Race · Round 9 of 16 · 12 July 1998

1998 British Grand Prix

Michael Schumacher won for Ferrari from 2nd on the grid at Silverstone Circuit. 13 of the starters were not classified.

Wet · High of 18 °C, 1.2 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: Silverstone CircuitSilverstone, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Winner: Michael SchumacherFerrari
Pole: Mika Hakkinen
Fastest lap: Michael Schumacher
Entries: 229 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F300	2	60	Finished	10	fastest lap
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4/13	1	60	Finished	6
3	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	F300	5	60	Finished	4
4	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	B198	11	59	Finished	3
5	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	B198	10	59	Finished	2
6	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	198	21	59	Finished	1
7	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	FW20	3	59	Finished	0
8	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	M198	19	58	Finished	0
9	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	22	17	56	Finished	0
DNF	Jean Alesi	Sauber	C17	8	53	Electrical	0
DNF	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	A19	12	45	Spun off	0
DNF	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	AP01	22	40	Spun off	0
DNF	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	SF02	16	39	Accident	0
DNF	Jos Verstappen	Stewart Grand Prix	SF02	15	38	Engine	0
DNF	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4/13	4	37	Spun off	0
DNF	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	AP01	14	37	Spun off	0
DNF	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	22	20	29	Spun off	0
DNF	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	M198	18	29	Spun off	0
DNF	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	C17	9	27	Spun off	0
DNF	Mika Salo	Arrows	A19	13	27	Throttle	0
DNF	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	FW20	6	15	Spun off	0
DNF	Damon Hill	Jordan	198	7	13	Spun off	0

F1DB layout silverstone-7 · 5.141 km · 17 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
Michael Schumacher	2	1	60
Mika Hakkinen	1	2	60
Eddie Irvine	5	3	60
Alexander Wurz	11	4	59
Giancarlo Fisichella	10	5	59
Ralf Schumacher	21	6	59
Jacques Villeneuve	3	7	59
Shinji Nakano	19	8	58
Toranosuke Takagi	17	9	56
Jean Alesi	8	DNF	53
Pedro Diniz	12	DNF	45
Olivier Panis	22	DNF	40
Rubens Barrichello	16	DNF	39
Jos Verstappen	15	DNF	38
David Coulthard	4	DNF	37
Jarno Trulli	14	DNF	37
Ricardo Rosset	20	DNF	29
Esteban Tuero	18	DNF	29
Johnny Herbert	9	DNF	27
Mika Salo	13	DNF	27
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	6	DNF	15
Damon Hill	7	DNF	13

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:23.271	—	0 m	—
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:23.720	+0.449	28 m	+0.449
3	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:24.102	+0.831	51 m	+0.382
4	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:24.310	+1.039	64 m	+0.208
5	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:24.436	+1.165	72 m	+0.126
6	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:24.442	+1.171	72 m	+0.006
7	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:24.542	+1.271	78 m	+0.100
8	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:25.081	+1.810	112 m	+0.539
9	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:25.084	+1.813	112 m	+0.003
10	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:25.654	+2.383	147 m	+0.570
11	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:25.760	+2.489	154 m	+0.106
12	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:26.376	+3.105	192 m	+0.616
13	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:26.487	+3.216	199 m	+0.111
14	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:26.808	+3.537	218 m	+0.321
15	Jos Verstappen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:26.948	+3.677	227 m	+0.140
16	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:26.990	+3.719	230 m	+0.042
17	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:27.061	+3.790	234 m	+0.071
18	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:28.051	+4.780	295 m	+0.990
19	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:28.123	+4.852	300 m	+0.072
20	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	20	1:28.608	+5.337	329 m	+0.485
21	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	—	—	—	—
22	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	—	—	—	—

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

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

Pit stops

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
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Michael Schumacher	1	60	2	19, 40	28.9, 30.5
Mika Hakkinen	2	60	2	23, 40	28.0, 27.9
Eddie Irvine	3	60	2	22, 39	26.5, 30.4
Alexander Wurz	4	59	2	19, 40	33.0, 36.8
Giancarlo Fisichella	5	59	2	18, 43	30.6, 30.8
Ralf Schumacher	6	59	3	13, 35, 40	30.0, 33.0, 32.9
Jacques Villeneuve	7	59	3	19, 39, 41	31.5, 32.6, 33.1
Shinji Nakano	8	58	1	29	33.0
Toranosuke Takagi	9	56	2	20, 43	34.0, 31.9
Jean Alesi	DNF	53	2	22, 40	29.1, 33.8
Pedro Diniz	DNF	45	2	18, 39	31.5, 259.2
Olivier Panis	DNF	40	1	26	32.6
Rubens Barrichello	DNF	39	1	17	32.8
Jos Verstappen	DNF	38	1	16	32.4
David Coulthard	DNF	37	1	21	28.4
Jarno Trulli	DNF	37	1	23	55.1
Ricardo Rosset	DNF	29	1	18	32.2
Esteban Tuero	DNF	29	0	None recorded	—
Johnny Herbert	DNF	27	0	None recorded	—
Mika Salo	DNF	27	1	20	29.1
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	DNF	15	0	None recorded	—
Damon Hill	DNF	13	0	None 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 order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Mika Hakkinen · Michael Schumacher	1 · 2	2 · 1	23 · 19	Michael Schumacher	Swapped places
Michael Schumacher · Jacques Villeneuve	2 · 3	1 · 7	19 · 19	Same lap	Kept their order
Mika Hakkinen · Eddie Irvine	1 · 5	2 · 3	23 · 22	Eddie Irvine	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Alexander Wurz	5 · 11	3 · 4	22 · 19	Alexander Wurz	Kept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Alexander Wurz	10 · 11	5 · 4	18 · 19	Giancarlo Fisichella	Swapped places
Giancarlo Fisichella · Ralf Schumacher	10 · 21	5 · 6	18 · 13	Ralf Schumacher	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Ralf Schumacher	3 · 21	7 · 6	19 · 13	Ralf Schumacher	Swapped places
Jacques Villeneuve · Shinji Nakano	3 · 19	7 · 8	19 · 29	Jacques Villeneuve	Kept their order
Toranosuke Takagi · Shinji Nakano	17 · 19	9 · 8	20 · 29	Toranosuke Takagi	Swapped 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
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:25.640	—	0 m	—	36
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:25.764	+0.124	7 m	+0.124	25
3	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:26.107	+0.467	28 m	+0.343	31
4	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:26.114	+0.474	28 m	+0.007	38
5	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:26.791	+1.151	69 m	+0.677	18
6	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:26.840	+1.200	72 m	+0.049	32
7	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:26.884	+1.244	75 m	+0.044	27
8	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:27.121	+1.481	89 m	+0.237	32
9	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:27.460	+1.820	109 m	+0.339	30
10	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:27.667	+2.027	122 m	+0.207	41
11	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:27.978	+2.338	140 m	+0.311	25
12	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:28.136	+2.496	150 m	+0.158	27
13	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:28.258	+2.618	157 m	+0.122	35
14	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:28.339	+2.699	162 m	+0.081	23
15	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:28.685	+3.045	183 m	+0.346	40
16	Jos Verstappen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:28.983	+3.343	201 m	+0.298	32
17	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	1:29.193	+3.553	213 m	+0.210	22
18	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:29.262	+3.622	217 m	+0.069	32
19	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:29.375	+3.735	224 m	+0.113	6
20	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	20	1:29.664	+4.024	242 m	+0.289	35
21	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:30.090	+4.450	267 m	+0.426	36
22	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:30.266	+4.626	278 m	+0.176	30

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

How it is derived: distance

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

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:23.639	—	0 m	—	30
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:24.233	+0.594	37 m	+0.594	24
3	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:24.260	+0.621	38 m	+0.027	30
4	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:24.496	+0.857	53 m	+0.236	28
5	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:24.683	+1.044	64 m	+0.187	29
6	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:24.791	+1.152	71 m	+0.108	31
7	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:24.834	+1.195	73 m	+0.043	27
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:25.187	+1.548	95 m	+0.353	27
9	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:25.769	+2.130	131 m	+0.582	27
10	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:25.822	+2.183	134 m	+0.053	17
11	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:25.904	+2.265	139 m	+0.082	30
12	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:25.949	+2.310	142 m	+0.045	31
13	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:26.521	+2.882	177 m	+0.572	26
14	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	1:26.881	+3.242	199 m	+0.360	31
15	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:26.929	+3.290	202 m	+0.048	27
16	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:26.947	+3.308	203 m	+0.018	28
17	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:27.002	+3.363	207 m	+0.055	27
18	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:27.323	+3.684	226 m	+0.321	31
19	Jos Verstappen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:27.690	+4.051	249 m	+0.367	31
20	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:28.224	+4.585	282 m	+0.534	29
21	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:28.317	+4.678	288 m	+0.093	26
22	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	20	1:28.650	+5.011	308 m	+0.333	26

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

How it is derived: distance

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

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	David Coulthard	McLaren	7	1:37.910	—	0 m	—	11
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:37.921	+0.011	1 m	+0.011	12
3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Benetton	5	1:39.802	+1.892	99 m	+1.881	14
4	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	4	1:40.127	+2.217	116 m	+0.325	14
5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	3	1:40.296	+2.386	125 m	+0.169	12
6	Alexander Wurz	Benetton	6	1:40.917	+3.007	158 m	+0.621	13
7	Mika Salo	Arrows	17	1:41.582	+3.672	193 m	+0.665	12
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	2	1:41.620	+3.710	195 m	+0.038	12
9	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	11	1:41.762	+3.852	202 m	+0.142	12
10	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	16	1:41.938	+4.028	211 m	+0.176	11
11	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	1	1:42.133	+4.223	222 m	+0.195	13
12	Jean Alesi	Sauber	14	1:42.369	+4.459	234 m	+0.236	13
13	Shinji Nakano	Minardi	22	1:42.510	+4.600	242 m	+0.141	15
14	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	18	1:42.530	+4.620	243 m	+0.020	12
15	Esteban Tuero	Minardi	23	1:42.779	+4.869	256 m	+0.249	14
16	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	15	1:42.908	+4.998	262 m	+0.129	13
17	Jos Verstappen	Stewart Grand Prix	19	1:43.305	+5.395	283 m	+0.397	13
18	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	10	1:43.738	+5.828	306 m	+0.433	11
19	Damon Hill	Jordan	9	1:43.797	+5.887	309 m	+0.059	10
20	Jarno Trulli	Prost Grand Prix	12	1:44.526	+6.616	347 m	+0.729	13
21	Toranosuke Takagi	Tyrrell	21	1:46.189	+8.279	435 m	+1.663	11
22	Ricardo Rosset	Tyrrell	20	1:48.865	+10.955	575 m	+2.676	9

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

How it is derived: distance

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

Photographs from this race

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At the 1998 British Grand Prix — Coulthard-Silverstone98 · Steve Gregory · CC BY-SA 2.5

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The cars in this race

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Sauber C17
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Where this comes from

Round: 9 of 1998
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 12 Jul 1998
Layout raced: Bridge circuit, final form · 5.141 km
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
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.