1998 German Grand Prix

 1998 German Grand Prix

Racing data
11th of 16 races in the 1998 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	Grand Mobil 1 Prize from Germany
Date:	August 2, 1998
Place:	Hockenheim
Course:	Hockenheimring
Length:	307.035 km in 45 laps of 6.823 km
Weather:	overcast, dry and cool
Spectator:	~ 140,000
Pole position
Driver:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Time:	1: 41.838 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes
Time:	1: 46.116 min (lap 17)
Podium
First:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Second:	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes
Third:	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams Mecachrome

The 1998 Grand Prix of Germany (officially the Grand Mobil 1 Prize of Germany ) took place on August 2nd at the Hockenheimring in Hockenheim and was the eleventh round of the 1998 Formula 1 World Championship . Mika Häkkinen won the race ahead of David Coulthard and Jacques Villeneuve .

report

background

Rosset was not allowed to start the race from the doctors because of health problems, but he was allowed to participate in the training sessions. Williams and Ferrari brought a modified version of the previous car to the race weekend. Both new cars had a longer wheelbase. Furthermore, the Ferrari had a new braking system, whereupon McLaren protested. Ferrari removed the braking system on Saturday in order to start legally.

McLaren confirmed Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard as drivers for next year on Saturday.

training

Friday training

Häkkinen was the only driver to achieve a time below 1:44 minutes with 1: 43.946 minutes. Coulthard, Hill, Alesi, Michael Schumacher, Irvine and Villeneuve followed. All drivers were within six seconds.

Saturday training

Häkkinen had to admit defeat to his teammate Coulthard by 0.169 seconds, who achieved the fastest lap time in the second practice with 1: 43.006 minutes. It was followed by Villeneuve and Hill. All drivers, with the exception of Panis, who did not set a time, were placed within five and a half seconds.

Qualifying

Rosset did not attend the session because of the health problems. With a best time of 1: 41.838 minutes, Mika Häkkinen achieved pole position, around half a second ahead of his team-mate David Coulthard and Jacques Villeneuve. Michael Schumacher could not find his way around after problems with the new car and switched back to the old car. Due to the little experience with the car on the track, he only qualified in ninth place. All qualified drivers were within five and a half seconds.

Warm-up

In the warm-up, Mercedes again achieved the fastest time through Coulthard, who was the fastest with 1: 44.812 minutes. Ralf Schumacher, Mika Häkkinen and Jacques Villeneuve followed. All drivers were placed within four seconds.

run

Before the start of the race it started to rain slightly. The race was dominated by Mercedes, both cars moved straight away from the start on positions one and two. Only Ralf Schumacher, who started with little gasoline in the tank, could almost keep up with the Silver Arrows. Panis received a stop-and-go penalty for a jump start. Ralf Schumacher pitted on lap 14 to make his first of two stops. He came back on track in tenth. Jos Verstappen had to give up the race on lap 24 due to transmission problems, three laps later his team-mate Barrichello retired with the same defect. Later, Nakano and Herbert also gave up because of the gearbox. At the only stop, Häkkinen refueled too little and had to drive to save fuel. This enabled Coulthard to approach within half a second, closely followed by Villeneuve in 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	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 41.838	01
02	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 42.347	02
03	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams Mecachrome	1: 42.365	03
04th	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 42.994	04th
05	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 43.183	05
06th	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	1: 43.270	06th
07th	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	1: 43.341	07th
08th	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	1: 43.369	08th
09	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	1: 43.459	09
10	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams Mecachrome	1: 43.467	10
11	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	1: 43.663	11
12	Johnny Herbert	Clean Petronas	1: 44.599	12
13	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	1,44,776	13
14th	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	1: 44.844	14th
15th	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 44.961	15th
16	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	1: 45.197	16
17th	Mika Salo	Arrows	1: 45.276	17th
18th	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	1: 45.588	18th
19th	Jos Verstappen	Stewart-Ford	1: 45.623	19th
20th	Shinji Nakano	Minardi-Ford	1: 46.713	20th
21st	Esteban Tuero	Minardi-Ford	1: 47: 265	21st
107 percent time : 1: 48.967 min (based on the best time of 1: 41.838 min)
INJ	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell-Ford	-	-

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	45	1	1: 20: 47.984	01	1: 46.252
02	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	45	1	+ 0.426	02	1: 46.116
03	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams Mecachrome	45	1	+ 2.577	03	1: 46.274
04th	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	45	1	+ 7.185	05	1: 46.317
05	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	45	1	+ 12.613	09	1: 46.381
06th	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	45	2	+ 29.738	04th	1: 46.350
07th	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	45	1	+ 31.026	08th	1: 46.831
08th	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	45	1	+ 31.649	06th	1: 46.459
09	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams Mecachrome	45	1	+ 32.784	10	1: 46.890
10	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	45	1	+ 48.371	11	1: 46.964
11	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	45	1	+ 57.994	07th	1: 46.880
12	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	44	1	+ 1 lap	14th	1: 48.446
13	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell-Ford	44	1	+ 1 lap	15th	1: 48.608
14th	Mika Salo	Arrows	44	1	+ 1 lap	17th	1: 48.899
15th	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	44	3	+ 1 lap	16	1: 47.775
16	Esteban Tuero	Minardi-Ford	43	1	+ 2 rounds	21st	1: 50.314
-	Johnny Herbert	Clean Petronas	37	1	DNF	12	1: 47.345
-	Shinji Nakano	Minardi-Ford	36	1	DNF	20th	1: 49.424
-	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	27	1	DNF	13	1: 47.544
-	Jos Verstappen	Stewart-Ford	24	1	DNF	19th	1: 49.147
-	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	02	-	DNF	18th	1: 51.259
-	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell-Ford	-	-	INJ	-	-

World Cup stands after the race

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Mika Hakkinen McLaren-Mercedes 76 02  Michael sSchumacher Ferrari 60 03  David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 42 04th  Eddie Irvine Ferrari 32 05  Alexander Wurz Benetton Playlife 17th 06th  Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault 16 07th  Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton Playlife 15th 08th  Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams Mecachrome 8th 09  Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 4th 09  Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Mugen-Honda 4th 11  Jean Alesi Clean Petronas 3 11  Mika Salo Arrows 3

Item driver constructor Points 11  Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 3 14th  Johnny Herbert Clean Petronas 1 14th  Pedro Diniz Arrows 1 14th  Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 1 -  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 118 02  Ferrari 92 03  Benetton Playlife 32 04th  Williams Mecachrome 24 05  Jordan-Mugen-Honda 7th 06th  Stewart-Ford 5

Item constructor Points 07th  Clean Petronas 4th 07th  Arrows 4th -  Tyrrell-Ford 0 -  Cheers Peugeot 0 -  Minardi-Ford 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Friday training Germany 1998 ( Memento from October 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Germany 1998
3. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Saturday training Germany 1998 ( Memento from August 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Germany 1998
5. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Qualifying Germany 1998 ( Memento from August 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Germany 1998
7. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Warm-Up Germany 1998 ( Memento from November 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Germany 1998
9. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Race Germany 1998 ( Memento from November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
10. ^ Motorsport-magazin.com Race Germany 1998