F1/Seasons/1998/Round 5
1998 · Round 5 of 16

Spanish Grand Prix

May 10, 1998 · Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya · Barcelona · Spain
Häkkinen
WINNER
Mika Häkkinen · McLaren · from grid 1
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+8
MOST PLACES GAINED
Toranosuke Takagi · grid 21 to P13
16 of 21
CLASSIFIED
5 retired

01/Classification

21 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Mika HäkkinenMcLaren10651:33:38.30010
2David CoulthardMcLaren2065+9.4396
3Michael SchumacherFerrari3065+47.0954
4Alexander WurzBenetton5+165+1:02.5383
5Rubens BarrichelloStewart9+464+1 Lap2
6Jacques VilleneuveWilliams10+464+1 Lap1
7Johnny HerbertSauber7064+1 Lap0
8Heinz-Harald FrentzenWilliams13+563+2 Laps0
9Jarno TrulliProst16+763+2 Laps0
10Jean AlesiSauber14+463+2 Laps0
11Ralf SchumacherJordan11063+2 Laps0
12Jan MagnussenStewart18+663+2 Laps0
13Toranosuke TakagiTyrrell21+863+2 Laps0
14Shinji NakanoMinardi20+663+2 Laps0
15Esteban TueroMinardi19+463+2 Laps0
16Olivier PanisProst12-460+5 Laps0
RDamon HillJordan846Engine0
REddie IrvineFerrari628Collision0
RGiancarlo FisichellaBenetton428Collision0
RMika SaloArrows1721Engine0
RPedro DinizArrows1520Engine0

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. 5 of 21 cars here were not classified (5 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

16 of 21 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Toranosuke TakagiTyrrell2113+8
Jarno TrulliProst169+7
Jan MagnussenStewart1812+6
Shinji NakanoMinardi2014+6
Heinz-Harald FrentzenWilliams138+5
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Olivier PanisProst1216-4

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 16 of the 21 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 5: 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.