1998 Italian Grand Prix

 1998 Italian Grand Prix

Racing data
14th of 16 races in the 1998 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	LIX Gran Premio Campari d'Italia
Date:	September 13, 1998
Place:	Monza
Course:	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Length:	305.81 km in 53 laps of 5.77 km
Weather:	sunny and warm
Spectator:	~ 190,000
Pole position
Driver:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari
Time:	1: 25.289 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
Time:	1: 25.139 min (lap 45)
Podium
First:	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari
Second:	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari
Third:	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan-Mugen-Honda

The 1998 Italian Grand Prix (officially LIX Gran Premio Campari d'Italia ) took place on September 13th at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza and was the 14th race of the 1998 Formula 1 World Championship . Michael Schumacher was the winner ahead of Eddie Irvine and Ralf Schumacher .

report

background

This race was the 600th race start for Ferrari as a team.

training

Friday training

Eddie Irvine was the fastest driver with 1: 24.937 minutes, followed by Michael Schumacher, David Coulthard, Jacques Villeneuve and Mika Häkkinen. Except for Pedro Diniz and Jean Alesi, who had problems with their cars, all drivers were within four and a half seconds.

Saturday training

The training session on Saturday was rainy. As a result, the times were much slower than the day before. Heinz-Harald Frentzen was the fastest driver with 1: 39.479 minutes, followed by Ralf Schumacher, Giancarlo Fisichella, David Coulthard and Mika Häkkinen about half a second behind. Michael Schumacher only reached tenth place, about a second behind. All drivers were placed within nine and a half seconds.

Qualifying

Michael Schumacher took pole position with a time of 1: 26.289 minutes, followed by Jacques Villeneuve, Mika Häkkinen, David Coulthard and Eddie Irvine. Häkkinen was four tenths of a second behind Schumacher. All drivers were placed within four seconds, the last placed Esteban Tuero beat the 107 percent time limit by around two seconds.

Warm-up

With a time of 1: 25.632 minutes, David Coulthard was the fastest driver in the warm-up, followed by Mika Häkkinen, Michael Schumacher and Toranosuke Takagi in the Tyrrell. All drivers were placed within four and a half seconds.

run

Jacques Villeneuve in the race

Häkkinen got off to a good start, overtaking Eddie Irvine and Michael Schumacher and taking the lead, while Schumacher dropped to fifth place. However, Schumacher soon overtook Villeneuve and Irvine and moved up to third place. During the race, Häkkinen's car developed braking problems, after which he gave Coulthard the lead, but his engine failed a little later. Häkkinen tried to compensate for the problems by shifting the braking force distribution forward. A little later, however, his competitor for the world championship, Michael Schumacher, took the lead after Häkkinen had slowed down. Häkkinen was initially able to keep up with Schumacher, he was only three seconds behind. He spun off the track in the Roggia chicane when his rear brakes finally failed. Still, he finished fourth. Ferrari scored a double victory in the home race with Michael Schumacher in first place, followed by Eddie Irvine and his brother Ralf Schumacher. It was the first time that the Schumacher brothers stood together on the podium. With this victory, Michael Schumacher achieved the same number of points as Mika Häkkinen, namely 80.

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	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	1: 25.289	01
02	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams Mecachrome	1: 25.561	02
03	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 25.679	03
04th	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	1: 25.987	04th
05	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	1: 26.159	05
06th	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 26.309	06th
07th	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	1: 26.567	07th
08th	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	1: 26.637	08th
09	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	1: 26.681	09
10	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	1: 26.794	10
11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	1: 26.817	11
12	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams Mecachrome	1: 26.836	12
13	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	1: 27.247	13
14th	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	1: 27.362	14th
15th	Johnny Herbert	Clean Petronas	1: 27.510	15th
16	Mika Salo	Arrows	1: 27.744	16
17th	Jos Verstappen	Stewart-Ford	1: 28.212	17th
18th	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 28.286	18th
19th	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell-Ford	1: 28.346	19th
20th	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	1: 28.387	20th
21st	Shinji Nakano	Minardi-Ford	1: 29.101	21st
22nd	Esteban Tuero	Minardi-Ford	1: 29.417	22nd
107 percent time : 1: 31.259 min (based on the best time of 1: 25.289 min)

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Michael sSchumacher	Ferrari	53	1	1: 17: 09.672	01	1: 25.483
02	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	53	1	+ 37.977	05	1: 26.359
03	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	53	1	+ 41.152	06th	1: 26.194
04th	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	53	1	+ 55.671	03	1: 25.139
05	Jean Alesi	Clean Petronas	53	1	+1: 01.872	08th	1: 26.840
06th	Damon Hill	Jordan-Mugen-Honda	53	2	+1: 06.688	14th	1: 26.730
07th	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams Mecachrome	52	1	+ 1 lap	12	1: 26.656
08th	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton Playlife	52	1	+ 1 lap	11	1: 26.659
09	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell-Ford	52	2	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 27.726
10	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart-Ford	52	2	+ 1 lap	13	1: 27.770
11	Esteban Tuero	Minardi-Ford	51	1	+ 2 rounds	22nd	1: 29.093
12	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell-Ford	51	1	+ 2 rounds	18th	1: 29.393
13	Jarno Trulli	Cheers Peugeot	50	1	+ 3 rounds	10	1: 26.285
-	Jos Verstappen	Stewart-Ford	39	2	DNF	17th	1: 28.583
-	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams Mecachrome	37	1	DNF	02	1: 26.479
-	Mika Salo	Arrows	32	1	DNF	16	1: 27.866
-	Alexander Wurz	Benetton Playlife	24	-	DNF	07th	1: 27.620
-	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	16	-	DNF	04th	1: 25,959
-	Olivier Panis	Cheers Peugeot	15th	2	DNF	09	1: 28.395
-	Shinji Nakano	Minardi-Ford	13	-	DNF	21st	1: 29.853
-	Johnny Herbert	Clean Petronas	12	-	DNF	15th	1: 29.092
-	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	10	-	DNF	20th	1: 29.124

World Cup stands after the race

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Mika Hakkinen McLaren-Mercedes 80 02  Michael sSchumacher Ferrari 80 03  David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 48 04th  Eddie Irvine Ferrari 38 05  Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault 20th 06th  Alexander Wurz Benetton Playlife 17th 06th  Damon Hill Jordan-Mugen-Honda 17th 08th  Giancarlo Fisichella Benetton Playlife 15th 09  Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Mugen-Honda 14th 10  Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams Mecachrome 13 11  Jean Alesi Clean Petronas 9 12  Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 4th

Item driver constructor Points 13  Mika Salo Arrows 3 13  Pedro Diniz Arrows 3 15th  Johnny Herbert Clean Petronas 1 15th  Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 1 15th  Jarno Trulli Cheers Peugeot 1 -  Olivier Panis 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 128 02  Ferrari 118 03  Williams Mecachrome 33 04th  Benetton Playlife 32 05  Jordan-Mugen-Honda 31 06th  Clean Petronas 10

Item constructor Points 07th  Arrows 6th 08th  Stewart-Ford 5 09  Cheers Peugeot 1 -  Tyrrell-Ford 0 -  Minardi-Ford 0

Individual evidence

1. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Friday training Austria 1998 ( Memento from April 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Austria 1998
3. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Saturday training Austria 1998 ( Memento from May 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Austria 1998
5. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Qualifying Austria 1998 ( Memento from May 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Austria 1998
7. ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Warm-Up Austria 1998 ( Memento from May 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Austria 1998
9. ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Race Italy 1998 ( Memento from November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Race Austria 1998

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