2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
The 2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the eighth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the eighteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champion of 2000 was the #16 Castrol Mugen Honda NSX team driven by Ryo Michigami and the GT300 class champion was the #26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996 driven by Hideo Fukuyama.
| 2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship | |||
| Previous: | 1999 | Next: | 2001 |
This season marked the first of several instances where the series champion had not won a single race throughout the season, with Michigami scoring four second places as the season champion's best finish. This phenomenon would occur again in 2001 (in GT500 only) and 2003 (in both GT500 and GT300), resulting in changes to success ballast rules in 2009 to discourage sandbagging.
Drivers and teams
GT500
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Schedule
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Motegi GT Championship Race |  Twin Ring Motegi |
April 2 |
| 2 | All Japan Fuji GT Race | Fuji Speedway |
May 4 |
| 3 | SUGO GT Championship | Sportsland SUGO |
May 28 |
| NC | Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia |  Sepang Circuit |
June 25 |
| 4 | Japan Special GT Cup | Fuji Speedway |
August 6 |
| 5 | GT Championship in TI | TI Circuit |
September 10 |
| 6 | CP Mine GT Race | Mine Circuit |
October 1 |
| 7 | Suzuka GT 300 km | Suzuka Circuit |
October 22 |
Season results
Standings
GT500 Drivers
- Scoring system
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Drivers
| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hideo Fukuyama |
#26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996 | 85 | 3 |
| 2 | Hideshi Matsuda |
#26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996 | 83 | 3 |
| 3 | Hisashi Wada Atsushi Yogo |
#910 Racing Porsche 996 | 80 | 1 |
| 4 | Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi |
#81 Team Daishin Nissan Silvia | 64 | 0 |
| 5 | Tetsuya Yamano Haruhiko Matsumoto |
#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 | 57 | 0 |
External links
- Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)
- 2000 season results