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| Race 10 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 23 August 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Grand Prix České republiky [1] [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Brno Circuit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1998 Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 23 August 1998 at the Masaryk Circuit located in Brno, Czech Republic.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 6 |  Max Biaggi | Marlboro Team Kanemoto | Honda | 22 | 45:12.043 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 |  Àlex Crivillé | Repsol Honda | Honda | 22 | +0.768 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 9 |  Alex Barros | Honda Gresini | Honda | 22 | +1.546 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 2 |  Tadayuki Okada | Repsol Honda | Honda | 22 | +2.235 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 5 | Norick Abe | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 22 | +11.817 | 12 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Repsol Honda | Honda | 22 | +11.946 | 16 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | Carlos Checa | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 22 | +16.317 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 12 |  Jean-Michel Bayle | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 22 | +18.526 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | 55 | Régis Laconi | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 22 | +24.157 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 10 |  Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 22 | +30.549 | 8 | 6 |
| 11 | 11 |  Simon Crafar | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 22 | +34.563 | 11 | 5 |
| 12 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 22 | +38.113 | 9 | 4 |
| 13 | 28 |  Ralf Waldmann | Marlboro Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 22 | +38.525 | 4 | 3 |
| 14 | 77 |  Eskil Suter | MuZ Roc RennSport | MuZ | 22 | +46.145 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 19 | John Kocinski | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 22 | +53.129 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 17 |  Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 22 | +54.201 | 15 | |
| 17 | 14 | Juan Borja | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 22 | +1:22.039 | 18 | |
| 18 | 27 | Katsuaki Fujiwara | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 22 | +1:30.723 | 20 | |
| 19 | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert | Tecmas Honda Elf | Honda | 22 | +1:33.693 | 19 | |
| 20 | 23 | Matt Wait | FCC TSR | Honda | 22 | +1:33.862 | 23 | |
| 21 | 88 |  Scott Smart | Team Millar Honda Britain | Honda | 22 | +1:57.956 | 21 | |
| Ret | 1 |  Mick Doohan | Repsol Honda | Honda | 13 | Retirement | 1 | |
| Ret | 57 | Fabio Carpani | Team Polini Inoxmacel | Honda | 0 | Accident | 22 | |
| DNS | 18 | Garry McCoy | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | Did not start | |||
| Sources: [3] [4] [5] | ||||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 20 | 41:52.318 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Aprilia | 20 | +5.207 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 34 | Marcellino Lucchi | Aprilia | 20 | +28.254 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams | TSR-Honda | 20 | +30.432 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 5 | Tohru Ukawa | Honda | 20 | +30.703 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 6 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 20 | +31.090 | 10 | 10 |
| 7 | 24 | Jason Vincent | TSR-Honda | 20 | +49.163 | 13 | 9 |
| 8 | 7 | Takeshi Tsujimura | Yamaha | 20 | +49.284 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | TSR-Honda | 20 | +49.398 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 17 | José Luis Cardoso | Yamaha | 20 | +50.301 | 19 | 6 |
| 11 | 4 | Stefano Perugini | Honda | 20 | +57.812 | 7 | 5 |
| 12 | 8 | Luis d'Antin | Yamaha | 20 | +57.996 | 15 | 4 |
| 13 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Yamaha | 20 | +1:01.297 | 12 | 3 |
| 14 | 12 | Noriyasu Numata | Suzuki | 20 | +1:10.103 | 9 | 2 |
| 15 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | TSR-Honda | 20 | +1:15.633 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt | Suzuki | 20 | +1:15.721 | 20 | |
| 17 | 25 | Yasumasa Hatakeyama | Honda | 20 | +1:37.942 | 23 | |
| 18 | 18 | Osamu Miyazaki | Yamaha | 20 | +1:39.729 | 18 | |
| 19 | 22 | Matthieu Lagrive | Honda | 20 | +1:39.892 | 24 | |
| 20 | 14 | Davide Bulega | ERP Honda | 20 | +1:40.228 | 21 | |
| 21 | 88 |  Vladimír Častka | ERP Honda | 20 | +1:49.466 | 22 | |
| 22 | 89 |  Radomil Rous | Yamaha | 19 | +1 lap | 26 | |
| Ret | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Honda | 11 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 27 |  Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | 11 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 41 | Federico Gartner | Aprilia | 8 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 2 | |
| DNQ | 90 | Lukáš Vavrečka | Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| DNQ | 91 | Lars Langer | Yamaha | Did not qualify | |||
| Source: [6] | |||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | Marco Melandri | Honda | 19 | 42:05.161 | 7 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Kazuto Sakata | Aprilia | 19 | +0.038 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 10 | Lucio Cecchinello | Honda | 19 | +0.364 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 19 | +3.745 | 14 | 13 |
| 5 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Honda | 19 | +3.794 | 11 | 11 |
| 6 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 19 | +7.082 | 13 | 10 |
| 7 | 52 | Hiroyuki Kikuchi | Honda | 19 | +7.144 | 12 | 9 |
| 8 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Honda | 19 | +7.260 | 9 | 8 |
| 9 | 26 | Ivan Goi | Aprilia | 19 | +9.179 | 15 | 7 |
| 10 | 9 | Frédéric Petit | Honda | 19 | +12.170 | 16 | 6 |
| 11 | 22 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 19 | +15.272 | 10 | 5 |
| 12 | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. | Aprilia | 19 | +33.909 | 20 | 4 |
| 13 | 17 | Enrique Maturana | Yamaha | 19 | +35.083 | 22 | 3 |
| 14 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 19 | +35.333 | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | 62 | Yoshiaki Katoh | Yamaha | 19 | +54.524 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 65 | Andrea Iommi | Honda | 19 | +1:14.415 | 26 | |
| 17 | 16 | Christian Manna | Yamaha | 19 | +1:30.848 | 24 | |
| 18 | 89 | Igor Kaláb | Honda | 19 | +2:05.233 | 27 | |
| 19 | 92 | Michal Březina | Honda | 19 | +2:06.630 | 28 | |
| 20 | 93 | Bohuslav Seifert | Honda | 18 | +1 lap | 30 | |
| Ret | 20 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 18 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 3 | Tomomi Manako | Honda | 15 | Retirement | 2 | |
| Ret | 41 | Youichi Ui | Yamaha | 14 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 8 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 5 | Masaki Tokudome | Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Aprilia | 6 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 91 | Martin Psotný | Honda | 4 | Retirement | 29 | |
| Ret | 59 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 2 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 14 | Federico Cerroni | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 90 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 0 | Accident | 25 | |
| Source: [7] | |||||||
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round ten has concluded. [8]
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