Race calendar and results
- Footnotes
| 1998 Superbike World Championship | |||
| Previous: | 1997 | Next: | 1999 |
| Support series: Supersport World Series | |||
The 1998 Superbike World Championship was the eleventh FIM Superbike World Championship season. The season started on 22 March at Phillip Island and finished on 4 October at Sugo after 12 rounds.
The season saw the introduction of a revised qualifying system: after two timed qualifying sessions, the sixteen fastest riders were admitted to the newly created Superpole, which determined the first four rows of the starting grid; during this session each rider went on the track in reverse qualifying order to take a single flying lap. [1]
Carl Fogarty, who amassed three race victories during the season, won the riders' championship [2] for the third time after 1994 and 1995; Fogarty prevailed over Aaron Slight at the last round, while Troy Corser, who had entered the final event leading the standings, could not race due to injury. [3] Ducati won the manufacturers' championship. [4]
The season also saw Sentul (part of Indonesian Grand Prix) being dropped from 1998 calendar due to 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
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‡ Due to separate accidents, the first race in Laguna Seca was stopped on the 13th of the 28 scheduled laps and the subsequent restart was aborted; half points were awarded. [6]
| 1998 final manufacturers' standings [4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pos. | Manufacturer | AUS  | GBR  | ITA  | ESP  | GER  | SMR  | RSA  | USA  | EUR  | AUT  | NED  | JPN  | Pts | ||||||||||||||||||
| R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1‡ | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | |||||||||
| 1 | Ducati | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 487.5 | ||||||
| 2 | Honda | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 416.5 | ||||||
| 3 | Yamaha | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 307 | ||||||
| 4 | Suzuki | 6 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 252 | ||||||
| 5 | Kawasaki | 5 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 251 | ||||||
| Pos. | Manufacturer | AUS | GBR | ITA | ESP | GER | SMR | RSA | USA | EUR | AUT | NED | JPN | Pts | ||||||||||||||||||
‡ Due to separate accidents, the first race in Laguna Seca was stopped on the 13th of the 28 scheduled laps and the subsequent restart was aborted; half points were awarded. [6]
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