1998 Rally GB
| 1998 Rally GB 54. Network Q Rally of Great Britain 1998 | |||
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Round 13 of 13 of the 1998 World Rally Championship
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| Host country |
 United Kingdom | ||
| Rally base |
 Cheltenham | ||
| Dates run | 22 – 24 November 1998 | ||
| Stages | 28 | ||
| Results | |||
| Overall winner |
Richard Burns Team Mitsubishi Ralliart | ||
| Crews | 168[1] at start, 82 at finish | ||
The 54th Network Q Rally of Great Britain 1998 was held between 22-24 November 1998 as the final round of the 1998 World Rally Championship season.
It was the second victory of the 1998 season for Richard Burns and his co-driver Robert Reid and saw Tommi Mäkinen score a hat-trick of Drivers' championships after his closest rival Carlos Sainz, just 300 metres from the finish, suffered a heartbreaking exit with engine failure after Mäkinen had earlier retired from the rally with a missing rear wheel.
It was first time since 1976 that an English driver had won the Rally GB.
Results
| Pos | No. | Driver | Co-driver | Car | Time/retired | Pts |
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| 1 | 2 | Richard Burns |
Robert Reid |
Mitsubishi Carisma GT Evo IV | 3:50:30.6 | 10 |
| 2 | 7 |  Juha Kankkunen |
Juha Repo |
Ford Escort WRC | +3:46.5 | 6 |
| 3 | 8 | .svg.png){kind=small} Bruno Thiry |
Stéphane Prévot |
Ford Escort WRC | +5:27.5 | 4 |
| 4 | 16 | Grégoire De Mévius |
Jean-Marc Fortin |
Subaru Impreza S3 WRC '97 | +7:54.8 | 3 |
| 5 | 24 | Sebastian Lindholm |
Jukka Aho |
Ford Escort WRC | +8:15.6 | 2 |
| 6 | 9 | Harri Rovanperä |
Risto Pietiläinen |
Seat Cordoba WRC | +10:33.3 | 1 |
| 7 | 14 |  Armin Schwarz |
Manfred Hiemer |
Ford Escort WRC | +12:16.7 | 0 |
| 8 | 17 |  Krzysztof Hołowczyc |
Maciej Wislawski |
Subaru Impreza S3 WRC '97 | +13:06.7 | 0 |
| 9 | 33 |  Markko Märtin |
Toomas Kitsing |
Toyota Celica GT-Four | +17:11.0 | 0 |
| 10 | 53 |  Manfred Stohl |
Peter Müller |
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V | +19:07.2 | 0 |