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| Race 9 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 19 July 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Polini Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland [1] [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Sachsenring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1998 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 19 July 1998 at the Sachsenring.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  Mick Doohan | Repsol Honda | Honda | 31 | 46:00.876 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 6 |  Max Biaggi | Marlboro Team Kanemoto | Honda | 31 | +2.873 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 4 |  Àlex Crivillé | Repsol Honda | Honda | 31 | +11.379 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 9 |  Alex Barros | Honda Gresini | Honda | 31 | +11.533 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 55 |  Régis Laconi | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 31 | +19.093 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 10 |  Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 31 | +30.087 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | 28 |  Ralf Waldmann | Marlboro Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 31 | +34.881 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 17 |  Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 31 | +35.033 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 21 |  Kyoji Nanba | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 31 | +46.078 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 31 | +48.684 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | 39 | Gregorio Lavilla | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 31 | +58.019 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 26 | Bernard Garcia | Tecmas Honda Elf | Honda | 31 | +1:03.165 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 77 |  Eskil Suter | MuZ Roc RennSport | MuZ | 31 | +1:10.827 | 14 | 3 |
| 14 | 23 | Matt Wait | FCC TSR | Honda | 31 | +1:10.941 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 72 | Fernando Cristóbal | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 31 | +1:31.896 | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 57 | Fabio Carpani | Team Polini Inoxmacel | Honda | 30 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| Ret | 18 | Garry McCoy | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 30 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Repsol Honda | Honda | 29 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 88 |  Scott Smart | Team Millar Honda Britain | Honda | 26 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 11 |  Simon Crafar | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 11 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 5 | Norick Abe | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 5 | Accident | 8 | |
| WD | 60 | Jörg Schöllhorn | Team Zupin | Honda | Withdrew | |||
| Source: [3] | ||||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 30 | 44:43.421 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams | TSR-Honda | 30 | +9.033 | 7 | 20 |
| 3 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Aprilia | 30 | +9.267 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Aprilia | 30 | +10.611 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 24 | Jason Vincent | TSR-Honda | 30 | +38.261 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 7 | Takeshi Tsujimura | Yamaha | 30 | +43.611 | 10 | 10 |
| 7 | 17 | José Luis Cardoso | Yamaha | 30 | +45.243 | 13 | 9 |
| 8 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | TSR-Honda | 30 | +45.702 | 16 | 8 |
| 9 | 12 | Noriyasu Numata | Suzuki | 30 | +49.915 | 12 | 7 |
| 10 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Honda | 30 | +51.523 | 11 | 6 |
| 11 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | TSR-Honda | 30 | +54.914 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 8 | Luis d'Antin | Yamaha | 30 | +1:20.499 | 17 | 4 |
| 13 | 14 | Davide Bulega | ERP Honda | 30 | +1:23.418 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 33 | Jamie Robinson | Yamaha | 30 | +1:23.915 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 84 | Mike Baldinger | Honda | 29 | +1 lap | 24 | 1 |
| Ret | 86 | Markus Ober | Honda | 13 | Accident | 21 | |
| Ret | 85 | Matthias Neukirchen | Aprilia | 13 | Accident | 25 | |
| Ret | 20 | William Costes | Honda | 10 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 47 | Ivan Clementi | Yamaha | 9 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt | Suzuki | 6 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 27 |  Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 6 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 4 | Retirement | 9 | |
| Ret | 4 | Stefano Perugini | Honda | 3 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 5 | Tohru Ukawa | Honda | 3 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 41 | Federico Gartner | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 87 | Adrian Schmidt | Honda | 0 | Accident | 26 | |
| DNS | 11 | Jürgen Fuchs | Aprilia | Did not start | |||
| DNS | 25 | Yasumasa Hatakeyama | ERP Honda | Did not start | |||
| WD | 68 | Julien Allemand | Honda | Withdrew | |||
| Source: [4] | |||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Tomomi Manako | Honda | 29 | 44:37.947 | 6 | 25 |
| 2 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 29 | +16.513 | 18 | 20 |
| 3 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Honda | 29 | +24.754 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | 52 | Hiroyuki Kikuchi | Honda | 29 | +24.771 | 11 | 13 |
| 5 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Aprilia | 29 | +25.778 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 62 | Yoshiaki Katoh | Yamaha | 29 | +28.862 | 16 | 10 |
| 7 | 4 | Kazuto Sakata | Aprilia | 29 | +37.703 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | 22 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 29 | +39.681 | 10 | 8 |
| 9 | 5 | Masaki Tokudome | Aprilia | 29 | +41.147 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. | Aprilia | 29 | +49.449 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 26 | Ivan Goi | Aprilia | 29 | +54.783 | 23 | 5 |
| 12 | 17 | Enrique Maturana | Yamaha | 29 | +54.868 | 19 | 4 |
| 13 | 13 | Marco Melandri | Honda | 29 | +55.292 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | 65 | Andrea Iommi | Honda | 29 | +55.350 | 21 | 2 |
| 15 | 16 | Christian Manna | Yamaha | 29 | +58.319 | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 85 | Klaus Nöhles | Honda | 29 | +1:09.226 | 20 | |
| 17 | 14 | Federico Cerroni | Aprilia | 29 | +1:17.974 | 17 | |
| 18 | 84 | Reinhard Stolz | Honda | 29 | +1:27.436 | 24 | |
| 19 | 86 | Oliver Perschke | Yamaha | 29 | +1:28.176 | 27 | |
| 20 | 87 | Dirk Heidolf | Honda | 29 | +1:29.205 | 28 | |
| Ret | 20 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 10 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 41 | Youichi Ui | Yamaha | 9 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 9 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 59 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 8 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 7 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 7 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 88 | Maik Stief | Yamaha | 6 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Honda | 3 | Accident | 13 | |
| DNS | 9 | Frédéric Petit | Honda | Did not start | |||
| DNS | 10 | Lucio Cecchinello | Honda | Did not start | |||
| Source: [5] | |||||||
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded. [6]
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