F1/Seasons/1998/Round 4
1998 · Round 4 of 16

San Marino Grand Prix

April 26, 1998 · Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari · Imola · Italy
Coulthard
WINNER
David Coulthard · McLaren · from grid 1
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+11
MOST PLACES GAINED
Esteban Tuero · grid 19 to P8
11 of 22
CLASSIFIED
11 retired

01/Classification

22 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1David CoulthardMcLaren10621:34:25.40010
2Michael SchumacherFerrari3+162+4.5546
3Eddie IrvineFerrari4+162+51.7754
4Jacques VilleneuveWilliams6+262+54.5903
5Heinz-Harald FrentzenWilliams8+362+1:17.4762
6Jean AlesiSauber12+661+1 Lap1
7Ralf SchumacherJordan9+260+2 Laps0
8Esteban TueroMinardi19+1160+2 Laps0
9Mika SaloArrows14+560+2 Laps0
10Damon HillJordan7-357Hydraulics0
11Olivier PanisProst13+256+6 Laps0
RRicardo RossetTyrrell2248Engine0
RToranosuke TakagiTyrrell1540Engine0
RJarno TrulliProst1634Throttle0
RShinji NakanoMinardi2127Engine0
RPedro DinizArrows1818Engine0
RMika HäkkinenMcLaren217Gearbox0
RGiancarlo FisichellaBenetton1017Spun off0
RAlexander WurzBenetton517Engine0
RJohnny HerbertSauber1112Puncture0
RJan MagnussenStewart208Transmission0
RRubens BarrichelloStewart170Spun off0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 11 of 22 cars here were not classified (11 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

11 of 22 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Esteban TueroMinardi198+11
Jean AlesiSauber126+6
Mika SaloArrows149+5
Heinz-Harald FrentzenWilliams85+3
Jacques VilleneuveWilliams64+2
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Damon HillJordan710-3

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 11 of the 22 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 11: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1998 season

16 rounds
MAR 8 to NOV 1
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1MAR 8Australian Grand PrixAlbert Park Grand Prix CircuitMika HäkkinenMcLaren22
2MAR 29Brazilian Grand PrixAutódromo José Carlos PaceMika HäkkinenMcLaren22
3APR 12Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezMichael SchumacherFerrari22
4APR 26San Marino Grand PrixAutodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariDavid CoulthardMcLaren22
5MAY 10Spanish Grand PrixCircuit de Barcelona-CatalunyaMika HäkkinenMcLaren21
6MAY 24Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoMika HäkkinenMcLaren21
7JUN 7Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveMichael SchumacherFerrari22
8JUN 28French Grand PrixCircuit de Nevers Magny-CoursMichael SchumacherFerrari22
9JUL 12British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitMichael SchumacherFerrari22
10JUL 26Austrian Grand PrixRed Bull RingMika HäkkinenMcLaren22
11AUG 2German Grand PrixHockenheimringMika HäkkinenMcLaren21
12AUG 16Hungarian Grand PrixHungaroringMichael SchumacherFerrari21
13AUG 30Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsDamon HillJordan22
14SEP 13Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaMichael SchumacherFerrari22
15SEP 27Luxembourg Grand PrixNürburgringMika HäkkinenMcLaren22
16NOV 1Japanese Grand PrixSuzuka CircuitMika HäkkinenMcLaren21

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1998 season is complete at 16 rounds.