1998 Australian Grand Prix

Circuit: Albert ParkMelbourne, Australia
Winner: Mika HakkinenMcLaren
Pole: Mika Hakkinen
Fastest lap: Mika Hakkinen
Entries: 229 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4/13	1	58	Finished	10	fastest lap
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4/13	2	58	Finished	6
3	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	FW20	6	57	Finished	4
4	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	F300	8	57	Finished	3
5	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	FW20	4	57	Finished	2
6	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	C17	5	57	Finished	1
7	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	B198	11	57	Finished	0
8	Damon Hill	Jordan	198	10	57	Finished	0
9	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	AP01	21	57	Finished	0
DNF	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	B198	7	43	Broken wing	0
DNF	Jean Alesi	Sauber	C17	12	41	Engine	0
DNF	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	AP01	15	26	Gearbox	0
DNF	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	22	19	25	Gearbox	0
DNF	Mika Salo	Arrows	A19	16	23	Gearbox	0
DNF	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	M198	17	22	Engine	0
DNF	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	M198	22	8	Halfshaft	0
DNF	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F300	3	5	Engine	0
DNF	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	A19	20	2	Gearbox	0
DNF	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	198	9	1	Collision	0
DNF	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	SF02	18	1	Collision	0
DNF	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	22	13	1	Spun off	0
DNF	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	SF02	14	0	Gearbox	0

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Mika Hakkinen	1	1	58
David Coulthard	2	2	58
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	6	3	57
Eddie Irvine	8	4	57
Jacques Villeneuve	4	5	57
Johnny Herbert	5	6	57
Alexander Wurz	11	7	57
Damon Hill	10	8	57
Olivier Panis	21	9	57
Giancarlo Fisichella	7	DNF	43
Jean Alesi	12	DNF	41
Jarno Trulli	15	DNF	26
Ricardo Rosset	19	DNF	25
Mika Salo	16	DNF	23
Esteban Tuero	17	DNF	22
Shinji Nakano	22	DNF	8
Michael Schumacher	3	DNF	5
Pedro Diniz	20	DNF	2
Ralf Schumacher	9	DNF	1
Jan Magnussen	18	DNF	1
Toranosuke Takagi	13	DNF	1
Rubens Barrichello	14	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:30.010	—	—
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:30.053	+0.043	+0.043
3	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:30.767	+0.757	+0.714
4	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:30.919	+0.909	+0.152
5	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:31.384	+1.374	+0.465
6	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:31.397	+1.387	+0.013
7	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:31.733	+1.723	+0.336
8	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:31.767	+1.757	+0.034
9	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:32.392	+2.382	+0.625
10	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:32.399	+2.389	+0.007
11	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:32.726	+2.716	+0.327
12	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:33.240	+3.230	+0.514
13	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:33.291	+3.281	+0.051
14	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:33.383	+3.373	+0.092
15	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:33.739	+3.729	+0.356
16	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	1:33.851	+3.841	+0.112
17	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:33.927	+3.917	+0.076
18	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:34.646	+4.636	+0.719
19	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:34.906	+4.896	+0.260
20	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	20	1:35.119	+5.109	+0.213
21	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:35.140	+5.130	+0.021
22	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:35.301	+5.291	+0.161

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked on each lap a driver stopped. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Only the lap is recorded: not a stop’s length, tyres or gain.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap
Mika Hakkinen	1	58	3	24, 36, 40
David Coulthard	2	58	2	25, 42
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	3	57	1	33
Eddie Irvine	4	57	1	33
Jacques Villeneuve	5	57	1	28
Johnny Herbert	6	57	1	27
Alexander Wurz	7	57	2	20, 36
Damon Hill	8	57	2	19, 39
Olivier Panis	9	57	1	28
Giancarlo Fisichella	DNF	43	2	22, 41
Jean Alesi	DNF	41	1	29
Jarno Trulli	DNF	26	0	None recorded
Ricardo Rosset	DNF	25	1	18
Mika Salo	DNF	23	1	19
Esteban Tuero	DNF	22	2	12, 18
Shinji Nakano	DNF	8	1	8
Michael Schumacher	DNF	5	0	None recorded
Pedro Diniz	DNF	2	0	None recorded
Ralf Schumacher	DNF	1	0	None recorded
Jan Magnussen	DNF	1	0	None recorded
Toranosuke Takagi	DNF	1	0	None recorded
Rubens Barrichello	DNF	0	0	None recorded

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Mika Hakkinen · David Coulthard	1 · 2	1 · 2	24 · 25	Mika Hakkinen	Kept their order
David Coulthard · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	2 · 6	2 · 3	25 · 33	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Johnny Herbert · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	5 · 6	6 · 3	27 · 33	Johnny Herbert	Swapped places
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Eddie Irvine	6 · 8	3 · 4	33 · 33	Same lap	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Eddie Irvine	4 · 8	5 · 4	28 · 33	Jacques Villeneuve	Swapped places
Jacques Villeneuve · Johnny Herbert	4 · 5	5 · 6	28 · 27	Johnny Herbert	Kept their order
Johnny Herbert · Alexander Wurz	5 · 11	6 · 7	27 · 20	Alexander Wurz	Kept their order
Damon Hill · Alexander Wurz	10 · 11	8 · 7	19 · 20	Damon Hill	Swapped places
Damon Hill · Olivier Panis	10 · 21	8 · 9	19 · 28	Damon Hill	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no stop duration and no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Warm-up

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:33.826	—	—	15
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:34.432	+0.606	+0.606	12
3	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:35.023	+1.197	+0.591	24
4	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:35.270	+1.444	+0.247	21
5	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:35.409	+1.583	+0.139	14
6	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:35.708	+1.882	+0.299	14
7	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:35.876	+2.050	+0.168	10
8	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:36.095	+2.269	+0.219	9
9	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:36.231	+2.405	+0.136	17
10	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:36.741	+2.915	+0.510	17
11	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:36.897	+3.071	+0.156	16
12	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:37.023	+3.197	+0.126	12
13	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:37.102	+3.276	+0.079	19
14	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	1:37.102	+3.276	+0.000	15
15	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	20	1:37.144	+3.318	+0.042	25
16	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:37.605	+3.779	+0.461	8
17	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:37.891	+4.065	+0.286	14
18	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:37.928	+4.102	+0.037	8
19	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:38.817	+4.991	+0.889	26
20	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:38.860	+5.034	+0.043	17
21	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:39.044	+5.218	+0.184	8
22	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	2:16.609	+42.783	+37.565	5

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:30.456	—	—	24
2	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:31.178	+0.722	+0.722	23
3	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:31.432	+0.976	+0.254	33
4	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:31.436	+0.980	+0.004	25
5	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:31.581	+1.125	+0.145	28
6	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:31.624	+1.168	+0.043	30
7	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:31.870	+1.414	+0.246	29
8	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:32.465	+2.009	+0.595	25
9	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:32.514	+2.058	+0.049	26
10	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:32.518	+2.062	+0.004	29
11	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:32.667	+2.211	+0.149	20
12	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:33.588	+3.132	+0.921	12
13	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:33.965	+3.509	+0.377	23
14	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:34.543	+4.087	+0.578	16
15	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:34.600	+4.144	+0.057	17
16	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:34.837	+4.381	+0.237	22
17	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	20	1:35.010	+4.554	+0.173	29
18	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:35.069	+4.613	+0.059	25
19	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:35.539	+5.083	+0.470	8
20	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:35.850	+5.394	+0.311	33
21	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	1:35.913	+5.457	+0.063	14
22	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:36.351	+5.895	+0.438	4

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:34.126	—	—	12
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:34.257	+0.131	+0.131	11
3	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:34.346	+0.220	+0.089	12
4	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:35.030	+0.904	+0.684	15
5	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:35.033	+0.907	+0.003	12
6	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:35.081	+0.955	+0.048	12
7	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:35.192	+1.066	+0.111	11
8	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:35.215	+1.089	+0.023	14
9	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:35.401	+1.275	+0.186	12
10	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:35.411	+1.285	+0.010	13
11	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:35.497	+1.371	+0.086	9
12	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:36.021	+1.895	+0.524	10
13	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:36.081	+1.955	+0.060	11
14	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:36.160	+2.034	+0.079	8
15	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:36.246	+2.120	+0.086	15
16	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:36.257	+2.131	+0.011	13
17	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:36.690	+2.564	+0.433	7
18	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:36.868	+2.742	+0.178	9
19	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	1:37.215	+3.089	+0.347	11
20	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:37.482	+3.356	+0.267	15
21	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:37.772	+3.646	+0.290	12
22	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	20	1:38.487	+4.361	+0.715	11

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

The cars in this race

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Sauber C17
Sauber C17 · Raoul van Wijk · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 1998
Grand Prix: Australian Grand Prix
Dates: 8 Mar 1998
Layout raced: Original layout · 5.303 km · 16 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-Mercedes
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.