1998 Spanish Grand Prix
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5th of 16 races in the 1998 Formula 1 World Championship | ||
Surname: | XL Gran Premio Marlboro de España | |
Date: | May 10, 1998 | |
Place: | Montmeló | |
Course: | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya | |
Length: | 307.32 km in 65 laps of 4.728 km
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Weather: | sunny and warm | |
Spectator: | ~ 65,000 | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Mika Hakkinen | McLaren-Mercedes |
Time: | 1: 20.262 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Mika Hakkinen | McLaren-Mercedes |
Time: | 1: 24.275 min (lap 25) | |
Podium | ||
First: | Mika Hakkinen | McLaren-Mercedes |
Second: | David Coulthard | McLaren-Mercedes |
Third: | Michael sSchumacher |
Ferrari
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Leadership laps
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The 1998 Spanish Grand Prix (officially XL Gran Premio Marlboro de España ) took place on May 10th at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló and was the fifth race of the 1998 Formula 1 World Championship . Mika Häkkinen took first place ahead of David Coulthard and Michael Schumacher .
report
background
Ford brings an improved engine and Stewart an improved chassis for this race weekend, but only Barrichello can use both.
training
Friday training
With 1: 22.147, Häkkinen was around eight tenths faster than his second-placed team-mate Coulthard. Behind them are Herbert, Irvine, Michael Schumacher and Heinz-Harald Frentzen.
All drivers were placed within four and a half seconds.
Saturday training
Once again, Häkkinen was the fastest of the session ahead of Coulthard. This is followed by Fisichella, Wurz and Irvine.
All drivers were placed within five seconds.
Qualifying
For the third time, Häkkinen is on pole position in front of his teammate, who was eight tenths behind. Michael Schumacher follows in third place, around one and a half seconds behind, as do Fisichella, Wurz and Irvine.
All drivers were placed within five and a half seconds. Ricardo Rosset was unable to qualify for the race due to the 107 percent rule. It was only six hundredths over the allotted time, in the free practice sessions it only achieved times that were more than four or five seconds behind the daily best. This is the smallest distance so far that a driver could not qualify. Only Damon Hill was able to undercut this in qualifying for the 1999 French Grand Prix when he was only allowed to start by three thousandths. But he was still allowed to race due to an exception or previous training performance.
Warm-up
For the fourth time, Häkkinen was fastest, again eight tenths faster than his team-mate Coulthard. Fisichella, Panis and Schumacher follow behind.
All drivers were within five seconds, Rosset was not allowed to compete in the session because he was not qualified for the race.
run
The race was unspectacular and was dominated by both McLarens. Arrows driver Pedro Diniz had to start out of the pits because his car broke down due to a battery failure. At the start, the McLarens got off well and were able to extend their lead, while Michael Schumacher got off badly and fell back to fifth, directly behind his team-mates Irvine and Fisichella. Nothing will change in these positions until the first series of pit stops. On the first lap, Alesi and Frentzen collided with each other, but both were able to continue the race.
The unbelievable happened on lap 22, when the engines of both Arrows drivers went up while overtaking each other at the start-finish line. For this season, the Arrows team is purchasing an Arrows 3.0 V10 engine, which was developed and built by Hart Racing Engines , a company owned by team boss Tom Walkinshaw .
Irvine and Fisichella pitted at the same time. Irvine purposely blocked Fisichella to give Schumacher a head start. But after the pit stop, the constellation remained the same. On lap 28, Fisichella tried to pass Irvine on the outside, but failed: Fisichella hits Irvine and spins and Irvine off the track, where both got stuck in the gravel. After the race, an angry Fisichella said that after he got out he asked Irvine if he was an idiot . After the race, Fisichella was fined $ 7,500
This accident meant that the second Benetton driver, Alexander Wurz, inherited fourth place and Schumacher drove up to third place without a fight. Both were able to hold their positions until the end of the race.
Häkkinen was consistently faster than his team-mate Coulthard, who drove an exactly identical car to the Finn. In the last lap, Frentzen improved from eleventh to eighth. However , he inherited eighth place because the marshals mistakenly showed the Jarno Trulli driving in front of him the blue flag. The reason for the error was that the marshals assumed that a Ferrari was approaching the Prost driver. After the end, Trulli said he was very upset that he had to give up this great fight because of their (marshals, note) blindness .
Registration list
classification
Qualifying
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap |
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1 | Mika Hakkinen | McLaren-Mercedes | 65 | 2 | 1: 33: 37.621 | 1 | 1: 24.275 |
2 | David Coulthard | McLaren-Mercedes | 65 | 2 | + 9.439 | 2 | 1: 24.778 |
3 | Michael sSchumacher | Ferrari | 65 | 3 | + 47.095 | 3 | 1: 24.625 |
4th | Alexander Wurz | Benetton Playlife | 65 | 2 | +1: 02.538 | 5 | 1: 25.343 |
5 | Rubens Barrichello | Stewart-Ford | 64 | 2 | + 1 lap | 9 | 1: 26.532 |
6th | Jacques Villeneuve | Williams Mecachrome | 64 | 2 | + 1 lap | 10 | 1: 26.407 |
7th | Johnny Herbert | Clean Petronas | 64 | 2 | + 1 lap | 7th | 1: 26.354 |
8th | Heinz-Harald Frentzen | Williams Mecachrome | 63 | 3 | + 2 rounds | 13 | 1: 26.011 |
9 | Jarno Trulli | Cheers Peugeot | 63 | 2 | + 2 rounds | 16 | 1: 26.394 |
10 | Jean Alesi | Clean Petronas | 63 | 2 | + 2 rounds | 14th | 1: 25.668 |
11 | Ralf Schumacher | Jordan-Mugen-Honda | 63 | 2 | + 2 rounds | 11 | 1: 26.533 |
12 | Jan Magnussen | Stewart-Ford | 63 | 2 | + 2 rounds | 18th | 1: 27.203 |
13 | Toranosuke Takagi | Tyrrell-Ford | 63 | 2 | + 2 rounds | 21st | 1: 28.066 |
14th | Shinji Nakano | Minardi-Ford | 63 | 2 | + 2 rounds | 20th | 1: 27.767 |
15th | Esteban Tuero | Minardi-Ford | 63 | 3 | + 2 rounds | 19th | 1: 27.601 |
16 | Olivier Panis | Cheers Peugeot | 60 | 2 | DNF | 12 | 1: 26.502 |
- | Damon Hill | Jordan-Mugen-Honda | 46 | 2 | DNF | 8th | 1: 26.501 |
- | Eddie Irvine | Ferrari | 28 | 1 | DNF | 6th | 1: 25.778 |
- | Giancarlo Fisichella | Benetton Playlife | 28 | 1 | DNF | 4th | 1: 25.851 |
- | Mika Salo | Arrows | 21st | - | DNF | 17th | 1: 27.767 |
- | Pedro Diniz | Arrows | 20th | - | DNF | 15th | 1: 27.638 |
- | Ricardo Rosset | Tyrrell-Ford | - | - | DNQ | - | - |
World Cup stands after the race
Driver ranking
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Constructors' championship
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Individual evidence
- ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Overview Spain 1998 ( Memento from December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b atlasf2.autosport.com Häkkinen increases Championship lead (Spanish GP)
- ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Friday training Spain 1998 ( Memento from September 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Spain 1998
- ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Saturday training Spain 1998 ( Memento from October 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Spain 1998
- ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Qualifying Spain 1998 ( Memento from November 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Spain 1998
- ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Warm-Up Spain 1998 ( Memento from November 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Spain 1998
- ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Race Spain 1998 ( Memento from October 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Race Spain 1998