1998 Madrid motorcycle Grand Prix

The 1998 Madrid motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 14 June 1998 at the Circuito Permanente del Jarama. It was held to replace the Portuguese Grand Prix due to homologation issues of the Autódromo do Estoril.

  1998 Madrid Grand Prix

Race details
Race 6 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	14 June 1998
Official name	Gran Premio Comunidad de Madrid
Location	Circuito del Jarama
Course	Permanent racing facility 3.850 km (2.392 mi)
500cc
Pole position Rider Mick Doohan Time 1:32.493 Fastest lap Rider Carlos Checa Time 1:33.617 on lap 2 Podium First Carlos Checa Second Norick Abe Third Sete Gibernau
250cc
Pole position Rider Loris Capirossi Time 1:34.382 Fastest lap Rider Tetsuya Harada Time 1:35.012 on lap 4 Podium First Tetsuya Harada Second Tohru Ukawa Third Loris Capirossi
125cc
Pole position Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 1:38.952 Fastest lap Rider Kazuto Sakata Time 1:39.330 on lap 7 Podium First Lucio Cecchinello Second Marco Melandri Third Hiroyuki Kikuchi

500 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	8	Carlos Checa	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	30	47:21.513	3	25
2	5	Norick Abe	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	30	0.220	8	20
3	15	Sete Gibernau	Repsol Honda	Honda	30	1.886	14	16
4	3	Nobuatsu Aoki	Suzuki Grand Prix Team	Suzuki	30	5.206	9	13
5	4	Àlex Crivillé	Repsol Honda	Honda	30	11.165	4	11
6	6	Max Biaggi	Marlboro Team Kanemoto	Honda	30	11.579	10	10
7	55	Régis Laconi	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	11.711	5	9
8	11	Simon Crafar	Red Bull Yamaha WCM	Yamaha	30	32.658	6	8
9	9	Alex Barros	Honda Gresini	Honda	30	36.226	13	7
10	28	Ralf Waldmann	Marlboro Team Roberts	Modenas KR3	30	55.342	11	6
11	18	Garry McCoy	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	30	56.938	16	5
12	88	Scott Smart	Team Millar Honda Britain	Honda	30	1:22.806	18	4
13	23	Matt Wait	FCC TSR	Honda	30	1:26.677	17	3
14	77	Eskil Suter	MuZ Roc RennSport	MuZ	29	1 lap	19	2
15	72	Fernando Cristóbal	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	29	1 lap	20	1
16	57	Fabio Carpani	Team Polini Inoxmacel	Honda	29	1 lap	21
Ret	20	Luca Cadalora	Yamaha Team Rainey	Yamaha	26	Retirement	2
Ret	17	Jurgen van den Goorbergh	Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team	Honda	20	Retirement	12
Ret	14	Juan Borja	Shell Advance Racing	Honda	15	Retirement	15
Ret	1	Mick Doohan	Repsol Honda	Honda	0	Accident	1
Ret	19	John Kocinski	Movistar Honda Pons	Honda	0	Accident	7
DNQ	22	Sébastien Gimbert	Tecmas Honda Elf	Honda		Did not qualify
WD	10	Kenny Roberts Jr.	Team Roberts	Modenas KR3		Withdrew
Sources:

250 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	31	Tetsuya Harada	Aprilia	28	44:44.553	2	25
2	5	Tohru Ukawa	Honda	28	8.738	3	20
3	65	Loris Capirossi	Aprilia	28	15.978	1	16
4	11	Jürgen Fuchs	Aprilia	28	22.545	6	13
5	17	José Luis Cardoso	Yamaha	28	24.444	10	11
6	8	Luis d'Antin	Yamaha	28	33.716	9	10
7	7	Takeshi Tsujimura	Yamaha	28	33.791	18	9
8	24	Jason Vincent	TSR-Honda	28	46.342	11	8
9	9	Jeremy McWilliams	TSR-Honda	28	50.206	7	7
10	44	Roberto Rolfo	TSR-Honda	28	51.016	16	6
11	47	Ivan Clementi	Yamaha	28	1:04.474	21	5
12	16	Johan Stigefelt	Suzuki	28	1:11.969	19	4
13	25	Yasumasa Hatakeyama	ERP Honda	28	1:30.205	14	3
14	14	Davide Bulega	ERP Honda	27	1 lap	22	2
15	59	Ismael Bonilla	Honda	27	1 lap	24	1
16	41	Federico Gartner	Aprilia	27	1 lap	25
Ret	6	Haruchika Aoki	Honda	27	Accident	8
Ret	27	Sebastián Porto	Aprilia	14	Retirement	17
Ret	4	Stefano Perugini	Honda	12	Retirement	12
Ret	20	William Costes	Honda	12	Retirement	20
Ret	46	Valentino Rossi	Aprilia	4	Retirement	4
Ret	12	Noriyasu Numata	Suzuki	3	Retirement	13
Ret	19	Olivier Jacque	Honda	2	Accident	5
Ret	37	Luca Boscoscuro	TSR-Honda	0	Accident	15
Ret	73	Alex Debón	Honda	0	Accident	23
DNS	21	Franco Battaini	Yamaha		Did not start
DNQ	72	José David de Gea	Yamaha		Did not qualify
Source:

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	10	Lucio Cecchinello	Honda	26	43:28.423	8	25
2	13	Marco Melandri	Honda	26	9.173	3	20
3	52	Hiroyuki Kikuchi	Honda	26	9.317	11	16
4	4	Kazuto Sakata	Aprilia	26	17.268	1	13
5	8	Gianluigi Scalvini	Honda	26	19.417	12	11
6	29	Ángel Nieto, Jr.	Aprilia	26	19.511	16	10
7	41	Youichi Ui	Yamaha	26	21.010	19	9
8	9	Frédéric Petit	Honda	26	23.034	5	8
9	5	Masaki Tokudome	Aprilia	26	23.066	15	7
10	22	Steve Jenkner	Aprilia	26	23.552	18	6
11	62	Yoshiaki Katoh	Yamaha	26	26.762	21	5
12	39	Jaroslav Huleš	Honda	26	31.484	20	4
13	58	Álvaro Molina	Honda	26	41.584	23	3
14	60	Fonsi Nieto	Aprilia	26	42.512	22	2
15	17	Enrique Maturana	Yamaha	26	50.521	27	1
16	23	Gino Borsoi	Aprilia	26	55.673	14
17	71	Josep Sardá	Honda	26	59.576	26
18	65	Andrea Iommi	Honda	26	1:10.446	28
19	73	Iván Martínez	Aprilia	26	1:33.316	24
Ret	32	Mirko Giansanti	Honda	24	Accident	7
Ret	3	Tomomi Manako	Honda	24	Accident	9
Ret	15	Roberto Locatelli	Honda	20	Retirement	4
Ret	59	Jerónimo Vidal	Aprilia	18	Accident	17
Ret	7	Emilio Alzamora	Aprilia	17	Retirement	2
Ret	26	Ivan Goi	Aprilia	15	Retirement	13
Ret	14	Federico Cerroni	Aprilia	14	Accident	25
Ret	20	Masao Azuma	Honda	13	Accident	6
Ret	16	Christian Manna	Yamaha	10	Retirement	29
Ret	21	Arnaud Vincent	Aprilia	2	Accident	10
DNS	72	Sebastián Perelló	Honda		Did not start
Source:

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

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

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Àlex Crivillé	103
2	Max Biaggi	98
3	Carlos Checa	95
4	Mick Doohan	90
5	Norifumi Abe	51

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Honda	150
2	Yamaha	75
3	Suzuki	57
4	Modenas KR3	34
5	MuZ	6

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