1998 Austrian Grand Prix

 1998 Austrian Grand Prix

Racing data
10th of 16 races in the 1998 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	XXII Grand Prix of Austria
Date:	July 26, 1998
Place:	Spielberg
Course:	A1 ring
Length:	307.146 km in 71 laps of 4.326 km
Weather:	slightly cloudy and warm
Spectator:	~ 55,000
Pole position
Driver:	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife
Time:	1: 29.598 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes
Time:	1: 12.878 min (lap 30)
Podium
First:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Second:	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes
Third:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari

The 1998 Austrian Grand Prix (officially the XXII Austrian Grand Prix ) took place on July 26th on the A1-Ring in Spielberg and was the tenth race of the 1998 Formula 1 World Championship . The winner was Mika Häkkinen ahead of David Coulthard and Michael Schumacher .

report

training

Friday training

With a time of 1: 13.703 minutes, David Coulthard drove the fastest lap, only about a thousandth ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella and four hundredths ahead of Mika Häkkinen. The two Ferraris took seventh and eighth place, with Schumacher around seven tenths in seventh place. All drivers were placed within four and a half seconds.

Saturday training

Once again Coulthard achieved the fastest time, around two seconds faster than the day before, closely followed by Häkkinen. Irvine followed in third place, almost a second behind, Frentzen in fourth and Schumacher in fifth. All timed drivers were within three and a half seconds.

Qualifying

It started raining at the beginning of qualifying, and it wasn't until the end of the session that the track gradually dried out. Fisichella was the only one able to set a time below 1:30 minutes and took pole position ahead of Alesi, Häkkinen and Schumacher. Coulthard, who has dominated both practice sessions so far, could not cope with the wet track and only placed 14th. All placed drivers were within five and a half seconds.

Warm-up

In the warm-up, both McLaren took the first two places again, followed by around a second by the Ferraris with Schumacher in third place. Fisichella, who had reached pole position on Saturday in difficult conditions, only came in eighth.

run

Panis stopped at the start because his clutch failed. Meanwhile, Häkkinen started the best and took the lead before the first corner. Meanwhile, complete chaos broke out behind it, where many drivers collided. The trigger was Takagi, whose car broke with the rear when braking for the first corner. He touched the pit wall and hit Herbert with the rear end first. In turn two, Diniz spun while braking, like Takagi, and drove sideways into his teammate Salo. Among other things, Coulthard was hit and also spun. When Salo tried to turn with oversteer, he got into Coulthard's front wing and destroyed his right rear tire. Due to the chaos in both corners, the safety car was sent out onto the track.

At the restart, Häkkinen defended his lead and led the race from Schumacher, who was just behind him. Schumacher tried to pass Häkkinen in turn four, but misjudged himself and was briefly overtaken by Fisichella. While Barrichello almost got past Schumacher, he had to give up early due to braking problems. Schumacher was on a two-stop strategy and absolutely had to pass Häkkinen, who was driving with a one-stop strategy. When Schumacher tried to overtake Häkkinen again at corner four, he braked again and this time slipped out into the gravel. Due to the high speed, the car was shaken violently, whereupon the front wing broke away. When Schumacher picked up a new nose in the pits, he was almost a lap behind the leading Mika Häkkinen.

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front. Michael Schumacher then tried for a long time to get past his brother Ralf, who resisted doggedly. After several laps, Michael Ralf Coulthard and Schumacher started a race to catch up from the back of the field, but Frentzen's engine and Fisichella's and Alesi's accident caused them to overtake quickly and began to catch up on third-placed Irvine, who was suffering from alleged braking problems. Five laps before the end of the race, Schumacher was able to overtake Irvine in front of the Remus curve and take third place. After the race, Norbert Haug smugly commented on the scenes surrounding Irvine's braking problems:

"What? Yes, that happens towards the end of the race, when you accelerate so much and brake so late. "

- Norbert Haug

Haug was alluding to Irvine's brakes, among other things, which enabled Schumacher to take third place.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Winfield Williams	1	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams FW20	Mecachrome 3.0 V10	G
	2	Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro	3	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari F300	Ferrari 3.0 V10	G
	4th	Eddie Irvine
Mild Seven Benetton Playlife	5	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton B198	Playlife 3.0 V10	B.
	6th	Alexander Wurz
West McLaren Mercedes	7th	David Coulthard	McLaren MP4 / 13	Mercedes-Benz 3.0 V10	B.
	8th	Mika Hakkinen
Benson & Hedges Jordan	9	Damon Hill	Jordan 197	Mugen-Honda 3.0 V10	G
	10	Ralf Schumacher
Gauloises cheers Peugeot	11	Olivier Panis	Cheers AP01	Peugeot 3.0 V10	B.
	12	Jarno Trulli
Red Bull Sauber Petronas	14th	Jean Alesi	Clean C17	Petronas 3.0 V10	G
	15th	Johnny Herbert
Danka Zepter Arrows	16	Pedro Diniz	Arrows A19	Arrows 3.0 V10	B.
	17th	Mika Salo
Stewart Ford	18th	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart SF2	Ford Zetec-R 3.0 V10	B.
	19th	Jos Verstappen
Tyrrell	20th	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell 026	Ford Zetec-R / 97 3.0 V10	G
	21st	Toranosuke Takagi
Fondmetal Minardi team	22nd	Shinji Nakano	Minardi M198	Ford Zetec-R / 97 3.0 V10	B.
	23	Esteban Tuero

classification

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	time	begin
01	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	1: 29.598	01
02	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	1: 30.317	02
03	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 30.517	03
04th	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	1: 30.551	04th
05	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	1: 31.005	05
06th	Mika Salo	Arrows	1: 31.028	06th
07th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams Mecachrome	1: 31.515	07th
08th	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	1: 31.651	08th
09	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 31.917	09
10	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	1: 32.081	10
11	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams Mecachrome	1: 32.083	11
12	Jos Verstappen	Stewart-Ford	1: 32.099	12
13	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	1: 32.206	13
14th	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 32.399	14th
15th	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 32.718	15th
16	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	1: 32.906	16
17th	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	1: 33.185	17th
18th	Johnny Herbert	Clean Petronas	1: 33.205	18th
19th	Esteban Tuero	Minardi-Ford	1: 33.399	19th
20th	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 34.090	20th
21st	Shinji Nakano	Minardi-Ford	1: 34.536	21st
22nd	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 34.910	22nd
107 percent time : 1: 35.870 min (based on the best time of 1: 29.598 min)

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	71	1	1: 30: 44.086	03	1: 13.412
02	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	71	2	+5.289	14th	1: 12.878
03	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	71	2	+39.092	04th	1: 13.029
04th	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	71	2	+43.976	08th	1: 14.066
05	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	71	2	+50.654	09	1: 13.972
06th	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams Mecachrome	71	1	+53.202	11	1: 13.730
07th	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	71	2	+1: 13.624	15th	1: 14.135
08th	Johnny Herbert	Clean Petronas	70	1	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 14.639
09	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	70	2	+ 1 lap	17th	1: 14.040
10	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	70	1	+ 1 lap	16	1: 15.709
11	Shinji Nakano	Minardi-Ford	70	1	+ 1 lap	21st	1: 15.575
12	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell-Ford	69	2	+ 2 rounds	22nd	1: 16,100
-	Jos Verstappen	Stewart-Ford	51	2	DNF	12	1: 15.610
-	Esteban Tuero	Minardi-Ford	30th	3	DNF	19th	1: 15.769
-	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	21st	1	DNF	01	1: 14.044
-	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	21st	-	DNF	02	1: 14.791
-	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams Mecachrome	16	-	DNF	07th	1: 15.446
-	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	08th	-	DNF	05	1: 16.822
-	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	03	-	DNF	13	2: 02.090
-	Mika Salo	Arrows	01	-	DNF	06th	1: 57.392
-	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	00	-	DNF	10	-
-	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell-Ford	00	-	DNF	20th	-

World Cup stands after the race

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Mika Hakkinen McLaren-Mercedes 66 02  Michael sSchumacher Ferrari 58 03  David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 36 04th  Eddie Irvine Ferrari 32 05  Alexander Wurz Benetton Playlife 17th 06th  Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton Playlife 15th 07th  Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault 12 08th  Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams Mecachrome 8th 09  Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 4th 10  Jean Alesi Clean Petronas 3 10  Mika Salo Arrows 3 10  Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Mugen-Honda 3

Item driver constructor Points 13  Johnny Herbert Clean Petronas 1 13  Pedro Diniz Arrows 1 13  Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 1 -  Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 0 -  Olivier Panis Cheers Peugeot 0 -  Jarno Trulli Cheers Peugeot 0 -  Ricardo Rosset Tyrrell-Ford 0 -  Esteban Tuero Minardi-Ford 0 -  Shinji Nakano Minardi-Ford 0 -  Toranosuke Takagi Tyrrell-Ford 0 -  Jos Verstappen Stewart-Ford 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  McLaren-Mercedes 102 02  Ferrari 90 03  Benetton Playlife 32 04th  Williams Mecachrome 20th 05  Stewart-Ford 5 06th  Clean Petronas 4th

Item constructor Points 06th  Arrows 4th 07th  Jordan-Mugen-Honda 3 -  Tyrrell-Ford 0 -  Cheers Peugeot 0 -  Minardi-Ford 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Friday training Austria 1998 ( Memento from November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Austria 1998
3. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Saturday training Austria 1998 ( Memento from November 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Austria 1998
5. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Qualifying Austria 1998 ( Memento from November 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Austria 1998
7. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Warm-Up Austria 1998 ( Memento from August 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Austria 1998
9. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Race Austria 1998 ( Memento from November 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Race Austria 1998