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 drivers' champion of 2000 was Ryo Michigami driving the No. 16 Castrol Mugen Honda NSX, with Mugen x Dome Project winning the teams' championship. The GT300 class drivers' champion was the No. 26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996 driven by Hideo Fukuyama.
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).
Drivers and teams
GT500
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GT300
| Team | Make | Car | Engine | No. | Drivers | Tyre | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porsche Club Malaysia | Porsche | Porsche 993 RS | Porsche M64/60 3.6 L Turbo F6 | 5 |  Key Soon Yue |
M | NC |
| Ila Ridak |
NC | ||||||
| RE Amemiya Racing | Mazda | Mazda RX-7 | Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor | 7 |  Tetsuya Yamano |
Y | All |
| Haruhiko Matsumoto |
All | ||||||
| Team Daikokuya | Porsche | Porsche 993 RSR | Porsche M64/80 3.8 L F6 | 9 | Tsunefumi Hioki |
D | 1–2, 4–5, 7 |
| Shuroku Sasaki |
1 | ||||||
| Yukihiro Hane |
2, 5 | ||||||
| Akira Watanabe |
4, 7 | ||||||
| 27 | Kota Sasaki |
1 | |||||
| Seigo Nishizawa |
1 | ||||||
| Akira Hirakawa |
5 | ||||||
| Toshihide Hashimura |
5 | ||||||
| Ability Motorsport | Porsche | Porsche 993 GT2 | Porsche M64/82 3.6 L Turbo F6 | 10 | Yasutaka Hinoi |
Y | 1–4 |
| Yutaka Yamagishi |
1–4 | ||||||
| 11 | Kengo Kitaura |
1–5, 7 | |||||
| Hikaru Miyagi |
1–4 | ||||||
| Yasutaka Hinoi |
5–7 | ||||||
| Jun Kinoshita |
6 | ||||||
| Racing Project Bandoh | Toyota | Toyota Celica | Toyota 3S-GE 2.0 L I4 | 19 | Shigekazu Wakisaka |
Y | All |
| Takahiro Hara |
All | ||||||
| TOM'S Spirit | Toyota | Toyota MR-S | Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 | 20 | Masahiro Matsunaga |
Y | 4–7 |
| Kumi Sato |
4–7 | ||||||
| MTCI Racing Team | Porsche | Porsche 986 Boxster | Porsche M64/75 3.6 L F6 | 24 | Kazuyuki Nishizawa |
Y | All |
 Marco Apicella |
All | ||||||
| Team Taisan | Porsche | Porsche 996 GT3-R | Porsche M64/75 3.6 L F6 | 26 | Hideshi Matsuda |
Y | All |
| Hideo Fukuyama |
All | ||||||
| Atsushi Yogo |
NC | ||||||
| 28 | Hiroaki Suga |
All | |||||
| Shinsuke Shibahara |
All | ||||||
| Chrysler | Chrysler Viper GTS-R | Chrysler Viper 8.0 L V10 | 55 | Eiji Yamada |
6–7 | ||
| Takahide Tasaki |
6–7 | ||||||
| Super Autobacs Racing with A'PEX | Toyota | Toyota MR-S | Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 | 31 | Morio Nitta |
Y | All |
| Yudai Igarashi |
1–3 | ||||||
| Shinichi Takagi |
4–7 | ||||||
| Auto Staff Racing | Nissan | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Nissan SR20DET 2.1 L Turbo I4 | 51 | Seiichi Sodeyama |
Y | 2–7 |
| Eiji Yamada |
2–3 | ||||||
| Naofumi Omoto |
4–7 | ||||||
| Team Gaikokuya | Porsche | Porsche 993 Turbo | Porsche M64/60 3.6 L Turbo F6 | 70 | Yoshimi Ishibashi |
D | All |
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1–2, NC, 4, 7 | ||||||
| Nobuo Komiya |
3, 5–6 | ||||||
| SigmaTec Racing Team | Porsche | Porsche 993 GT2 | Porsche M64/82 3.6 L Turbo F6 | 71 | Guts Jyonai |
Y | 2–7 |
| Naohiro Kawano |
2–4 | ||||||
| Masanobu Takenaka |
5–7 | ||||||
| Cusco Racing | Subaru | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 | 77 | Katsuo Kobayashi |
Y | All |
| Tatsuya Tanigawa |
All | ||||||
| Team Daishin | Nissan | Nissan Silvia (S15) | Nissan SR20DET 2.1 L Turbo I4 | 81 | Nobuyuki Ohyagi |
Y | All |
| Takayuki Aoki |
All | ||||||
| KRAFT | Toyota | Toyota Corolla Sprinter Trueno (AE86) | Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 | 86 | Minoru Tanaka |
D | 2–7 |
| Koji Matsuda |
2–7 | ||||||
| Team Mind | Toyota | Toyota Corolla (AE101) | Toyota 3S-GE 2.0 L I4 | 101 | Hiroshi Sasaki |
Y | 4 |
| Mamoru Suzuki |
4 | ||||||
| Team Gainer | Ferrari | Ferrari F355 | Ferrari F129B 3.5 L V8 | 111 | Junichi Ikura |
Y | 1, 2, 4–5, 7 |
| Yusei Maki |
1, 2, 4–5, 7 | ||||||
| Dentaire ProJet Racing | Porsche | Porsche 993 RSR | Porsche M64/80 3.8 L F6 | 360 | Seigo Nishizawa |
Y | 4–5, 7 |
| Kota Sasaki |
4–5, 7 | ||||||
| 910 Racing | Porsche | Porsche 996 GT3 RS | Porsche M64/75 3.6 L F6 | 910 | Hisashi Wada |
Y | All |
| Atsushi Yogo |
All | ||||||
| 911 | Masamitsu Ishihara |
1–4, 7 | |||||
| Jukuchou Sunako |
1–4, 7 | ||||||
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
Drivers' standings
- 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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Teams' standings
For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.[1]
| Rank | Team | No. | MOT |
FUJ |
SUG |
FUJ |
TAI |
MIN |
SUZ |
PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mugen x Dome Project | 16 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 96 |
| 18 | Ret | 1 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 15 | |||
| 2 | Nismo | 1 | 1 | 6 | Ret | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 79 |
| 2 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 11 | Ret | 4 | |||
| 3 | Team Impul | 12 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 66 |
| 4 | Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing | 64 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 16 | Ret | 1 | 58 |
| 5 | Toyota Team Cerumo | 38 | 4 | 3 | 12 | Ret | 1 | 6 | 11 | 48 |
| 6 | Esso Ultron Toyota Team LeMans | 6 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 35 |
| 7 | Toyota Team SARD | 39 | 10 | Ret | 6 | 2 | Ret | 8 | 16 | 25 |
| 8 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 8 | 7 | Ret | 15 | 1 | Ret | Ret | DSQ | 24 |
| 9 | MatsumotoKiyoshi Team TOM'S | 35 | 12 | Ret | 3 | 13 | 9 | Ret | 7 | 18 |
| 10 | Toyota Castrol Team TOM'S | 36 | Ret | 12 | 9 | 5 | 14 | Ret | 9 | 17 |
| 37 | 9 | Ret | 8 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 12 | |||
| 11 | Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft | 100 | Ret | 14 | 10 | 7 | 5 | Ret | DSQ | 13 |
| 11 | Hasemi Motorsports | 3 | 5 | 9 | Ret | 11 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 13 |
| 13 | Endless + Tsuchiya Engineering | 25 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 11 |
| 14 | Team Take One | 30 | Ret | Ret | 13 | 12 | 4 | Ret | Ret | 10 |
| 15 | Hitotsuyama Racing | 21 | 14 | 11 | Ret | Ret | 17 | 10 | Ret | 1 |
| 15 | cdma One Toyota Team Cerumo with Key's | 32 | 11 | Ret | 16 | 19 | 13 | Ret | 10 | 1 |
| - | JLOC | 88 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 18 | 12 | 14 | 0 |
| - | Team Taisan Advan | 55 | 16 | Ret | 18 | PO | 0 | |||
| - | Team Sri Lanka | 15 | DNS | DNR | 0 | |||||
| 69 | DNS | DNQ | ||||||||
| Rank | Team | No. | MOT |
FUJ |
SUG |
FUJ |
TAI |
MIN |
SUZ |
PTS |
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 |
References
- "2000 AUTOBACS CUP ALL JAPAN GT CHAMPIONSHIP - Point Ranking". supergt.net. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
External links
- Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)
- 2000 season results
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