1998 Spanish Grand Prix

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Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona

Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona
Date, 1998
Official nameXL Gran Premio Telefónica de España
LocationCircuit de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
CoursePermanent racing facility
2.892 mi / 4.655 km
Distance65 laps, 187.934 mi / 302.449 km
WeatherSunny and warm
Pole
Driver25px|border Mika HäkkinenMcLaren-Mercedes
Time1:20.262
Fastest Lap
Driver25px|border Mika HäkkinenMcLaren-Mercedes
Time1m 24.275s
Podium
First25px|border Mika HäkkinenMcLaren-Mercedes
Second25px|border David CoulthardMcLaren-Mercedes
Third25px|border Michael SchumacherFerrari


The 1998 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on May 10, 1998 at the Circuit de Catalunya.

Race Summary

Mika Häkkinen qualified for pole, out qualifying team-mate David Coulthard by 0.7 seconds with Michael Schumacher a further 0.8 seconds back. The race proved to be a formality, with Häkkinen claiming the victory, with Coulthard second, and Schumacher third. Schumacher made a poor start and fell back to fifth behind Eddie Irvine and Benetton's Giancarlo Fisichella. And this was how they ran until their first pit stops, when Irvine delayed Fisichella sufficiently for his team-mate Schumacher to emerge ahead, in third position.

Fisichella was not impressed by this act and set about Irvine. However his attempted passing manoeuvre around the outside failed when neither saw fit to back off, and they speared off into the gravel trap where they entered into a heated debate. This led to Alexander Wurz inheriting fourth place, which he held right until the end. Rubens Barrichello may have been disappointed that his Stewart had been lapped, but he was delighted with his drive nonetheless, bringing his car home in fifth place ahead of Jacques Villeneuve. While this emphasised that the Stewart team was making progress after a poor start to the season, it suggested that Williams was actually becoming less competitive by the race, struggling to get its chassis to behave. Add to the that the fact that the Bridgestone tyres used by McLaren and Benetton in particular seemed to have the edge, especially in hot conditions and you can imagine the despair setting in at Williams. Team morale was not what it had been when they were sweeping all before them in the early 1990's, and Heinz-Harald Frentzen was coming under increasing pressure after finishing eight, two laps behind Häkkinen. He had qualified 13th and Villeneuve 10th, but the Canadian got stuck in during the race, while Frentzen appeared out of sorts after colliding with Jean Alesi on the first lap, and was forced to make an extra stop.

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Classification

Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
18 Mika HäkkinenMcLaren-Mercedes651'33:38.3110
27David CoulthardMcLaren-Mercedes65+9.43926
33 Michael SchumacherFerrari65+47.09534
46 Alexander WurzBenetton-Playlife65+1:02.53853
518 Rubens BarrichelloStewart-Ford64+1 Lap92
61 Jacques VilleneuveWilliams-Mecachrome64+1 Lap101
715Johnny HerbertSauber-Petronas64+1 Lap7 
82 Heinz-Harald FrentzenWilliams-Mecachrome63+2 Laps13 
912 Jarno TrulliProst-Peugeot63+2 Laps16 
1014 Jean AlesiSauber-Petronas63+2 Laps14 
1110 Ralf SchumacherJordan-Mugen-Honda63+2 Laps11 
1219 Jan MagnussenStewart-Ford63+2 Laps18 
1321 Toranosuke TakagiTyrrell-Ford63+2 Laps21 
1422 Shinji NakanoMinardi-Ford63+2 Laps20 
1523 Esteban TueroMinardi-Ford63+2 Laps19 
1611 Olivier PanisProst-Peugeot60+5 Laps12 
Ret9Damon HillJordan-Mugen-Honda46Engine8 
Ret4Eddie IrvineFerrari28Collision6 
Ret5 Giancarlo FisichellaBenetton-Playlife28Collision4 
Ret17 Mika SaloArrows21Engine17 
Ret16 Pedro DinizArrows20Engine15 

Standings After Grand Prix

Drivers Constructers

Notes

  • Fastest Lap: Mika Häkkinen 1m 24.275s
  • This was the first race of the 1998 season in which a driver failed to qualify due to not completing a time inside 107% of the pole position time. The unfortunate driver was Ricardo Rosset
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The Circuit de Catalunya [seer-kweet-da-Cataloonya] is a racetrack in Montmeló, to the north of Barcelona, Catalonia. It is home to the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix and the motorcycle Catalonia Grand Prix.
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