Qualifying

Mika Häkkinen...
...is on pole for the Belgian GP. Jean Alesi did not manage to keep up with the pace and is down on 8th row. Both Villeneuve and Zonta crashed at Euu Rouge and the session was stopped twice.

Preview
The Spa-Fracorchaps circuit is one of the tracks almost every driver likes, it is one of the absolute highlights of the championship. Last year was almost to thrilling, with tha start crash with a huge number of cars involved, and the Shumacher vs Coulthard incident. and Jean who made it to the podium with a third place i the wet.

Belgium 1998
Jean's words after the 1998 Belgian GP:
"This is a fantastic result for the team! All season our performance has been getting better, but whenever we have been on the verge of a strong result something has always gone wrong up until now. The level of competition has been tougher than ever, and the disappointments have been difficult to take. This result makes up for all that.
"I was lucky to avoid the problems at the first start, and when the race really got going I had to concentrate very hard because the conditions were so difficult. It was raining in a different way on different part of the circuit, and especially on the intermediates on which I started I had to be very careful. When we switched to full wets it was easier, but throughout the visibility was terrible.
"To be honest I was surprised when the safety car pulled off again towards the end, because there were cars parked either side of the track and it was very easy to aquaplane in many places. Towards the end I could run at the same speed as the two Jordans just ahead of me, but it was absolutely impossible to try anything because the visibility was so bad. I was thinking of points, nothing else."