Race · Round 11 of 16 · 2 August 1998

1998 German Grand Prix

Mika Hakkinen won for McLaren from pole at Hockenheimring. 5 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: HockenheimringHockenheim, Germany
Winner: Mika HakkinenMcLaren
Pole: Mika Hakkinen
Fastest lap: David Coulthard
Entries: 2216 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4/13	1	45	Finished	10
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4/13	2	45	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	FW20	3	45	Finished	4
4	Damon Hill	Jordan	198	5	45	Finished	3
5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F300	9	45	Finished	2
6	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	198	4	45	Finished	1
7	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	B198	8	45	Finished	0
8	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	F300	6	45	Finished	0
9	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	FW20	10	45	Finished	0
10	Jean Alesi	Sauber	C17	11	45	Finished	0
11	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	B198	7	45	Finished	0
12	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	AP01	14	44	Finished	0
13	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	22	15	44	Finished	0
14	Mika Salo	Arrows	A19	17	44	Finished	0
15	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	AP01	16	44	Finished	0
16	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	M198	21	43	Finished	0
DNF	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	C17	12	37	Gearbox	0
DNF	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	M198	20	36	Gearbox	0
DNF	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	SF02	13	27	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jos Verstappen	Stewart Grand Prix	SF02	19	24	Gearbox	0
DNF	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	A19	18	2	Throttle	0
DNQ	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	22	—	—	DNQ	0

F1DB layout hockenheimring-3 · 6.815 km · 16 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

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	45
David Coulthard	2	2	45
Jacques Villeneuve	3	3	45
Damon Hill	5	4	45
Michael Schumacher	9	5	45
Ralf Schumacher	4	6	45
Giancarlo Fisichella	8	7	45
Eddie Irvine	6	8	45
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	10	9	45
Jean Alesi	11	10	45
Alexander Wurz	7	11	45
Jarno Trulli	14	12	44
Toranosuke Takagi	15	13	44
Mika Salo	17	14	44
Olivier Panis	16	15	44
Esteban Tuero	21	16	43
Johnny Herbert	12	DNF	37
Shinji Nakano	20	DNF	36
Rubens Barrichello	13	DNF	27
Jos Verstappen	19	DNF	24
Pedro Diniz	18	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:41.838	—	—
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:42.347	+0.509	+0.509
3	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:42.365	+0.527	+0.018
4	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:42.994	+1.156	+0.629
5	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:43.183	+1.345	+0.189
6	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:43.270	+1.432	+0.087
7	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:43.341	+1.503	+0.071
8	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:43.369	+1.531	+0.028
9	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:43.459	+1.621	+0.090
10	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:43.467	+1.629	+0.008
11	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:43.663	+1.825	+0.196
12	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:44.599	+2.761	+0.936
13	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:44.776	+2.938	+0.177
14	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:44.844	+3.006	+0.068
15	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:44.961	+3.123	+0.117
16	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	1:45.197	+3.359	+0.236
17	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:45.276	+3.438	+0.079
18	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:45.588	+3.750	+0.312
19	Jos Verstappen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:45.623	+3.785	+0.035
20	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:46.713	+4.875	+1.090
21	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:47.265	+5.427	+0.552

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	45	1	26
David Coulthard	2	45	1	27
Jacques Villeneuve	3	45	1	23
Damon Hill	4	45	1	23
Michael Schumacher	5	45	1	24
Ralf Schumacher	6	45	2	14, 29
Giancarlo Fisichella	7	45	1	22
Eddie Irvine	8	45	1	25
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	9	45	1	22
Jean Alesi	10	45	1	21
Alexander Wurz	11	45	1	23
Jarno Trulli	12	44	1	24
Toranosuke Takagi	13	44	1	20
Mika Salo	14	44	1	24
Olivier Panis	15	44	3	7, 22, 36
Esteban Tuero	16	43	1	19
Johnny Herbert	DNF	37	1	22
Shinji Nakano	DNF	36	1	24
Rubens Barrichello	DNF	27	1	15
Jos Verstappen	DNF	24	1	23
Pedro Diniz	DNF	2	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	26 · 27	Mika Hakkinen	Kept their order
David Coulthard · Jacques Villeneuve	2 · 3	2 · 3	27 · 23	Jacques Villeneuve	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Damon Hill	3 · 5	3 · 4	23 · 23	Same lap	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Ralf Schumacher	3 · 4	3 · 6	23 · 14	Ralf Schumacher	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · Damon Hill	4 · 5	6 · 4	14 · 23	Ralf Schumacher	Swapped places
Damon Hill · Michael Schumacher	5 · 9	4 · 5	23 · 24	Damon Hill	Kept their order
Damon Hill · Eddie Irvine	5 · 6	4 · 8	23 · 25	Damon Hill	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · Michael Schumacher	4 · 9	6 · 5	14 · 24	Ralf Schumacher	Swapped places
Giancarlo Fisichella · Michael Schumacher	8 · 9	7 · 5	22 · 24	Giancarlo Fisichella	Swapped places
Michael Schumacher · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	9 · 10	5 · 9	24 · 22	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Ralf Schumacher · Giancarlo Fisichella	4 · 8	6 · 7	14 · 22	Ralf Schumacher	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Giancarlo Fisichella	6 · 8	8 · 7	25 · 22	Giancarlo Fisichella	Swapped places
Alexander Wurz · Giancarlo Fisichella	7 · 8	11 · 7	23 · 22	Giancarlo Fisichella	Swapped places
Eddie Irvine · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	6 · 10	8 · 9	25 · 22	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Alexander Wurz	6 · 7	8 · 11	25 · 23	Alexander Wurz	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Jean Alesi	10 · 11	9 · 10	22 · 21	Jean Alesi	Kept their order
Alexander Wurz · Jean Alesi	7 · 11	11 · 10	23 · 21	Jean Alesi	Swapped places
Alexander Wurz · Jarno Trulli	7 · 14	11 · 12	23 · 24	Alexander Wurz	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Toranosuke Takagi	14 · 15	12 · 13	24 · 20	Toranosuke Takagi	Kept their order
Toranosuke Takagi · Mika Salo	15 · 17	13 · 14	20 · 24	Toranosuke Takagi	Kept their order
Toranosuke Takagi · Olivier Panis	15 · 16	13 · 15	20 · 7	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Olivier Panis · Mika Salo	16 · 17	15 · 14	7 · 24	Olivier Panis	Swapped places
Olivier Panis · Esteban Tuero	16 · 21	15 · 16	7 · 19	Olivier Panis	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	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:43.946	—	—	33
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:44.138	+0.192	+0.192	29
3	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:44.294	+0.348	+0.156	31
4	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:44.546	+0.600	+0.252	34
5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:44.757	+0.811	+0.211	22
6	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:44.780	+0.834	+0.023	29
7	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:44.928	+0.982	+0.148	29
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:45.186	+1.240	+0.258	32
9	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:45.364	+1.418	+0.178	35
10	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:45.511	+1.565	+0.147	34
11	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:45.611	+1.665	+0.100	34
12	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:45.943	+1.997	+0.332	32
13	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:46.005	+2.059	+0.062	31
14	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:46.163	+2.217	+0.158	30
15	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:46.257	+2.311	+0.094	24
16	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	1:46.484	+2.538	+0.227	33
17	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:46.743	+2.797	+0.259	21
18	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:46.903	+2.957	+0.160	27
19	Jos Verstappen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:47.086	+3.140	+0.183	23
20	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:48.175	+4.229	+1.089	18
21	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:48.832	+4.886	+0.657	25
22	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	20	1:49.986	+6.040	+1.154	21

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	1:43.006	—	—	20
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:43.175	+0.169	+0.169	21
3	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:43.444	+0.438	+0.269	22
4	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:43.746	+0.740	+0.302	26
5	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:44.084	+1.078	+0.338	26
6	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:44.114	+1.108	+0.030	29
7	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:44.129	+1.123	+0.015	29
8	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:44.399	+1.393	+0.270	23
9	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:44.655	+1.649	+0.256	25
10	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:45.038	+2.032	+0.383	6
11	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:45.153	+2.147	+0.115	18
12	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:45.343	+2.337	+0.190	31
13	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:45.533	+2.527	+0.190	29
14	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:45.535	+2.529	+0.002	24
15	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:45.537	+2.531	+0.002	21
16	Jos Verstappen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:46.543	+3.537	+1.006	18
17	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:46.677	+3.671	+0.134	13
18	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:47.366	+4.360	+0.689	22
19	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:48.128	+5.122	+0.762	7
20	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:48.299	+5.293	+0.171	16
21	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	20	1:48.652	+5.646	+0.353	23
22	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	—	—	—	3

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	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:44.812	—	—	10
2	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:45.271	+0.459	+0.459	15
3	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:45.691	+0.879	+0.420	11
4	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:45.741	+0.929	+0.050	11
5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:46.002	+1.190	+0.261	12
6	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:46.035	+1.223	+0.033	14
7	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:46.460	+1.648	+0.425	11
8	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:46.513	+1.701	+0.053	13
9	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:46.936	+2.124	+0.423	13
10	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:46.988	+2.176	+0.052	12
11	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:47.003	+2.191	+0.015	12
12	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:47.188	+2.376	+0.185	13
13	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:47.279	+2.467	+0.091	10
14	Jos Verstappen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:47.461	+2.649	+0.182	11
15	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	1:47.588	+2.776	+0.127	11
16	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:47.878	+3.066	+0.290	9
17	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:48.133	+3.321	+0.255	14
18	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:48.496	+3.684	+0.363	11
19	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:48.572	+3.760	+0.076	10
20	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:48.961	+4.149	+0.389	11
21	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:49.001	+4.189	+0.040	10

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

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

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

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Where this comes from

Round: 11 of 1998
Grand Prix: German Grand Prix
Dates: 2 Aug 1998
Layout raced: Forest circuit, third chicane · 6.823 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.