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Race · Round 15 of 16 ·

1998 Luxembourg Grand Prix

Mika Hakkinen won for McLaren from 3rd on the grid at Nurburgring (GP-Strecke). 6 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 16 °C, 0.4 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit
Nurburgring (GP-Strecke)Nurburg, Germany
Winner
Mika HakkinenMcLaren
Fastest lap
Mika Hakkinen
Entries
2216 classified

Classification

Classification
PosDriverConstructorChassisGridLapsOutPointsFL
1Mika HakkinenMcLarenMP4/13367Finished10fastest lap
2Michael SchumacherFerrariF300167Finished6
3David CoulthardMcLarenMP4/13567Finished4
4Eddie IrvineFerrariF300267Finished3
5Heinz-Harald FrentzenWilliamsFW20767Finished2
6Giancarlo FisichellaBenettonB198467Finished1
7Alexander WurzBenettonB198867Finished0
8Jacques VilleneuveWilliamsFW20966Finished0
9Damon HillJordan1981066Finished0
10Jean AlesiSauberC171166Finished0
11Rubens BarrichelloStewart Grand PrixSF021265Finished0
12Olivier PanisProst Grand PrixAP011565Finished0
13Jos VerstappenStewart Grand PrixSF021865Finished0
14Mika SaloArrowsA191665Finished0
15Shinji NakanoMinardiM1982065Finished0
16Toranosuke TakagiTyrrell221965Finished0
NCEsteban TueroMinardiM1982156NC0
DNFRalf SchumacherJordan198653Brakes0
DNFJohnny HerbertSauberC171337Engine0
DNFRicardo RossetTyrrell222236Engine0
DNFJarno TrulliProst Grand PrixAP01146Transmission0
DNFPedro DinizArrowsA19176Hydraulics0
F1DB layout nurburgring-3 · 4.556 km · 12 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

0102030405060Laps completedGridResult31Mika Hakkinen12Michael Schumacher53David Coulthard24Eddie Irvine75Heinz-Harald Frentzen46Giancarlo Fisichella87Alexander Wurz98Jacques Villeneuve109Damon Hill1110Jean Alesi1211Rubens Barrichello1512Olivier Panis1813Jos Verstappen1614Mika Salo2015Shinji Nakano1916Toranosuke Takagi21NCEsteban Tuero6DNFRalf Schumacher13DNFJohnny Herbert22DNFRicardo Rosset14DNFJarno Trulli17DNFPedro Diniz

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
DriverGridResultLaps
Mika Hakkinen3167
Michael Schumacher1267
David Coulthard5367
Eddie Irvine2467
Heinz-Harald Frentzen7567
Giancarlo Fisichella4667
Alexander Wurz8767
Jacques Villeneuve9866
Damon Hill10966
Jean Alesi111066
Rubens Barrichello121165
Olivier Panis151265
Jos Verstappen181365
Mika Salo161465
Shinji Nakano201565
Toranosuke Takagi191665
Esteban Tuero21NC56
Ralf Schumacher6DNF53
Johnny Herbert13DNF37
Ricardo Rosset22DNF36
Jarno Trulli14DNF6
Pedro Diniz17DNF6

Qualifying

Qualifying
PosDriverConstructorNo.TimeGap≈ DistanceInterval
1Michael SchumacherFerrari31:18.561—0 m—
2Eddie IrvineFerrari41:18.907+0.34620 m+0.346
3Mika HakkinenMcLaren81:18.940+0.37922 m+0.033
4Giancarlo FisichellaBenetton51:19.048+0.48728 m+0.108
5David CoulthardMcLaren71:19.169+0.60835 m+0.121
6Ralf SchumacherJordan101:19.455+0.89452 m+0.286
7Heinz-Harald FrentzenWilliams21:19.522+0.96156 m+0.067
8Alexander WurzBenetton61:19.569+1.00858 m+0.047
9Jacques VilleneuveWilliams11:19.631+1.07062 m+0.062
10Damon HillJordan91:19.807+1.24672 m+0.176
11Jean AlesiSauber141:20.493+1.932112 m+0.686
12Rubens BarrichelloStewart Grand Prix181:20.530+1.969114 m+0.037
13Johnny HerbertSauber151:20.650+2.089121 m+0.120
14Jarno TrulliProst Grand Prix121:20.709+2.148125 m+0.059
15Olivier PanisProst Grand Prix111:21.048+2.487144 m+0.339
16Mika SaloArrows171:21.120+2.559148 m+0.072
17Pedro DinizArrows161:21.258+2.697156 m+0.138
18Jos VerstappenStewart Grand Prix191:21.501+2.940170 m+0.243
19Toranosuke TakagiTyrrell211:21.525+2.964172 m+0.024
20Shinji NakanoMinardi221:22.078+3.517204 m+0.553
21Esteban TueroMinardi231:22.146+3.585208 m+0.068
22Ricardo RossetTyrrell201:22.822+4.261247 m+0.676
Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.
How it is derived: distance, Qualifying

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

0102030405060LapStops on each lap (up to 4)1Mika HakkinenLap 28: pit lane 27.2 sLap 48: pit lane 24.9 s2Michael SchumacherLap 24: pit lane 26.9 sLap 47: pit lane 25.9 s3David CoulthardLap 29: pit lane 27.4 sLap 52: pit lane 25.7 s4Eddie IrvineLap 25: pit lane 28.4 sLap 49: pit lane 25.5 s5Heinz-Harald FrentzenLap 26: pit lane 27.5 sLap 43: pit lane 27.3 s6Giancarlo FisichellaLap 23: pit lane 29.6 sLap 42: pit lane 28.2 s7Alexander WurzLap 24: pit lane 30.8 sLap 43: pit lane 28.7 s8Jacques VilleneuveLap 31: pit lane 30.7 sLap 45: pit lane 27.6 s9Damon HillLap 26: pit lane 27.5 sLap 51: pit lane 26.5 s10Jean AlesiLap 27: pit lane 26.9 sLap 48: pit lane 26.5 s11Rubens BarrichelloLap 34: pit lane 30.5 s12Olivier PanisLap 25: pit lane 28.7 sLap 43: pit lane 28.2 s13Jos VerstappenLap 22: pit lane 30.4 sLap 43: pit lane 29.4 s14Mika SaloLap 25: pit lane 30.4 sLap 42: pit lane 28.3 s15Shinji NakanoLap 39: pit lane 30.0 s16Toranosuke TakagiLap 22: pit lane 29.3 sLap 45: pit lane 27.5 sNCEsteban TueroLap 1: pit lane 713.1 sLap 35: pit lane 29.6 sDNFRalf SchumacherLap 22: pit lane 28.6 sLap 48: pit lane 26.7 sDNFJohnny HerbertLap 26: pit lane 26.1 sDNFRicardo RossetLap 20: pit lane 28.8 sDNFJarno TrulliDNFPedro Diniz

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
DriverResultLapsStops recordedStopped on lapPit-lane time (s)
Mika Hakkinen167228, 4827.2, 24.9
Michael Schumacher267224, 4726.9, 25.9
David Coulthard367229, 5227.4, 25.7
Eddie Irvine467225, 4928.4, 25.5
Heinz-Harald Frentzen567226, 4327.5, 27.3
Giancarlo Fisichella667223, 4229.6, 28.2
Alexander Wurz767224, 4330.8, 28.7
Jacques Villeneuve866231, 4530.7, 27.6
Damon Hill966226, 5127.5, 26.5
Jean Alesi1066227, 4826.9, 26.5
Rubens Barrichello116513430.5
Olivier Panis1265225, 4328.7, 28.2
Jos Verstappen1365222, 4330.4, 29.4
Mika Salo1465225, 4230.4, 28.3
Shinji Nakano156513930.0
Toranosuke Takagi1665222, 4529.3, 27.5
Esteban TueroNC5621, 35713.1, 29.6
Ralf SchumacherDNF53222, 4828.6, 26.7
Johnny HerbertDNF3712626.1
Ricardo RossetDNF3612028.8
Jarno TrulliDNF60None recorded—
Pedro DinizDNF60None recorded—
A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid orderGridResultFirst recorded stop, lapStopped firstGrid to flag
Michael Schumacher · Mika Hakkinen1 · 32 · 124 · 28Michael SchumacherSwapped places
Eddie Irvine · Mika Hakkinen2 · 34 · 125 · 28Eddie IrvineSwapped places
Mika Hakkinen · Giancarlo Fisichella3 · 41 · 628 · 23Giancarlo FisichellaKept their order
Michael Schumacher · David Coulthard1 · 52 · 324 · 29Michael SchumacherKept their order
Michael Schumacher · Eddie Irvine1 · 22 · 424 · 25Michael SchumacherKept their order
Eddie Irvine · David Coulthard2 · 54 · 325 · 29Eddie IrvineSwapped places
Giancarlo Fisichella · David Coulthard4 · 56 · 323 · 29Giancarlo FisichellaSwapped places
Eddie Irvine · Heinz-Harald Frentzen2 · 74 · 525 · 26Eddie IrvineKept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Heinz-Harald Frentzen4 · 76 · 523 · 26Giancarlo FisichellaSwapped places
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Alexander Wurz7 · 85 · 726 · 24Alexander WurzKept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Alexander Wurz4 · 86 · 723 · 24Giancarlo FisichellaKept their order
Alexander Wurz · Jacques Villeneuve8 · 97 · 824 · 31Alexander WurzKept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Damon Hill9 · 108 · 931 · 26Damon HillKept their order
Damon Hill · Jean Alesi10 · 119 · 1026 · 27Damon HillKept their order
Jean Alesi · Rubens Barrichello11 · 1210 · 1127 · 34Jean AlesiKept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Olivier Panis12 · 1511 · 1234 · 25Olivier PanisKept their order
Olivier Panis · Jos Verstappen15 · 1812 · 1325 · 22Jos VerstappenKept their order
Olivier Panis · Mika Salo15 · 1612 · 1425 · 25Same lapKept their order
Mika Salo · Jos Verstappen16 · 1814 · 1325 · 22Jos VerstappenSwapped places
Jos Verstappen · Toranosuke Takagi18 · 1913 · 1622 · 22Same lapKept their order
Mika Salo · Shinji Nakano16 · 2014 · 1525 · 39Mika SaloKept their order
Toranosuke Takagi · Shinji Nakano19 · 2016 · 1522 · 39Toranosuke TakagiSwapped places
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 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
PosDriverConstructorNo.Best lapGap≈ DistanceIntervalLaps
1Mika HakkinenMcLaren81:19.689—0 m—26
2Giancarlo FisichellaBenetton51:20.325+0.63636 m+0.63634
3Jacques VilleneuveWilliams11:20.326+0.63736 m+0.00135
4Michael SchumacherFerrari31:20.461+0.77244 m+0.13532
5David CoulthardMcLaren71:20.577+0.88851 m+0.11628
6Eddie IrvineFerrari41:20.841+1.15266 m+0.26433
7Alexander WurzBenetton61:21.014+1.32576 m+0.17337
8Heinz-Harald FrentzenWilliams21:21.174+1.48585 m+0.16035
9Ralf SchumacherJordan101:21.351+1.66295 m+0.17722
10Olivier PanisProst Grand Prix111:21.391+1.70297 m+0.04044
11Rubens BarrichelloStewart Grand Prix181:21.538+1.849106 m+0.14728
12Damon HillJordan91:21.738+2.049117 m+0.20041
13Jarno TrulliProst Grand Prix121:21.764+2.075119 m+0.02647
14Jean AlesiSauber141:21.952+2.263129 m+0.18838
15Pedro DinizArrows161:22.485+2.796160 m+0.53341
16Jos VerstappenStewart Grand Prix191:22.566+2.877164 m+0.08125
17Johnny HerbertSauber151:22.603+2.914167 m+0.03731
18Toranosuke TakagiTyrrell211:22.792+3.103177 m+0.18935
19Shinji NakanoMinardi221:22.967+3.278187 m+0.17539
20Esteban TueroMinardi231:23.331+3.642208 m+0.36443
21Ricardo RossetTyrrell201:23.644+3.955226 m+0.31327
22Mika SaloArrows171:24.004+4.315247 m+0.36025
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Practice 1

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
PosDriverConstructorNo.Best lapGap≈ DistanceIntervalLaps
1Mika HakkinenMcLaren81:19.850—0 m—23
2Michael SchumacherFerrari31:19.925+0.0754 m+0.07511
3Ralf SchumacherJordan101:20.327+0.47727 m+0.40233
4David CoulthardMcLaren71:20.388+0.53831 m+0.06130
5Jacques VilleneuveWilliams11:20.457+0.60735 m+0.06927
6Heinz-Harald FrentzenWilliams21:20.646+0.79645 m+0.18933
7Alexander WurzBenetton61:20.819+0.96955 m+0.17325
8Giancarlo FisichellaBenetton51:20.834+0.98456 m+0.01528
9Jarno TrulliProst Grand Prix121:20.953+1.10363 m+0.11933
10Eddie IrvineFerrari41:20.982+1.13265 m+0.02937
11Damon HillJordan91:21.050+1.20068 m+0.06837
12Jean AlesiSauber141:21.427+1.57790 m+0.37732
13Johnny HerbertSauber151:21.649+1.799103 m+0.22227
14Mika SaloArrows171:21.704+1.854106 m+0.05528
15Pedro DinizArrows161:21.781+1.931110 m+0.07729
16Rubens BarrichelloStewart Grand Prix181:22.276+2.426138 m+0.49524
17Jos VerstappenStewart Grand Prix191:22.399+2.549145 m+0.12321
18Esteban TueroMinardi231:22.893+3.043174 m+0.49436
19Toranosuke TakagiTyrrell211:22.968+3.118178 m+0.07532
20Shinji NakanoMinardi221:23.019+3.169181 m+0.05132
21Olivier PanisProst Grand Prix111:23.928+4.078233 m+0.90927
22Ricardo RossetTyrrell201:25.570+5.720326 m+1.64219
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Practice 2

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Warm-up

Warm-up
PosDriverConstructorNo.Best lapGap≈ DistanceIntervalLaps
1Mika HakkinenMcLaren81:20.396—0 m—15
2David CoulthardMcLaren71:20.915+0.51929 m+0.51915
3Giancarlo FisichellaBenetton51:21.362+0.96655 m+0.44714
4Michael SchumacherFerrari31:21.515+1.11963 m+0.15315
5Eddie IrvineFerrari41:21.636+1.24070 m+0.12114
6Alexander WurzBenetton61:21.870+1.47484 m+0.23419
7Ralf SchumacherJordan101:22.206+1.810103 m+0.33613
8Jacques VilleneuveWilliams11:22.257+1.861105 m+0.05112
9Jean AlesiSauber141:22.278+1.882107 m+0.02113
10Heinz-Harald FrentzenWilliams21:22.352+1.956111 m+0.07416
11Damon HillJordan91:22.582+2.186124 m+0.23016
12Jos VerstappenStewart Grand Prix191:22.698+2.302130 m+0.11613
13Johnny HerbertSauber151:22.716+2.320131 m+0.01815
14Rubens BarrichelloStewart Grand Prix181:23.104+2.708153 m+0.38815
15Jarno TrulliProst Grand Prix121:23.112+2.716154 m+0.00817
16Olivier PanisProst Grand Prix111:23.248+2.852162 m+0.13612
17Pedro DinizArrows161:23.398+3.002170 m+0.15014
18Shinji NakanoMinardi221:23.555+3.159179 m+0.15715
19Mika SaloArrows171:23.997+3.601204 m+0.44212
20Esteban TueroMinardi231:24.178+3.782214 m+0.18115
21Toranosuke TakagiTyrrell211:24.333+3.937223 m+0.15516
22Ricardo RossetTyrrell201:25.225+4.829274 m+0.89213
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Warm-up

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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.

McLaren MP4/13
McLaren MP4/13
Mercedes-Benz, Techno-Classica 2018, Essen (IMG 9896) · Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Ferrari F300
Ferrari F300
Ferrari F300 front-right1 2019 Michael Schumacher Private Collection · Morio · CC BY-SA 4.0
Williams FW20
Williams FW20
Williams FW20 front-right 2017 Williams Conference Centre 2 · Morio · CC BY-SA 4.0
Benetton B198
Benetton B198
Benetton B198 schraeg vorne · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jordan 198
Jordan 198
Jordan 198 front-left Donington Grand Prix Collection · Morio · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sauber C17
Sauber C17
Sauber C17 · Raoul van Wijk · CC BY-SA 2.0

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

5 more photographs
Stewart SF02
Stewart SF02
Stewart SF02 4 · Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK · CC BY 2.0
Prost AP01
Prost AP01
Prost AP01 2 · xavier romero · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arrows A19
Arrows A19
Mika Salo Arrows A19 Sinsheim Baden-Württemberg · danishevskiy · CC BY-SA 2.0
Minardi M198
Minardi M198
Minardi M198 2025-09-06 Italian Grand Prix mod · Quelle: Eustace Bagge / Bildbearbeitung & Retusche von Auge=mit · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tyrrell 026
Tyrrell 026
Takagi 1998 Spanish GP · Formulanone · CC BY-SA 3.0 · unchecked

Where this comes from

Round
15 of 1998
Grand Prix
Luxembourg Grand Prix
Dates
Layout raced
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Format
Standard weekend
Constructor
McLaren
Entrant
McLaren-Mercedes
Confidence
reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.