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| Race 4 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 17 May 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Gran Premio Q8 d'Italia [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Mugello Circuit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1998 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth race of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 17 May 1998 at the Mugello Circuit.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  Mick Doohan | Repsol Honda | Honda | 23 | 43:55.307 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 6 |  Max Biaggi | Marlboro Team Kanemoto | Honda | 23 | +5.395 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 4 |  Àlex Crivillé | Repsol Honda | Honda | 23 | +13.141 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 8 | Carlos Checa | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 23 | +19.647 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 19 |  John Kocinski | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 23 | +19.826 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 |  Norick Abe | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 23 | +21.881 | 7 | 10 |
| 7 | 11 |  Simon Crafar | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 23 | +22.626 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 23 | +24.235 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 9 |  Alex Barros | Honda Gresini | Honda | 23 | +27.943 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | 55 |  Régis Laconi | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 23 | +40.767 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | 28 |  Ralf Waldmann | Marlboro Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 23 | +47.331 | 19 | 5 |
| 12 | 21 | Kyoji Nanba | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 23 | +59.623 | 16 | 4 |
| 13 | 18 | Garry McCoy | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 23 | +1:04.004 | 9 | 3 |
| 14 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Repsol Honda | Honda | 23 | +1:09.319 | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert | Repsol Honda | Honda | 23 | +1:14.294 | 17 | 1 |
| 16 | 17 |  Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 23 | +1:15.781 | 18 | |
| 17 | 25 | Yukio Kagayama | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 23 | +1:16.909 | 12 | |
| 18 | 77 |  Eskil Suter | MuZ Roc RennSport | MuZ | 23 | +2:02.092 | 20 | |
| 19 | 88 |  Scott Smart | Team Millar Honda Britain | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| 20 | 57 | Fabio Carpani | Team Polini Inoxmacel | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 24 | |
| Ret | 63 | Gianmaria Liverani | Team Paton | Paton | 21 | Retirement | 23 | |
| Ret | 14 | Juan Borja | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 15 | Retirement | 15 | |
| Ret | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 11 | Retirement | 13 | |
| Ret | 23 | Matt Wait | FCC TSR | Honda | 0 | Accident | 21 | |
| DNQ | 2 | Tadayuki Okada | Repsol Honda | Honda | Did not qualify | |||
| Sources: [1] [2] [3] | ||||||||
The race was held in two parts as rain caused its interruption; aggregate times from the two heats determined the final result. [4]
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 | Marcellino Lucchi | Aprilia | 21 | 40:59.049 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Aprilia | 21 | +5.701 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 21 | +7.625 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | Aprilia | 21 | +10.029 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Stefano Perugini | Honda | 21 | +47.830 | 13 | 11 |
| 6 | 6 | Haruchika Aoki | Honda | 21 | +48.205 | 12 | 10 |
| 7 | 5 | Tohru Ukawa | Honda | 21 | +49.376 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 17 | José Luis Cardoso | Yamaha | 21 | +50.080 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 8 | Luis d'Antin | Yamaha | 21 | +50.161 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | TSR-Honda | 21 | +52.738 | 15 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Yamaha | 21 | +54.241 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 7 | Takeshi Tsujimura | Yamaha | 21 | +54.306 | 18 | 4 |
| 13 | 25 | Yasumasa Hatakeyama | ERP Honda | 21 | +1:50.752 | 23 | 3 |
| 14 | 14 | Davide Bulega | Honda | 21 | +1:53.990 | 22 | 2 |
| 15 | 41 |  Federico Gartner | Aprilia | 21 | +2:22.611 | 24 | 1 |
| 16 | 20 | William Costes | Honda | 20 | +1 lap | 21 | |
| Ret | 18 | Osamu Miyazaki | Yamaha | 19 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 9 | Jeremy McWilliams | TSR-Honda | 19 | Retirement | 7 | |
| Ret | 27 | Sebastián Porto | Aprilia | 14 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 12 | Noriyasu Numata | Suzuki | 11 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Honda | 10 | Retirement | 6 | |
| Ret | 24 | Jason Vincent | TSR-Honda | 6 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 11 | Jürgen Fuchs | Aprilia | 2 | Retirement | 5 | |
| Ret | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | TSR-Honda | 1 | Accident | 9 | |
| DNS | 16 |  Johan Stigefelt | Suzuki | Did not start | |||
| Source: [5] | |||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Tomomi Manako | Honda | 20 | 40:53.607 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 13 | Marco Melandri | Honda | 20 | +0.044 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Honda | 20 | +0.201 | 5 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Kazuto Sakata | Aprilia | 20 | +3.152 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Yamaha | 20 | +8.162 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 20 | +8.195 | 14 | 10 |
| 7 | 2 | Noboru Ueda | Honda | 20 | +10.097 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | 9 | Frédéric Petit | Honda | 20 | +12.745 | 11 | 8 |
| 9 | 20 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 20 | +12.757 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 5 | Masaki Tokudome | Aprilia | 20 | +24.284 | 10 | 6 |
| 11 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 20 | +24.388 | 18 | 5 |
| 12 | 18 | Paolo Tessari | Aprilia | 20 | +24.415 | 6 | 4 |
| 13 | 26 | Ivan Goi | Aprilia | 20 | +25.393 | 15 | 3 |
| 14 | 22 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 20 | +31.066 | 16 | 2 |
| 15 | 64 | Claudio Cipriani | Aprilia | 20 | +49.419 | 19 | 1 |
| 16 | 59 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 20 | +52.007 | 21 | |
| 17 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Aprilia | 20 | +1:01.180 | 20 | |
| 18 | 17 | Enrique Maturana | Yamaha | 20 | +1:01.801 | 24 | |
| 19 | 62 | Yoshiaki Katoh | Yamaha | 20 | +1:04.438 | 25 | |
| 20 | 63 | Marco Tresoldi | Honda | 20 | +1:12.177 | 23 | |
| Ret | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 19 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 10 | Lucio Cecchinello | Honda | 19 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 65 | Andrea Iommi | Honda | 14 | Retirement | 27 | |
| Ret | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 11 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 16 | Christian Manna | Yamaha | 5 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Honda | 4 | Retirement | 4 | |
| Ret | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. | Aprilia | 4 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Source: [6] | |||||||
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round four has concluded. [7]
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