Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - 1998 zai zama lokacin wahala ga Panis. Ya kasa zira kwallaye guda ɗaya don ƙungiyar Prost, da farko saboda rashin ingancin mota. Duk da haka, an iyakance cikakkiyar damarsa ta hanyar fil da ya kasance a ƙafafunsa, gadon aikin tiyata bayan hadarinsa a 1997. Babban abin da ya faru a wannan kakar shi ne na tara a Ostiraliya, ko da yake ya yi tsere sosai a 1998 Canadian Grand Prix
har sai da motar ta lalace. Alamar matsalolin ƙungiyar a cikin 1998 ita ce maki ɗaya da abokin aikin Panis Jarno Trulli ya zira a Spa-Francorchamps.