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 [ edit ] Team Make Car Engine 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 Patrick van Schoote 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 [ edit ] Season results [ edit ] Standings [ edit ] GT500 class [ edit ] Drivers' standings [ edit ] Scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1
Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) 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)
Teams' standings [ edit ] 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 19 Ret 1 4 17 10 2 15 2 Nismo 1 1 6 20 Ret 4 3 3 5 79 2 6 2 11 6 11 16 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 20 Ret 1 58 5 Toyota Team Cerumo 38 4 3 12 20 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 21 Ret 6 2 19 Ret 8 16 25 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 8 7 15 Ret 15 1 20 Ret 17 Ret 19 DSQ 24 9 MatsumotoKiyoshi Team TOM'S 35 12 19 Ret 3 13 9 14 Ret 7 18 10 Toyota Castrol Team TOM'S 36 21 Ret 12 9 5 14 19 Ret 9 17 37 9 20 Ret 8 14 12 9 12 11 Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft 100 18 Ret 14 10 7 5 13 Ret 20 DSQ 13 11 Hasemi Motorsports 3 5 9 18 Ret 11 15 11 8 13 13 Endless + Tsuchiya Engineering 25 13 10 14 8 8 7 13 11 14 Team Take One 30 20 Ret 16 Ret 13 12 4 18 Ret 17 Ret 10 15 Hitotsuyama Racing 21 14 11 19 Ret 21 Ret 17 10 18 Ret 1 15 cdma One Toyota Team Cerumo with Key's 32 11 17 Ret 16 19 13 15 Ret 10 1 - JLOC 88 15 13 17 16 18 12 14 0 - Team Taisan Advan 55 16 18 Ret 18 21 PO 0 - Team Sri Lanka 15 29 28 29 DNS 21 DNR 29 0 69 28 21 DNS 21 DNQ 29 28 Rank Team No. MOT FUJ SUG FUJ TAI MIN SUZ PTS
GT300 class (Top 5) [ edit ] Drivers [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]