2000 International Formula 3000 Championship

The 2000 International Formula 3000 season was the thirty-fourth season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also sixteenth season under the International Formula 3000 Championship moniker. It featured the 2000 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship which was contested over ten rounds from 8 April to 26 August 2000. Bruno Junqueira won the Drivers’ Championship[1] and D2 Playlife Super Nova won the Teams’ title.[2]

For 2000, the FIA imposed an upper limit of 15 teams of 2 cars each, with one of the places reserved for the winning team of the 1999 Italian Formula 3000 Championship; therefore, 7 bottom-ranked teams of 1999 would not have been eligible to advance to the next year.[3] Portman-Arrows team collapsed midway through the 1999 championship, and 6 formerly competing teams were initially excluded from the 2000 championship.

In between the seasons, RSM Marko managed to buy the Oreca's slot (at the same time adopting the name Red Bull Junior Team), Arden merged with Draco, and Coloni bought the slot from Team Martello, the winners of the Italian championship; therefore, only Monaco Motorsport, GP Racing and Durango were left behind. Additionally, West Competition was renamed to mySap.com, and the second Super Nova squad (former Den Blå Avis) continued to operate under the name of Petrobras Junior Team.[4]

As the FIA was changing the operational structure of Formula 3000 for the latter to be more of a proper seeder and supporting series for Formula One, a few F3000 teams announced their collaboration with Formula One teams. European Formula was confirmed as a junior team for Arrows instead of the de-funct Portman team, Team Astromega announced partnership with Minardi, and Super Nova announced two partnerships: with Benetton, as D2 Super Nova, and with Williams, as Petrobras Junior Team (former Den Blå Avis). Additionally, mySap.com was officially recognized as the McLaren junior team, Red Bull Junior Team retained the status of a junior team for Sauber, and Apomatox continued to run under Prost as Gauloises Formula. Although Arden's Darren Manning spent the full year as a BAR test driver, the BAR team opted not to work with Arden, and Ferrari, Jordan, and Jaguar also did not maintain active partnerships with any of the Formula 3000 teams.

Drivers and teams

The Lola B99/50 driven to 4th place in the 2000 Drivers' Championship by Fernando Alonso

The following drivers and teams contested the 2000 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship.

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
MySap.com	1	Stéphane Sarrazin	1-6
	1	Tomas Scheckter	7-10
	2	Tomáš Enge	All
D2 Playlife Super Nova	3	Nicolas Minassian	All
D2 Playlife Super Nova	4	David Saelens	All
Petrobras Junior Team	5	Jaime Melo	All
Petrobras Junior Team	6	Bruno Junqueira	All
Team Astromega	7	Fernando Alonso	All
	8	Fabrice Walfisch	1-6
	8	Marc Goossens	7-10
Gauloises Formula	9	André Couto	All
Gauloises Formula	10	Sébastien Bourdais	All
Kid Jensen Racing	11	Andrea Piccini	All
Kid Jensen Racing	12	Bas Leinders	All
Red Bull Junior Team F3000	15	Ricardo Mauricio	All
Red Bull Junior Team F3000	16	Enrique Bernoldi	All
Nordic Racing	17	Kevin McGarrity	All
Nordic Racing	18	Justin Wilson	All
WRT	19	Hidetoshi Mitsusada	1-3
		Marc Hynes	4-6
		Dino Morelli	7-8
		Soheil Ayari	9-10
	20	Ananda Mikola	All
DAMS	21	Franck Montagny	All
DAMS	22	Kristian Kolby	All
Arden Team Russia	23	Darren Manning	All
Arden Team Russia	24	Viktor Maslov	All
European Arrows F3000	25	Mark Webber	All
European Arrows F3000	26	Christijan Albers	All
Witmeur KTR	27	Jeffrey van Hooydonk	All
Witmeur KTR	28	Yves Olivier	All
Fortec Motorsport	29	Mario Haberfeld	1-3, 6-10
	29	Jamie Davies	4-5
	30	Jamie Davies	10
	30	Andreas Scheld	1-9
Coloni F3000	31	Soheil Ayari	1-7
	31	Fabrice Walfisch	9-10
	32	Fabrizio Gollin	All

All cars were Lola B99/50s powered by Zytek V8 engines.[5]

Calendar

Round	Circuit	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winner	Winning Team	Report
1	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	8 April	42	4.9325=207.165 km	1'11:06.160	174.816 km/h	Bruno Junqueira	Stéphane Sarrazin	Nicolas Minassian	D2 Playlife Super Nova	Report
2	Silverstone Circuit	22 April	40	5.14=205.60 km	1'22:24.239	149.702 km/h	Darren Manning	Stéphane Sarrazin	Mark Webber	European Arrows F3000	Report
3	Circuit de Catalunya	5 May	44	4.728=208.032 km	1'11:52.069	173.679 km/h	Enrique Bernoldi	Mark Webber	Bruno Junqueira	Petrobras Junior Team	Report
4	Nürburgring	20 May	45	4.556=205.02 km	1'24:07.032	146.239 km/h	David Saelens	Bruno Junqueira	Bruno Junqueira	Petrobras Junior Team	Report
5	Circuit de Monaco	3 June	50	3.367=168.35 km	1'19:08.755	127.625 km/h	David Saelens	Fernando Alonso	Bruno Junqueira	Petrobras Junior Team	Report
6	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	1 July	49	4.25=208.25 km	1'15:44.627	164.964 km/h	Sébastien Bourdais	Mark Webber	Nicolas Minassian	D2 Playlife Super Nova	Report
7	A1 Ring	15 July	48	4.319=207.312 km	1'10:42.354	175.922 km/h	Jeffrey van Hooydonk	Tomáš Enge	Nicolas Minassian	D2 Playlife Super Nova	Report
8	Hockenheimring	29 July	31	6.823=211.513 km	1'14:50.567	169.566 km/h	Tomáš Enge	Darren Manning	Tomáš Enge	MySap.com	Report
9	Hungaroring	12 August	52	3.972=206.544 km	1'21:30.052	152.055 km/h	Bruno Junqueira	Marc Goossens	Bruno Junqueira	Petrobras Junior Team	Report
10	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	26 August	30	6.968=209.04 km	1'08:04.964	184.223 km/h	Fernando Alonso	Fernando Alonso	Fernando Alonso	Team Astromega	Report

Final points standings

Teams

Position[2]	Team[2]	Imo	Sil	Bar	Nur	Mon	Mag	A1-R	Hoc	Hun	Spa	Total[2]
1	D2 Playlife Super Nova	10	-	10	-	6	14	10	-	3	7	60
2	Petrobras Junior Team	9	2	10	11	10	-	2	-	10	-	54
3	MySAP.com Team	2	-	-	2	-	3	-	16	-	1	24
4	Team Astromega	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	6	16	23
5	European Arrows Team	4	10	-	-	-	-	3	4	-	-	21
6	Nordic Racing.com	-	4	2	-	3	-	6	-	2	2	19
7	Gauloises Formula	-	-	-	7	-	6	-	-	-	-	13
8	Arden Team Russia	-	6	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	10
9	Red Bull Junior Team	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	1	5	-	9
10	Coloni F3000	1	1	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
11	DAMS	-	-	1	-	1	3	-	2	-	-	7
12	Fortec Motorsport	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	6
13	Witmeur Team KTR	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
14	Kid Jensen Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	3
15	World Racing Team	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0

Drivers' championship

Pos	Driver	IMO	SIL	CAT	NUR	MON	MAG	A1R	HOC	HUN	SPA	Points
1	Bruno Junqueira	2	5	1	1	1	13	7	Ret	1	9	48
2	Nicolas Minassian	1	11	2	Ret	5	1	1	7	4	3	45
3	Mark Webber	3	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	16	4	3	9	16	21
4	Fernando Alonso	9	EX	15	Ret	8	Ret	6	Ret	2	1	17
5	Justin Wilson	8	3	5	Ret	7	9	2	Ret	5	5	16
6	Tomáš Enge	5	13	Ret	Ret	DNQ	5	16	1	17	6	15
7	David Saelens	Ret	8	3	Ret	3	3	Ret	18	11	4	15
8	Darren Manning	12	2	7	Ret	Ret	8	3	13	8	Ret	10
9	Sébastien Bourdais	Ret	10	8	4	Ret	2	9	DNS	14	Ret	9
10	Fabrizio Gollin	6	DNQ	17	2	10	14	DNQ	Ret	18	Ret	7
11	Jamie Davies				8	2					12	6
12	Marc Goossens							10	10	19	2	6
13	Tomas Scheckter							18	2	21	DNS	6
14	Jaime Melo, Jr.	4	16	14	6	DNQ	17	5	8	DNQ	18	6
15	Franck Montagny	Ret	7	6	Ret	6	4	17	Ret	12	Ret	5
16	Enrique Bernoldi	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	23	14	6	6	10	5
17	Ricardo Mauricio	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	3	7	4
18	André Couto	Ret	14	10	3	Ret	21	Ret	17	Ret	11	4
19	Jeffrey van Hooydonk	13	9	4	Ret	9	19	12	Ret	Ret	Ret	3
20	Andrea Piccini	Ret	DNQ	11	9	Ret	12	Ret	4	16	13	3
21	Kevin McGarrity	15	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	15	DNQ	11	Ret	DNQ	3
22	Stéphane Sarrazin	7	19	9	5	Ret	6					3
23	Kristian Kolby	11	12	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	5	20	15	2
24	Soheil Ayari	14	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	22	Ret		13	14	1
25	Christijan Albers	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	DNQ	Ret	8	0
26	Bas Leinders	16	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	10	11	DNQ	7	Ret	0
27	Yves Olivier	DNQ	20	16	7	DNQ	DNQ	13	16	DNQ	17	0
28	Mario Haberfeld	10	17	DNS			11	8	9	15	Ret	0
29	Fabrice Walfisch	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret	18			10	DNQ	0
30	Andreas Scheld	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DSQ	11	DNQ	Ret	12	DNQ		0
31	Ananda Mikola	Ret	15	19	DNQ	Ret	20	15	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	0
32	Viktor Maslov	DNQ	Ret	18	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	Ret	15	DNQ	DNQ	0
–	Marc Hynes				DNQ	Ret	Ret					0
–	Dino Morelli							DNQ	Ret			0
–	Hidetoshi Mitsusada	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ								0
Pos	Driver	IMO	SIL	CAT	NUR	MON	MAG	A1R	HOC	HUN	SPA	Points

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest lap

Notes

All drivers used Lola B99/50 chassis, with Zytek V8 engines, and Avon tyres.
Andreas Scheld was disqualified from second place at the European round (Nürburgring) for using an illegal front wing.

References

2000 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship – Drivers Retrieved on 8 September 2011
2000 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship – Teams Retrieved on 8 September 2011
The dust settles in Formula 3000
FIA International F3000 - Season Review 2000
International Formual 3000 Championship, Autocourse - 2000/2001, page 297

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[1] 2000 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship – Drivers Retrieved on 8 September 2011

[Teams-2] 2000 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship – Teams Retrieved on 8 September 2011

[3] The dust settles in Formula 3000

[4] FIA International F3000 - Season Review 2000

[5] International Formual 3000 Championship, Autocourse - 2000/2001, page 297

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