Ret	77	Eskil Suter	MuZ Roc RennSport	MuZ	11	Accident	18
Ret	14	Juan Borja	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	6	Accident	19
Ret	4	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda	Honda	1	Retirement	1
Ret	12	Jean-Michel Bayle	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	0	Accident	8
Ret	27	Katsuaki Fujiwara	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	0	Accident	15
DSQ	6	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Team Kanemoto	Honda	18	Black flag	2
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	23	41:48.737	2	25
2	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	23	3.922	5	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	Aprilia	23	14.048	1	16
4	19	Olivier Jacque	Honda	23	17.698	6	13
5	5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	23	29.855	4	11
6	4	Stefano Perugini	Honda	23	38.668	10	10
7	6	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	23	38.701	8	9
8	44	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	23	38.926	20	8
9	21	Franco Battaini	Yamaha	23	39.048	13	7
10	7	Takeshi Tsujimura	Yamaha	23	46.392	14	6
11	24	Jason Vincent	TSR-Honda	23	46.431	17	5
12	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	23	46.953	15	4
13	12	Noriyasu Numata	Suzuki	23	49.845	12	3
14	18	Osamu Miyazaki	Yamaha	23	51.142	7	2
15	16	Johan Stigefelt	Suzuki	23	1:09.499	19	1
16	8	Luis d'Antin	Yamaha	23	1:12.604	16
17	25	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	Honda	23	1:18.459	23
18	45	Diego Giugovaz	Aprilia	23	1:18.836	21
19	22	Matthieu Lagrive	Honda	23	1:36.751	25
20	92	David García	Yamaha	23	1:49.034	24
21	74	Lucas Oliver Bultó	Honda	22	1 lap	29
22	94	David Ortega	Honda	22	1 lap	28
Ret	9	Jeremy McWilliams	TSR-Honda	19	Accident	11
Ret	17	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	17	Retirement	22
Ret	34	Marcellino Lucchi	Aprilia	14	Retirement	3
Ret	41	Federico Gartner	Aprilia	14	Accident	27
Ret	93	Iván Silva	Honda	13	Retirement	30
Ret	58	Eustaquio Gavira	Honda	6	Retirement	26
Ret	27	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	6	Retirement	9
Ret	14	Davide Bulega	ERP Honda	6	Retirement	18
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Tomomi Manako	Honda	22	42:10.704	2	25
2	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	22	0.079	6	20
3	20	Masao Azuma	Honda	22	0.096	3	16
4	10	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	22	0.172	11	13
5	15	Roberto Locatelli	Honda	22	0.336	1	11
6	2	Noboru Ueda	Honda	22	0.724	14	10
7	62	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	22	0.942	7	9
8	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	22	1.027	12	8
9	4	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	22	1.062	4	7
10	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	22	1.540	13	6
11	26	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	22	1.737	9	5
12	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	22	2.063	16	4
13	5	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	22	2.607	8	3
14	7	Emilio Alzamora	Aprilia	22	3.046	10	2
15	9	Frédéric Petit	Honda	22	5.025	18	1
16	22	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	22	14.377	19
17	60	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	22	14.503	15
18	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Aprilia	22	16.024	22
19	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	22	23.779	24
20	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	22	33.882	17
21	19	Andrea Ballerini	Yamaha	22	33.932	25
22	79	Pablo Nieto	Aprilia	22	37.248	26
23	71	Josep Sardá	Honda	22	47.529	29
24	65	Andrea Iommi	Honda	22	47.597	23
25	58	Álvaro Molina	Honda	22	47.856	21
Ret	17	Enrique Maturana	Yamaha	20	Retirement	20
Ret	41	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	15	Accident	5
Ret	73	Iván Martínez	Aprilia	13	Retirement	27
Ret	70	Adrián Araujo	Honda	1	Accident	28
DNS	14	Federico Cerroni	Aprilia		Did not start
Source:

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Mick Doohan	210
2	Max Biaggi	189
3	Àlex Crivillé	182
4	Carlos Checa	131
5	Alex Barros	109

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	295
2	Yamaha	165
3	Suzuki	97
4	Modenas KR3	62
5	MuZ	11

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